Senior Corporate Reliability Manager

About the role

Position Summary: Responsible for leading the development, deployment, and sustainment of Ventura Foods' maintenance and reliability strategy across the manufacturing network. Provides enterprise leadership for reliability governance, asset management, work execution management, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, maintenance performance metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives. Partners with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Site Leadership teams to improve asset reliability, reduce equipment-related losses, build organizational capability, and establish standardized maintenance and reliability practices that drive asset management excellence and long-term business performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Reliability Strategy and Governance: establish and sustain enterprise reliability strategy and governance model; provide leadership for reliability standards, performance expectations, cross-functional alignment; drive reliability awareness, facilitate governance reviews, lead overall strategy, partner with site leadership to improve asset performance, maintenance effectiveness, operational reliability; oversee preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs, including audit processes that verify maintenance execution quality and effectiveness across the network.
• Drive Reliability Program Deployment and Technical Execution: lead development, implementation, and sustainment of enterprise reliability programs to improve equipment performance and reduce operational risk; deploy work order management processes, asset management strategies, preventive maintenance optimization, loss elimination programs, and other reliability best practices; partner with site maintenance teams for successful execution and standardization across all manufacturing locations; provide direction for MRO, spare parts optimization, storeroom management standards, and inventory strategies supporting equipment reliability while controlling operational costs.
• Develop Reliability Capability and Organizational Effectiveness: build organizational capability by developing maintenance and reliability talent; lead technical training programs, reliability workshops, skills matrix deployment, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning; ensure teams have knowledge, tools, and competencies to support current and future reliability objectives while fostering a culture of continuous learning and asset management excellence.
• Manage Reliability Performance and Continuous Improvement: develop and manage reliability performance measurement systems to drive continuous improvement and operational results; establish and maintain reliability scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, audits, and reporting processes; analyze performance trends, identify improvement opportunities, facilitate corrective actions, ensure reliability initiatives deliver measurable improvements in equipment uptime, maintenance effectiveness, and business performance; establish and govern standardized root cause analysis (RCA), failure analysis, and corrective action processes to eliminate chronic equipment failures and drive sustainable performance improvements.
• Provide Maintenance Systems and Process Leadership: provide leadership for maintenance business processes, systems, and standards that support enterprise reliability objectives; oversee CMMS utilization, maintenance data integrity, standardized maintenance work processes, contractor management practices, and continuous improvement activities; ensure maintenance systems and processes are effectively utilized to support decision-making, process discipline, operational efficiency, and long-term reliability success.
• Travel: 20% - 50% of time.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of progressive maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment.
• Experience implementing maintenance and reliability systems, including CMMS, work order management, asset hierarchy, maintenance planning and scheduling, and reliability performance management.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or equivalent reliability certification.
• Experience leading enterprise or multi-site reliability initiatives.

Skills

• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving organizational change through influence, coaching, and stakeholder engagement.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, including preventive maintenance (PM),