Senior Reliability Strategy Lead - Multi-Site Automation

Exol; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Exol is seeking a senior Reliability Engineering leader to own and scale reliability strategy for automated fulfillment and material handling across sites. You will establish enterprise reliability standards, identify critical assets, and lead root cause analyses to deliver permanent fixes.

Partner with Automation/Engineering to influence design and define KPI reporting within CMMS. Ideal candidate has 12+ years in reliability or asset performance, experience with robotics/AS/RS, and a track

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience required.
• 12+ years in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, or asset performance roles.
• Experience with automated or highly mechanized environments (robotics, AS/RS, conveyors, AGVs).
• Experience influencing multi-site operations or enterprise programs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the reliability strategy for automated fulfillment and material handling operations.
• Establish enterprise reliability standards and performance expectations across sites.
• Identify critical assets and failure risks, lead root cause analysis and fixes.
• Design risk-based maintenance aligned to business impact.
• Partner with Automation and Engineering teams to influence system design for reliability.
• Define reliability data standards, KPIs, and reporting within CMMS.
• Analyze downtime, performance trends, and cost drivers to support staffing, capital, and vendor decisions.
• Support new site launches by ensuring reliability readiness and clean handoff to operations.
• Standardize learnings to enable repeatable deployments at scale.
• Lead OEM and vendor partnerships with governance and escalation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, IT, Safety, Finance, and Supply Chain to align reliability priorities.
• Communicate risks, trends, and improvement opportunities clearly to senior leadership.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Decision making

Leadership by influence

Executive communication

Cross functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Reliability, or related field)

Tools

CMMS

Performance reporting tools

Job description

Exol is seeking a senior Reliability Engineering leader to own and scale reliability strategy for automated fulfillment and material handling across sites. You will establish enterprise reliability standards, identify critical assets, and lead root cause analyses to deliver permanent fixes.

Partner with Automation/Engineering to influence design and define KPI reporting within CMMS. Ideal candidate has 12+ years in reliability or asset performance, experience with robotics/AS/RS, and a track