Reliability Lead

Responsibilities

• Management of the maintenance planning and scheduling processes, through work-order (SAP) prioritization and development of the schedule for maintenance activities.
• The Reliability Lead will drive the improvement of maintenance processes to ensure sustainable asset reliability, including preventative and predictive measures through the analysis of plant maintenance data. Emphasis at any given time will be determined by business priorities, plant performance needs, and asset risk.
• Collaborates with the Technical Assurance group to ensure asset management and inventory accuracy and is responsible for driving related maintenance financial efficiency.
• Affords assistance in the development of the 5-year capital plan
• Manages capital projects
• Accountable for the daily management systems supporting continuous improvement efforts, including defect handling and breakdown elimination (root cause analysis), while supporting equipment centerline and autonomous maintenance activities.
• Participates in the daily shift huddles and direction setting meetings, reporting out on performance metrics and countermeasures.
• Engages with Mechanics & Operators, providing training and coaching to promote ownership of equipment and processes.
• Time is intentionally directed where it will deliver the greatest value, including:
• Assessing and prioritizing reliability opportunities across plants
• Deploying targeted improvements where gaps are greatest
• Partnering with site leadership to build capability and ownership
• Advancing scalable, sustainable maintenance systems
• Adjusting focus as conditions and priorities evolve
• Lead Short Term Maintenance Strategies
• Provides daily direction and leadership to the maintenance planner and hourly resources assigned to areas of responsibility to support high-impact issues enabling systems and capability development across multiple plants.
• Ensures that equipment is performing effectively and efficiently
• Owner of breakdown elimination efforts as the technical resource for the assign area.
• Provides technical guidance for the preventive and predictive maintenance program.
• Lead Long Term Maintenance Strategies
• Establishes and monitors programs for critical equipment analysis and condition monitoring techniques.
• Reviews equipment breakdown history.
• Responsible for analyzing equipment operating data.
• Responsible for auditing PM program
• Works directly with the planner, develops PM schedules and standards for planned maintenance overhaul work, equipment rebuilds and planned downtime events.
• Reports and monitors key performance indicators (Lean Maintenance planning and scheduling)
• Establishes and monitors programs for critical equipment analysis and condition monitoring techniques.
• Promotes and advises on the use and disposition of stock items, stock quantities and MRO productivity opportunities.
• Promotes equipment standardization.
• Makes cost-benefit reviews of the maintenance programs.
• Optimizes maintenance and Hershey Lean strategies.

Relationships and Contacts

• Collaborate with Hershey Maintenance teams.
• Collaborate with third-party commercial maintenance services.
• Collaborate with the factory Maintenance, Operations, Safety, and Quality functions.
• Act as the primary liaison between Factory Maintenance and the corporate Maintenance & Reliability function.
• Advise leadership on suitable service providers for various contracted services.
• Build relationships with Maintenance and Reliability Subject Matter Experts across the Salty Snacks network and the broader Hershey manufacturing network.