Maintenance Reliability Lead
PepsiCo · Wytheville, VA · 4 days ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
Responsibilities
- Elevate and address safety risks promptly and consistently.
- Own the full equipment lifecycle, including preventive and predictive maintenance, down day planning, overhauls, and rebuild execution.
- Implement reliability strategies that improve equipment performance and extend asset life.
- Ensure production equipment is operated correctly and consistently; provide coaching to manufacturing team members as needed.
- Support the Plant Line Pair structure and promote team and line ownership.
- Coordinate with Maintenance Technicians and line leads to drive operational improvements.
- Gather feedback from Maintenance Team Leaders to optimize asset management and reliability plans.
- Develop the maintenance team to address daily operational issues and achieve short- and long-term goals.
- Lead change effectively while minimizing impact to people and operations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve operational issues and support plant performance.
- Motivate team members to achieve plan goals.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred (engineering or maintenance discipline).
- Leverage Lean Six Sigma experience, demonstrated through completion of a major improvement project.
- Have 5+ years of operations or maintenance experience; 2+ years of supervisory experience preferred.
- Have mechanical equipment maintenance experience required.
- Understand PLC programming preferred.
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
- Show demonstrated success in a results-oriented, fast-paced environment.
- Have indefinite right to work in the United States.
- Display strong leadership skills with the ability to drive change.
- Show excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Show effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills.
- Show ability to lead a team-based approach to decision-making.