Reliability Manager - Clinton, IA

ADM; Clinton (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM in Clinton, IA seeks a Maintenance Reliability Manager to lead change and drive step changes in plant reliability. You will champion proactive maintenance, guide asset strategies, and support the plant maintenance team to improve safety, cost, and efficiency.

The role requires 10+ years in R&M activities, 5+ years of direct reports management, and strong leadership in a manufacturing setting. ADM offers opportunities to apply best practices across CMMS and reliability standards.

Qualifications

• Electrical or mechanical experience in a manufacturing maintenance and engineering environment.
• Proficient in predictive and preventive maintenance.
• Knowledge of Root Cause Analysis, Cause and Effect or FMEA methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead multifunctional teams.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with food safety and process safety management.
• Tenacity in pursuing objectives to completion correctly and on time.
• Strong team player with the ability to proactively change plant culture.

Responsibilities

• Deploy the equipment reliability strategy.
• Supports development of asset management strategy that aligns with business needs.
• Supports the maintenance organization with clear roles and responsibilities.
• Supports plant maintenance team to optimize plant resources to improve efficiencies through reliability processes.
• Ensure a deep understanding of current standard methodologies (reliability elements) in the reliability and maintenance industry and deploy those agreed upon standards.
• Define and drive reliability metrics and KPI’s in support of operational goals while improving safety, quality, delivery and cost.
• Utilizes downtime and cost data to prioritize improvement opportunities around equipment reliability and organization efficiency.
• Provide technical support to the plant maintenance department.
• Identify continuous improvement projects and develop business cases in collaboration with plant maintenance team.
• Effective usage of maintenance planning, scheduling and execution processes using ADM’s chosen CMMS.
• Sets priorities and expectations for all direct reports.
• Responsible for the growth and development of all direct reports. Ensures that coaching and mentoring towards development goals is completed quarterly.
• Guide the development and completion of Losses to Action (L2A) projects to drive down unscheduled downtime.
• Main point of contact for all RCM initiatives that are being deployed at assigned scope area (individual site or multi-sites).

Skills

Electrical/Mechanical experience

Predictive & preventive maintenance

RCA / FMEA knowledge

Lead multifunctional teams

Project management

English communication

Food safety familiarity

Tenacity to complete

Team player / culture change

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related

Job description

Maintenance Reliability Manager – Clinton, IA

This is an exempt level position.

Position Summary:

The Reliability Manager is a key leader in building and leading change at the Clinton facility. They are considered a leader in the operations management team and are responsible for driving step change improvement of plant reliability while also championing the continued move from reactive to proactive maintenance. They will apply their knowledge and experience to ensure continuous improvement to optimize the company's physical assets and maintenance and reliability processes and strategies.

Job Responsibilities

• Deploy the equipment reliability strategy
• Supports development of asset management strategy that aligns with business needs
• Supports the maintenance organization with clear roles and responsibilities.
• Supports plant maintenance team to optimize plant resources to improve efficiencies through reliability processes.
• Ensure a deep understanding of current standard methodologies (reliability elements) in the reliability and maintenance industry and deploy those agreed upon standards
• Define and drive reliability metrics and KPI’s in support of operational goals while improving safety, quality, delivery and cost
• Utilizes downtime and cost data to prioritize improvement opportunities around equipment reliability and organization efficiency
• Provide technical support to the plant maintenance department
• Identify continuous improvement projects and develop business cases in collaboration with plant maintenance team
• Effective usage of maintenance planning, scheduling and execution processes using ADM’s chosen computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Sets priorities and expectations for all direct reports
• Responsible for the growth and development of all direct reports. Ensures that coaching and mentoring towards development goals is completed quarterly
• Guide the development and completion of Losses to Action (L2A) projects to drive down unscheduled downtime
• Main point of contact for all RCM initiatives that are being deployed at assigned scope area (individual site or multi-sites)

Required Skills

• Electrical or mechanical experience in a manufacturing maintenance and engineering environment
• Proficient in predictive and preventive maintenance
• Knowledge of Root Cause Analysis, Cause and Effect or FMEA methodologies
• Proven ability to lead multifunctional teams
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills (Including the ability to present information to a formal group)
• Familiarity with food safety and process safety management
• Tenacity in pursuing objectives to completion correctly and on time
• Strong team player with the ability to proactively change plant culture

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related with 10+ years of experience in R&M activities

Required Experience

• 5+ years experience managing direct reports

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.