Reliability & Maintenance Excellence Lead

Boise Cascade Company; Lena (LA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boise Cascade Company is seeking a reliability-focused professional to lead site reliability initiatives across equipment, processes and facilities. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and continuous improvement in a manufacturing setting.

You will interface with external consultants, manage MRO supplier evaluations, and participate in design reviews to ensure alignment with site reliability standards. This position requires hands-on leadership in reliability engineering and training activities.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a strong commitment to safety, quality, environmental awareness, and continuous process improvement.
• Lead on site growth of reliability concepts and will utilize the Boise Improvement Cycle.
• Interface with external consultants and contractors engaged in reliability initiatives, track and report performance against desired results and communicate with site, region and division leadership as required.
• Implement equipment standards, processes (including operating) and work practices in areas such as: Contamination, Alignment, Looseness, Lubrication and others from the Best-in-Class Pyramid.
• Establish, track and sustain reliability training activities.
• Evaluate technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. This will include acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Participate in all new equipment design to verify coordination with site reliability standards.
• Ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Facilitate failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), RCA/CFA on failures and solution implementation, equipment criticality ranking for the site, building of BOM's on equipment, PM/job plan optimization, center-lining of equipment, and CMMS data integrity among other items.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Job description

Boise Cascade Company is seeking a reliability-focused professional to lead site reliability initiatives across equipment, processes and facilities. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and continuous improvement in a manufacturing setting.

You will interface with external consultants, manage MRO supplier evaluations, and participate in design reviews to ensure alignment with site reliability standards. This position requires hands-on leadership in reliability engineering and training activities.