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Reliability Lead

United States, Independence 88600.00 - 133000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted April 16, 2026
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The Reliability Lead plays a key role in driving long‑term asset health by coordinating maintenance planning, reliability activities, and daily execution. This role supports the Sr. Maintenance Manager by providing direct leadership to the Maintenance & Building Planners, while also guiding maintenance technicians within the assigned area. The Reliability Lead is responsible for ensuring effective planning, execution, and continuous improvement of all maintenance and reliability activities. This includes ensuring maintenance tasks are completed to standard, resources are properly allocated, and issues are escalated promptly to maintain safe, efficient, and reliable operations.

Job Responsibility

  • Continuously strive to increase the efficiency and reliability of equipment in their area of focus
  • Communicate with all shifts of the maintenance team to ensure a consistent message and consistent application of all company policies, programs, rules and regulations
  • Support maintenance team in troubleshooting, finding/procuring parts, or escalating issues as required
  • Carries out periodic audits to ensure depth of work order material is adequate and works with lead and planner to ensure gaps are addressed
  • Ensure maintenance, quality and safety audits are carried out by the team to ensure compliance with internal requirements
  • Work with the maintenance & buildings planner to track breakdowns, identify chronic issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable countermeasures
  • Review short and medium-term plans for equipment maintenance with the maintenance manager and planners and operations team. Develop long term plans with input from the managers, supervisors and operations team and ensure execution of the plans
  • Working as a team with Supervisors, Maintenance team members, and Operations to plan, procure and document activities for the enhancement of machines in the assigned area
  • Engage vendors and OEMs for technical support, project execution, reliability improvements, and complex troubleshooting
  • Participate in safety and quality reviews
  • ensure corrective actions are implemented promptly and effectively
  • Support the development and execution of reliability‑centered maintenance strategies, including predictive and preventive maintenance improvements

Requirements

  • 4 year degree in a technical field
  • at least two (2) years of experience as a maintenance supervisor/coordinator in fast paced manufacturing environment
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to coordinate and communicate with teams working different shifts across a 24/7 schedule
  • Experience leading a team of maintenance technicians toward a common goal
  • Must be capable of working independently and in a team environment
  • Experience making reliability/maintenance decisions to meet needs
  • Proven track record of implementing improvement ideas
  • Experience using a CMMS system
  • Controls/Automation experience with a strong preference to Allen Bradley controls

Nice to have

  • 4+ years of experience as a maintenance supervisor/coordinator in fast paced manufacturing environment
  • Foods industry experience is preferred

What we offer

  • Bonus eligible
  • Long-Term Incentive (LTI) eligible
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