Asset Reliability Lead

Kerry•Byesville, OH

1d•$102,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lead Kerry’s Beverage Business Network asset reliability program. This role reports to the Business Network Director of Engineering and provides dotted line support to business network maintenance teams. It also supports Kerry North America asset reliability initiatives. The role involves supporting multi-site Beverage business network locations in Seattle, WA; Byesville, OH; Owatonna, MN, and Ste Claire, Quebec, with potential for expansion. The position is preferred to be based in one of the listed US sites but can be remote for the right candidate. Travel will be approximately 50% or more, including international travel between the United States and Canada.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial or similar)
10+ years of progressive experience in a maintenance leadership role and/or a reliability engineering role.
Comfortable working on the factory floor and as part of a decentralized regional team.

Nice To Haves

CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional) or equivalent certification.
Food, consumer goods, chemical, or pharmaceutical manufacturing experience preferred

Responsibilities

Drive maintenance key performance indicators (KPI’s) – equipment downtime, preventive maintenance (PM), urgent work, labor hours recorded, cycle counting, etc.
Provide support to manufacturing sites to develop, optimize and implement industry maintenance standards such as PM programs, spare parts management, stock room management
Collaborate with sites to define asset criticality, critical spares, and reliability maintenance strategies
Develop networking and knowledge sharing opportunities within the business network and also with other Kerry maintenance groups.
Support analysis of equipment and systems failures, using problem solving and continuous improvement tools such as RCA and DMAIC
Support and develop site capability building with assessment and evaluation of site maintenance staff, training and knowledge transfer to site maintenance teams
Support growth of digital automation platforms (i.e. MaintainX, EPM SAC, Power BI)
Perform Reliability Projects and Project reliability engineering assistance? (i.e. Inventory, ALM reviews, PM library growth, WBS, URS, timeline reviews, identify and assist with site capacity needs and resource definition)
Provide interim support for key maintenance site roles (possible)
Learn and train all site roles within Kerry 1KPS playbook standards
Kerry 1KPS implementation of CMMS practices focused on engineering standards