Technical Expert- Reliability ( Maintenance)

Cascades; Wagram (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Employee stock purchase plan

Benefits package

Flex-pay allowance

Wellness program

Employee assistance program

Collaborative workplace

Job summary

Cascades seeks a Technical Reliability Expert to lead maintenance and reliability maturity across U.S. mills. The role centers on coaching teams, implementing best practices, and strengthening asset performance with data-driven decisions.

Based in the Eastern or Central United States with remote flexibility and up to 50% travel, you will partner with maintenance managers to develop improvement plans, monitor metrics, and drive preventive and predictive maintenance programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability and asset management.
• Experience improving reliability culture across manufacturing operations.
• Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with maintenance managers across multiple U.S. mills to improve reliability performance.
• Develop and support site-specific reliability improvement plans.
• Build and monitor 90-day action plans focused on asset reliability.
• Analyze reliability metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead root cause analyses for recurring or high-impact reliability issues.
• Promote effective utilization of CMMS tools and maintenance planning processes.
• Coach reliability leaders and maintenance teams on best practices.
• Travel approximately 50% of the time across U.S. operations.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance excellence

Asset management

Continuous improvement

Root cause analysis

Coaching

English communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Technical Expert- Reliability ( Maintenance)

Language Job Description Technical Expert- Reliability ( Maintenance) City: Wagram Province/State: North Carolina Posting Start Date: 10/29/26

Welcome to Cascades!

Are you a reliability professional who enjoys influencing change across multiple manufacturing sites? Do you thrive on turning data into action, coaching teams, and improving asset performance? This opportunity offers the chance to make a measurable impact across several U.S. operations while working alongside experienced leaders committed to operational excellence.

Join Jonathan Morissette’s team as a Technical Reliability Expert in the Eastern or Central United States (remote with travel) and help build a more sustainable future.

What's in it for you

Taking care of our people is in our nature, so you'll enjoy:

• A competitive annual salary based on experience
• Profit sharing and an employee share purchase plan
• A full range of benefits: group insurance, telemedicine, and an employer-supported retirement plan
• An annual Flex-pay allowance to spend on goods and services of your choice
• A yearly wellness program and employee assistance program
• A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace

Your Role

As Technical Reliability Expert, you'll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential.

This role is focused on elevating maintenance and reliability maturity across the organization through coaching, technical expertise and implementation of reliability excellence principles. Working closely with maintenance leaders and plant teams, you will help strengthen asset performance, reduce downtime and support the deployment of reliability best practices across the network.

Your scope includes:

• Partner with maintenance managers across multiple U.S. mills to improve reliability performance.
• Develop and support site-specific reliability improvement plans.
• Build and monitor 90-day action plans focused on asset reliability.
• Analyze reliability metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead root cause analyses for recurring or high-impact reliability issues.
• Drive reliability excellence initiatives aimed at improving asset performance and reducing equipment downtime.
• Assess maintenance maturity and support the implementation of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Promote effective utilization of CMMS tools, maintenance planning processes and asset management best practices.
• Coach reliability leaders and maintenance teams on best practices.
• Support the rollout and sustainability of reliability initiatives.
• Promote the adoption of standard reliability processes across sites.
• Coordinate activities between mills and the Reliability Excellence team.
• Share knowledge and successful practices across the network.
• Track progress and ensure reliability initiatives deliver expected results.
• Travel approximately 50% of the time across U.S. operations.

What you bring

You're a natural fit for Technical Reliability Expert if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability and asset management.
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering, maintenance excellence, asset management and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience improving reliability culture across manufacturing operations.
• Strong knowledge of reliability programs, metrics, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience developing and implementing reliability strategies and action plans.
• Ability to analyze complex operational situations and recommend practical solutions.
• Experience leading root cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Strong coaching, influence, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work effectively with teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• A degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Manufacturing industry experience; pulp and paper experience is an asset but not required.
• Previous consulting experience or experience deploying reliability solutions across multiple sites is considered an asset.

If you bring as much heart to who you are as to what you do, we can't wait to meet you!

Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably.

This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization. Artificial intelligence may be used at certain stages of our recruitment process t enhance efficiency and the candidate experience.

Discover Cascades

Since 1964, Cascades has been driving innovation in the manufacturing sector by offering sustainable, innovative, and value-creating solutions in packaging, hygiene, and recycling.

At Cascades, we respect nature. And above all, we respect our 9,000 employees. With 60facilities across North America, we offer a committed and diverse environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to the company’s success.

You are our greatest strength!