Technical Expert- Rialibility ( Maintenance)

Cascades; Wagram (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Employee share purchase plan

Group insurance

Telemedicine

Employer-supported retirement plan

Flex-pay allowance

Wellness program

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Cascades is seeking a Technical Reliability Expert to elevate maintenance and reliability maturity across multiple U.S. mills. The role focuses on coaching teams, applying reliability principles, and implementing best practices to strengthen asset performance.

Reporting to the Reliability Excellence team, you will analyze metrics, lead root cause investigations, and drive improvements across sites while traveling up to 50% of the time.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability and asset management.
• Strong knowledge of reliability programs, metrics and maintenance strategies.
• Experience leading root-cause investigations and corrective actions.

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 issues.
• Drive reliability initiatives to improve asset performance and reduce downtime.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance excellence

Continuous improvement

Coaching teams

Root cause analysis

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

Job description

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.

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

• 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

• 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!

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