Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, Reliability & Maintenance

Responsibilities

• Own overall equipment reliability, asset health, and physical system integrity—not just response activity.
• Design and sustain maintenance and reliability systems where uptime and stability are the default.
• Reduce equipment-driven variability and chronic downtime through root cause elimination and engineered solutions.
• Establish reliability standards, lifecycle strategies, and engineering discipline across production assets.
• Ensure manufacturing engineering and maintenance exist to enable flow, throughput, quality, and safety.
• Apply Operations Science principles (Factory Physics, Theory of Constraints), lean system design, reliability engineering, and statistical thinking to improve system performance.
• Engineer solutions that reduce complexity, eliminate waste, and prevent downstream disruption.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, and Technical Project Management to align current-state stability with future-state capability.
• Lead preventive, predictive, and planned maintenance strategies that prioritize system stability over reactive firefighting.
• Establish clear standards, workflows, and accountability for maintenance execution.
• Use data and KPIs to guide decisions related to downtime, asset utilization, and maintenance effectiveness.
• Model ERMCO’s POWER Values: People, Ownership, Winning, Excellence, and Relentless Determination.
• Operate with Compassionate Accountability—setting clear expectations while supporting people through disciplined systems.
• Demonstrate conscious leadership during instability by remaining calm, avoiding reactivity, and asking system-level questions before adding labor, parts, or complexity.
• Ensure safety, dignity, and psychological safety are non-negotiable operating conditions.
• Lead improvement through Toyota Kata and PDCA experimentation: understand direction, grasp current condition, define target conditions, identify obstacles, and run disciplined experiments.
• Embed learning routines that build problem-solving capability within engineering and maintenance teams.
• Partner cross-functionally to institutionalize improvements and prevent regression.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field required.
• Progressive leadership experience in manufacturing engineering, reliability engineering, and/or maintenance leadership within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience designing and sustaining reliable production systems—not just responding to failures.
• Strong working knowledge of: Reliability engineering and asset lifecycle management, Preventive and predictive maintenance systems, Lean manufacturing and flow-based system design, Statistical thinking, root cause analysis, and data-driven decision making, Familiarity with Factory Physics, Theory of Constraints, Six Sigma concepts, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and instability with clarity, composure, and systems thinking.
• Comfortable holding high standards while supporting people through disciplined, well-designed processes.
• Strong collaboration skills across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Project Management functions.