Join a world-class American food ingredient manufacturer that is expanding rapidly near Phoenix! As Plant Reliability Manager , you will lead the corrective and preventive maintenance programs, asset reliability, outage repairs/upgrades, and site infrastructure functions for this modern high-speed manufacturing complex. Strong leadership is needed to support an established culture of safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement while meeting all financial, quality, and environmental compliance responsibilities.

Our client’s expertise is helping their customers differentiate their commercial brands with healthy and flavorful grain-based foods throughout the U.S. They are experiencing significant growth as their ingredients are being incorporated into a wide range of foods to provide distinctive flavor and nutrition.

Essential Job Functions include:

• Lead, train, and motivate maintenance and reliability personnel to meet/exceed operational efficiency and production goals while maintaining compliance with all safety, health, environmental, and quality standards.
• Provide local ownership of IT, communication/security networks, production and packaging equipment systems, PLC automation, and process troubleshooting.
• Lead the development of SOPs and operator training on new leading-edge “machine learning” packaging technologies.
• Manage allocation of resources and labor deployment for asset reliability and facility grounds maintenance.
• Optimize mechanical and electrical preventive/predictive maintenance activities based on equipment histories, available technologies, and production requirements.
• Lead the development and training of all maintenance and reliability personnel based on performance gaps and organizational capabilities, including (Computer Systems, Network Maintenance, DBC, and e-Maint CMMS systems).
• Develop reports to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to include safety, quality, cost, productivity, yield, and variances.
• Maintain ownership over specified maintenance and plant asset cost centers.
• Ensure effective utilization of the work order management and downtime reporting systems, escalating system reliability issues as needed.
• Drive the asset root cause analysis process focused on repetitive part or system failures to eliminate reoccurrence.
• Prepare the maintenance budget and oversee implementation of all capital projects for the plant.
• Ensure compliance with all safety protocols including local ownership of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) program.
• Direct the storeroom team to achieve established goals in inventory value (turns), cycle count accuracy, and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications include:

• B.S. in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or related technical degree required.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) preferred.
• 10+ years of Maintenance, Operations, or Reliability experience, ideally in high-speed manufacturing.
• 3+ years of Managerial or Supervisory experience in an operations or production environment.
• Strong working knowledge of electro-mechanical equipment systems, HMI devices, AC/DC motors, VFDs, soft starters, conveying systems, packaging equipment, etc.
• Ability to troubleshoot programmable logic controllers (PLC) systems is required, Allen-Bradley and Siemens preferred.
• Experience with CMMS/Asset Care programs is required.
• Continuous Improvement training or certification in Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and/or TPM is preferred.
• Capital equipment installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting experience.
• Strong electrical and mechanical aptitude with the ability to solve complex manufacturing issues.
• Decisive time management and organizational skills to multi-task in a fast-paced production environment.
• Excellent data analysis skills and well-rounded business acumen.
• Independent thinker, creative, imaginative, yet with practical ability to justify project costs.
• Collaborative work style with the ability to both lead and follow.

Compensation for this position includes an attractive base salary commensurate with experience, annual bonus incentives, full medical/dental benefits, matching 401(k), and paid vacation. Relocation assistance is available for outstanding candidates. Our client is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.