Manager II Maintenance and Reliability

About the role

The Reliability Manager manages all aspects of the mill’s reliability improvement efforts. This is a leadership role responsible for providing direction, guidance, and support for direct and indirect reports. The primary responsibilities include ensuring the safety, efficiency, productivity, engagement, and overall effectiveness of the reliability improvement workforce.

Leadership

• Manages the site reliability team, including third-party reliability resources.
• Aligns the reliability team with challenging roles, responsibilities, and expectations that support the mill’s strategies.
• Provides a positive role model for all mill personnel in safety, quality, accountability, efficiency, and productivity.
• Provides guidance, instruction, and mentoring for the maintenance and engineering teams.
• Mentors and supports asset owners to ensure reliability strategies are effective.
• Interjects appropriately with maintenance prioritization, planning, and execution to ensure reliable asset performance.
• Engages with the mill’s major repair activities and outages to ensure repair plans and strategies are detailed, adhered to, executed with precision, and deliver expected results.
• Actively engaged in the capital planning process to ensure plans support reliability and efficiency.
• Recommends improvements in the capital planning process that support reliability.

Data-driven decision making

• Owns the processes necessary to ensure accurate equipment data is collected, maintained, and accessible for analyses.
• Ensures key metrics are in place and used to drive resource deployment for the greatest impact.
• Owns key reliability metrics and reviews them on routine cadences.
• Develops action plans from key data to develop and/or improve strategies.
• Routinely reviews reliability metrics with leaders and focuses on areas of improvement.

Reliability culture

• Promotes and leads a culture of reliability and ensures the organization understands expectations.
• Defines what reliability is and aligns all parts of the organization.
• Promotes the desired culture of “fix it right, the first time”; ensures systems are in place and utilized.
• Drives precision practices throughout the production and maintenance organization.
• Uses best practices reliability tools to improve reliability.

Safety

• Aligns and supports Clearwater Paper Life Saving Rules.
• Ensures direct reports are provided a safe working environment, understand key risks associated with managed work, know how to mitigate risks, and ensures mitigation controls work.
• Interfaces closely with safety and health staff to elevate mill safety performance.

Core competencies

• Strong equipment aptitude – mechanical/electrical/instrument knowledge and skills.
• Ability to effectively interface with all levels of the mill operation, customers, product development leaders, and senior company leaders.
• Strong business acumen and curiosity in looking for opportunities to improve current methods.
• Leverages data and analytics and the ability to present them for leader decision-making.
• Strategic mindset with tactical hands-on ability.
• Ability to develop detailed plans and timelines.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred.
• Minimum eight years’ experience in maintenance, engineering, project management, and/or production management required, or 15 years equivalent practical experience in maintenance and reliability.
• Functional understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance programs, work order systems, RCFA, FMEA, maintenance work control processes, and world-class maintenance and reliability systems is desired.
• Previous experience using a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) preferred (e.g., JD Edwards, SAP).
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, and Outlook.

Other requirements

• Ability to work in a high-speed manufacturing environment with sustained exposure to high-frequency noises, multiple hours standing, walking on concrete surfaces, heat, cold, and mill environments.
• Ability to wear and abide by Personal Protective Equipment required in the mill environment.
• Ability to climb stairs, ladders, and scaffolding.
• Potential exposure to hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing process.
• Potential for off-hour support including nights and weekends.