Director, Maintenance Reliability & Work Management

ConAgra Foods•Omaha, NE

26d•$135,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, the Director will lead the enterprise strategy, standards, capability, and continuous improvement for maintenance work management across Conagra manufacturing sites. The role establishes and sustains a consistent operating system for identifying, prioritizing, planning, scheduling, executing, closing, and improving proactive and reactive maintenance work. It partners with plant leadership and corporate functions to improve asset availability, maintenance productivity, schedule predictability, data quality, and sustainable business performance. The Director will guide enterprise implementation and sustainment, govern work-order processes and supporting data, and set performance-management, documentation, training, and change-management frameworks. The role directs business strategy and requirements for SAP Plant Maintenance and related digital capabilities, while building organizational capability and leading complex, multi-site initiatives. It also works with Engineering and project leaders to embed maintenance and reliability requirements into capital planning and asset handover. The position involves approximately 50% travel to manufacturing sites, with occasional additional travel based on business and site-support needs. Working hours may be adjusted to support plant operations, shutdowns, or implementations. The role may require visits to manufacturing facilities, where walking, climbing stairs or ladders, kneeling, repetitive tasks, and lifting or carrying materials may apply. Facilities may have large moving equipment, high noise levels, and varying temperatures.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Reliability, Industrial Technology, Operations Management, or a related technical field, or an associate's degree with equivalent relevant experience.
10 or more years of maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing experience, including leadership responsibility for maintenance planning, scheduling, work management, or asset reliability programs.
Progressive maintenance and reliability experience in a manufacturing environment, including maintenance planning, scheduling, supervision, or management.
Demonstrated success leading maintenance, reliability, and work management programs in manufacturing, industrial, or consumer packaged goods environments, including implementing and sustaining enterprise standards and best practices across multiple manufacturing sites.
Expert knowledge of maintenance work management, including work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, backlog management, shutdowns, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement.
Strong working knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance or a comparable enterprise asset management system.
Experience with equipment master data, Maintenance, Repair, and Operations materials management, project-to-maintenance turnover, key performance indicator definition, performance analysis, and practical improvement planning.
Experience developing technical documentation and training, coaching plant teams, and leading organizational change.
Advanced Excel and data-analysis skills.
Experience influencing across functions and organizational levels, managing competing priorities, and leading complex initiatives without relying solely on direct authority.
Strong written, verbal, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and executive-communication skills.
Collaborative, customer-focused leadership style with strong problem-solving skills and credibility from the plant floor through senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

Advanced experience with master data, bills of material, task lists, maintenance plans, materials, scheduling, statuses, revisions, and deadline monitoring.
Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, and PowerPoint.
Experience in food, consumer packaged goods, process, or high-speed packaging manufacturing.
Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician, Project Management Professional, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable professional certification.

Responsibilities

Lead the enterprise Maintenance Work Management strategy, including its vision, standards, implementation roadmap, role clarity, and governance model.
Influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners to advance proactive and reactive maintenance practices and drive the organizational, process, system, and behavioral changes required for enterprise adoption and accountability.
Establish the enterprise operating framework for work identification and control, prioritization, job planning, materials readiness, scheduling, execution, closeout, backlog management, shutdown coordination, and continuous improvement.
Guide network-wide implementation and sustainment by aligning plant and corporate leaders on maturity priorities, improvement roadmaps, adoption expectations, and performance outcomes.
Establish enterprise requirements and decision rights across the work-order lifecycle, from request and prioritization through planning, execution, feedback, completion, and closure.
Shape enterprise job-planning expectations that improve safety, labor productivity, materials readiness, execution quality, equipment documentation, and post-job learning.
Drive scheduling and backlog governance across the manufacturing network to improve capacity visibility, schedule compliance, shutdown readiness, and prioritization of critical work.
Direct enterprise business strategy and requirements for SAP Plant Maintenance and related digital capabilities, partnering with Information Technology, functional teams, data governance, and site stakeholders to prioritize and sustain high-value functionality, reporting, workflows, and enhancements.
Provide governance for equipment master data, functional-location structures, bills of material, task lists, maintenance plans, work centers, statuses, coding, and related records.
Define the enterprise performance-management approach for work management using key performance indicators and insights to influence priorities, direct support, assess progress, and inform leadership decisions.
Establish the enterprise framework for controlled process documentation, standard work, training materials, system-utilization standards, and implementation playbooks.
Build organizational capability and a sustainable talent pipeline through role-based development, leadership forums, cross-site communities of practice, coaching, and targeted technical support.
Lead enterprise change strategy for major deployments by aligning stakeholders, communications, capability building, adoption measures, and sustainment routines.
Influence Engineering and project leaders to embed maintenance and reliability requirements into capital planning and help ensure new and modified assets transition with complete strategies, data, documentation, training, and planned-work requirements.
Align work management strategy with Maintenance, Repair, and Operations, reliability engineering, asset care, lubrication, technician capability, safety, quality, and Manufacturing Excellence priorities.
Lead a portfolio of complex, multi-site initiatives, providing strategic direction and influencing site teams, functional partners, contractors, and consulting resources to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Promote a culture of safety, inclusion, engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement while modeling Conagra values across the manufacturing network.
Travel approximately 50% to manufacturing sites, with occasional additional travel based on business and site-support needs, and adjust working hours when needed to support plant operations, shutdowns, or implementations.