Senior Corporate Reliability Manager

Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of Ventura Foods' maintenance and reliability strategy across the manufacturing network. Provide enterprise leadership for reliability governance, asset management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Will Do

Lead enterprise reliability strategy and governance, drive reliability program deployment and technical execution, develop reliability capability and organizational effectiveness, and manage reliability performance and continuous improvement.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 8-10 years of progressive maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment, with a strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to interpret reliability, maintenance, and operational performance data to drive business decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
• Minimum of 8-10 years of progressive maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or equivalent reliability certification
• Experience leading enterprise or multi-site reliability initiatives
• 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), predictive maintenance (PdM), root cause analysis (RCA), reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), and asset management practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Knowledge of food manufacturing regulatory requirements, food safety programs, process safety management (PSM), and environmental compliance requirements
• Excellent computer skills in up-to-date software such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Project and technical documentation
• Working knowledge of CMMS systems, asset hierarchy development, bill of materials (BOM) management, and maintenance planning and scheduling processes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret reliability, maintenance, and operational performance data to drive business decisions
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and sustain standardized maintenance and reliability processes across multiple manufacturing locations
• Ability to work with plant management personnel, outside vendors and suppliers to identify, install, start-up and optimize process improvements and facility improvements
• In-depth knowledge of plant process operations with the ability to identify processing, mechanical, electrical and structural problems and inefficiencies
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and initiatives simultaneously
• Must have a background in wastewater management, safety and ammonia refrigeration

Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision coverage beginning on the first day for eligible employees
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
• Employee Appreciation Events
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Annual bonus (based on the incentive program terms and conditions)