Continuous Process Improvement Sr Manager - 27
About The Position
The Maintenance & Reliability Excellence Coach drives the implementation and sustainability of maintenance best practices, asset care systems, reliability engineering processes, and digital maintenance capabilities across multiple manufacturing sites. The role partners with plant leadership, maintenance teams, and storeroom organizations to improve asset reliability, reduce reactive maintenance, optimize maintenance spending, and enhance manufacturing performance through standardized processes, training, and coaching. The position requires deep expertise in Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), MRO storeroom management, Reliability Engineering, and Asset Care systems. The workplace is hybrid, with three days in the Alpharetta office and 50–70% travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Technology, or a related field, or 15+ years of relevant experience.
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing maintenance, reliability engineering, maintenance systems, or maintenance leadership within a plant or manufacturing environment.
- Strong expertise in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Asset Care, RCM, and TPM/Operational Excellence methodologies.
- Advanced working knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), including work management, preventive maintenance, equipment hierarchies, maintenance planning, backlog management, and data governance.
- Experience with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and MRO/storeroom operations, including spare-parts optimization, inventory accuracy, critical spares, and material master data.
- Ability to coach and influence cross-functional teams and leaders without direct authority, with strong facilitation, training, communication, continuous improvement, and data-driven problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead deployment of maintenance and reliability best practices across multiple manufacturing facilities to improve equipment performance and uptime.
- Coach plant and maintenance teams on Asset Care, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, RCM, TPM, and Work Management.
- Reduce reactive maintenance by strengthening planning, scheduling, defect elimination, preventive maintenance, and equipment reliability programs.
- Serve as an SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) subject matter expert, driving consistent processes for work orders, preventive maintenance, planning, scheduling, backlog management, and shutdown/turnaround planning.
- Improve SAP PM data quality and governance, including equipment hierarchies, functional locations, failure coding, and maintenance of master data.
- Provide expertise in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and MRO storeroom processes, including spare parts optimization, inventory accuracy, cycle counting, and critical spare identification.
- Partner with procurement and supply chain teams to improve spare-parts availability, reduce obsolete inventory, and optimize MRO inventory investment.
- Conduct maintenance assessments, GEMBA reviews, and process health checks to identify performance gaps and develop corrective action plans with site leadership.
- Build organizational capability through training, workshops, standardized work processes, documentation, coaching, and sharing best practices across manufacturing sites.
- Monitor and analyze maintenance and reliability KPIs, including PM compliance, schedule compliance, planned versus reactive work, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost, equipment uptime, spare-parts availability, and inventory accuracy, to identify improvement and cost-reduction opportunities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits supporting wellbeing and flexibility.
- Robust health plans.
- Market-leading 401(k) program with company match.
- Flexible time off benefits, including half-day summer Fridays depending on location.
- Inclusive fertility and adoption benefits.
- Eligibility to participate in Clorox incentive plans, subject to applicable plan documents and policies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
