Corporate Director - TPM & Reliability

The Clemens Food Group • Hatfield, PA

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About The Position

Why Join Corporate Director of TPM & Reliability? Clemens Food Group is building the next generation of enterprise reliability leadership. This role offers the opportunity to define how reliability engineering, maintenance strategy, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) are implemented across our production network. This is not a role built around maintaining an existing program. This is an opportunity to create and scale a reliability strategy that will shape the future of asset performance across our facilities. You will work directly with plant leaders, trades teams, and reliability engineers to drive operational improvement, reduce downtime, and build a culture of ownership around equipment reliability. The Impact You’ll Make You will design and lead a network-wide reliability strategy that strengthens asset performance and operational resilience. Your work will directly influence equipment uptime, production stability, and the long-term efficiency of our manufacturing operations. This role also plays a critical part in developing the next generation of reliability engineers and maintenance leaders across the company. What You’ll Do Lead the enterprise deployment and maturity progression of the 8 pillars of TPM. Build and execute a multi-year TPM and reliability roadmap across all facilities. Develop standardized reliability practices including RCM, FMEA/FMECA, and RCFA. Improve OEE performance and reduce unplanned downtime across the network. Lead development of predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance strategies. Establish reliability KPIs, including MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule adherence, and maintenance cost metrics. Support capital investment decisions through asset lifecycle analysis and reliability modeling. Coach reliability engineers and plant maintenance leaders on structured problem solving. Partner with production, safety, quality, and maintenance leaders to improve operational performance. What Makes This Role Exciting? Opportunity to design and shape enterprise reliability strategy, not simply operate within an existing system. Direct influence on operational performance across a network of production facilities. Work alongside experienced plant leaders and technical teams, solving real operational challenges. Balance strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving on the production floor. Lead initiatives that deliver measurable financial and operational results. What Success Looks Like in the First Year Within the first year, the Corporate Director of TPM & Reliability will establish credibility across the organization and begin delivering measurable operational impact. Success in this role includes: Refreshing and evolving the enterprise TPM five-year roadmap. Building strong working relationships with plant maintenance leaders and the reliability engineering team. Establishing clear priorities for reliability initiatives that support operational and financial goals. Launching targeted reliability projects that contribute toward $2M in operational savings generated by the reliability team. Becoming a trusted partner that plant leaders actively seek out to solve complex operational problems. Demonstrating the ability to balance urgent operational issues with long-term reliability strategy. What We’re Looking For We are seeking a reliability leader who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to influence and coach across multiple sites. This role requires someone who understands the theory behind reliability engineering and is equally comfortable solving problems directly with trades teams and operations leaders. Skills & Mindset Engineering or technical degree, mechanical, electrical, refrigeration, or industrial engineering. Extensive experience leading TPM deployment in a multi-site manufacturing environment. Strong background in reliability methodologies including RCM, FMEA/FMECA, and RCFA. Proven leadership in predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance programs. 15+ years as a professional engineer and reliability professional 10+ years of leading and supporting technical teams across a multi-site organization Experience influencing cross-functional teams without direct operational authority. Lean Six Sigma certification or equivalent operational excellence training preferred. Strong communication skills with the ability to coach technical teams and influence senior leaders. Hands-on leadership style with the willingness to work directly alongside plant teams. This Role Is Not For You If: You prefer to design strategies but not participate in solving operational problems directly with plant teams. You prioritize theory over real-world application of reliability and TPM methods. You want to operate independently from operations teams rather than partnering closely with maintenance and production leaders. You want to inherit a structured playbook rather than build and evolve a reliability strategy. Your Future at Clemens Food Group You will help shape the future of reliability engineering at Clemens Food Group. This role provides the opportunity to define how TPM, maintenance strategy, and asset lifecycle management evolve across our operations. If you are motivated by building systems, developing people, and driving measurable operational impact, this role offers a platform to make a lasting difference across the organization. Application Note: Clemens Food Group is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.

Requirements

• Engineering or technical degree, mechanical, electrical, refrigeration, or industrial engineering.
• Extensive experience leading TPM deployment in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Strong background in reliability methodologies including RCM, FMEA/FMECA, and RCFA.
• Proven leadership in predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance programs.
• 15+ years as a professional engineer and reliability professional
• 10+ years of leading and supporting technical teams across a multi-site organization
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams without direct operational authority.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coach technical teams and influence senior leaders.
• Hands-on leadership style with the willingness to work directly alongside plant teams.

Nice To Haves

• Lean Six Sigma certification or equivalent operational excellence training preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise deployment and maturity progression of the 8 pillars of TPM.
• Build and execute a multi-year TPM and reliability roadmap across all facilities.
• Develop standardized reliability practices including RCM, FMEA/FMECA, and RCFA.
• Improve OEE performance and reduce unplanned downtime across the network.
• Lead development of predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance strategies.
• Establish reliability KPIs, including MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule adherence, and maintenance cost metrics.
• Support capital investment decisions through asset lifecycle analysis and reliability modeling.
• Coach reliability engineers and plant maintenance leaders on structured problem solving.
• Partner with production, safety, quality, and maintenance leaders to improve operational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director