Reliability Manager - Southeast

Sibelco Glass NAM; Kansas; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sibelco is seeking a Reliability Manager to partner with plant maintenance, production, and leadership across our North America processing facilities. The role focuses on reliability measurement, maintenance planning, and implementation of Lean tools to improve safety, uptime, and efficiency.

Travel will be 60-70%, with emphasis on capital projects coordination, lifecycle cost optimization, and continuous improvement to deliver solid financial performance for the site cluster.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with plant maintenance, production and leadership to develop and implement reliability measurement tools for production processes.
• Provide engineering support for maintenance planning/supervision, operations and maintenance of North America processing plants.
• Develop and implement programmatic methods to ensure safe operation, high reliability/availability and cost-effective maintenance.
• Lead and execute reliability excellence/maintenance programs and lean manufacturing tools to empower teams and improve financial performance.
• Identify, evaluate, and apply predictive maintenance technologies and RCA investigations to ensure effective actions.

Job description

Reliability Manager - Southeast Location: Wilson At Sibelco

We advance life through materials. For over 150 years, we’ve been a trusted leader in sourcing, transforming, and distributing specialty industrial minerals. Our work powers progress across industries as diverse as glass, ceramics, construction, coatings, polymers, and water purification. Beyond our materials, we’re proud of our commitment to sustainability, innovation, and empowering people from all walks of life to thrive and make a meaningful impact.

Are We the Perfect Match? At Sibelco, we believe building a successful career is a two-way journey. We’re looking for individuals who share our values and vision, just as much as you’re seeking a company that aligns with your aspirations. Together, we can shape the future.

Job Description

At Sibelco, we advance life through materials. For over 150 years, we’ve been a trusted leader in sourcing, transforming, and distributing specialty industrial minerals. Our work powers progress across industries as diverse as glass, ceramics, construction, coatings, polymers, and water purification. Beyond our materials, we’re proud of our commitment to sustainability, innovation, and empowering people from all walks of life to thrive and make a meaningful impact.

Your Impact in This Role

The reliability engineer will work closely with Sibelco plant maintenance, production and leadership teams to develop and utilize effective tools and systems for measuring reliability of our production process. This position is responsible for providing engineering support for maintenance planning/supervision, operation and maintenance of Sibelco North America Processing plants, developing and implementing programmatic methods to ensure safe operation and high equipment reliability/availability, cost effective maintenance, and continuous improvement culture. This role includes applying lean maintenance strategies and predictive technologies while optimizing a system’s operational performance, life cycle cost, and payback. This role will act as primary liaison for capital projects with the Capital implementation team for all cluster plants. 60-70% travel time. Maintain and promote a safe working environment for all employees. Achieve safety and health objectives. Leads and is responsible for the execution of reliability excellence/maintenance program. Writes and maintains reliability maintenance strategy documents. Work with Maintenance Planners/Supervisors to implement Lean manufacturing tools to empower employees and facilitate growth to improve financial performance. Responsible for ranking the criticality of the assets under their care, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and for defining the proactive maintenance approaches that are cost-beneficial to the business. Identifies and implements predictive maintenance technologies. Manages predictive maintenance equipment. Performs/supports operational event and equipment failure investigations to ensure that the root cause/causal factors have been identified, corrective actions prescribed, and follow-up monitoring conducted as applicable, to determine effectiveness.

• Conducts program and system/equipment audits on a periodic and as needed basis. Audits will generally be focused on safety, risk analysis, regulatory compliance, maintenance effectiveness, cost savings, and energy conservation.
• Participates in the planning, design review, value management and construction document development of new facilities and renovations.
• Supports utility distribution, master planning, and business continuity planning.
• Supports commissioning activities for all upgrade, renovation, and construction projects which may include, but is not limited to, PM job plans, reviews for maintainability, critical spares, documentation, etc.
• Develop and maintain new “Key Performance Indicators