Reliability Manager - Southeast

Sibelco; Wilson, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sibelco in Wilson, NC seeks a Reliability Manager to lead reliability excellence across North America processing plants. You will implement lean maintenance, predictive maintenance technologies, and RCMS approaches to maximize equipment availability and safety.

Travel 60-70% and partner with maintenance planners, operations and leadership to drive continuous improvement and KPI tracking.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in reliability/maintenance engineering within manufacturing or heavy industry.
• Ability to develop and implement predictive maintenance strategies.
• Strong collaboration with maintenance planners, supervisors, and operations.
• Travel 60–70% to support multiple plants and projects.
• Leads reliability excellence programs and KPI development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with plant maintenance, production and leadership to measure and improve reliability of the production process.
• Provide engineering support for maintenance planning, supervision, and operation.
• Develop and implement safe operation and high equipment reliability initiatives.
• Lead and maintain reliability maintenance strategy documents and KPIs.
• Apply Lean maintenance tools to empower teams and reduce costs.
• Rank asset criticality using RCMA approaches and define proactive maintenance actions.
• Identify and implement predictive maintenance technologies and monitor outcomes.
• Investigate root causes of equipment failures and verify corrective actions.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Lean maintenance

Predictive maintenance

Root cause analysis

Capital project liaison

Tools

Reliability Centered Maintenance

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