Technical Expert- Reliability ( Maintenance)

Cascades; Wagram (NC); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; 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 Inc. is seeking a Technical Reliability Expert to elevate maintenance and reliability maturity across our U.S. mills.

You will coach maintenance leaders, develop improvement plans, and implement reliability best practices to reduce downtime and strengthen asset performance. This remote role (Eastern or Central U.S.) involves travel across sites to deploy strategies, monitor progress, and share learnings with the Reliability Excellence team, enabling a more sustainable manufacturing

Qualifications

• 10+ years in maintenance, reliability and asset management.
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering and continuous improvement.
• Experience improving reliability culture across manufacturing operations.
• Knowledge of reliability programs, metrics, preventive & predictive maintenance.
• 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 in English.
• Engineering degree or equivalent.
• Manufacturing industry experience; pulp and paper asset experience is a plus.
• Consulting experience deploying reliability solutions across multiple sites is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Elevate maintenance and reliability maturity across the organization.
• Coach reliability leaders and maintenance teams across sites.
• Develop site-specific reliability improvement plans for multiple mills.
• 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.
• Promote preventive and predictive maintenance strategies and CMMS utilization.
• Share knowledge and best practices across the network.
• Travel ~50% across U.S. operations.

Skills

Maintenance & reliability

Asset management

Continuous improvement

Root cause analysis

Coaching & influence

English communication

Team collaboration

Cross-site coordination

Problem solving

Strategic planning

Maintenance planning

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Technical Expert- Reliability ( Maintenance) (37733)

Requisition ID37733-Posted10/29/2026-CTG Head office US (1501)-Tissue Engineering-Paper Machines (TIS_ING_MAP)-Cascades - Wagram (CGT_US_037)-Cascades – Wagram-Production and Manufacturing

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.