Director of Maintenance & Reliability

PRINSCO • Prinsburg, MN

8d • $150,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Prinsco is seeking a Director of Maintenance & Reliability to build and advance a company-wide reliability program across its manufacturing network. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on moving the organization from reactive maintenance toward proactive, predictive, and data-driven practices. The director will create the strategy, systems, standards, technical capability, and accountability needed to improve manufacturing assets and support sustainable execution across nine U.S. production plants and 34 production lines. The role reports to the COO and combines organization-wide strategy with regular engagement on production floors alongside plant and maintenance teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in industrial maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing leadership.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems, controls, PLC/HMI environments, material handling, utilities, and plant infrastructure.
• Demonstrated success implementing preventative and predictive maintenance programs, maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS discipline, root cause analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance practices.
• Experience with maintenance budgets, MRO spend, vendors, contractors, capital projects, and cross-functional efforts.
• Ability to build programs, establish standards and KPIs, develop people, and create sustainable execution across multiple locations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in plastics, extrusion, corrugated HDPE pipe, building products, packaging, continuous manufacturing, or a similar industrial manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial technology, maintenance management, operations management, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience will be considered.
• CMRP, CRL, Six Sigma, Lean, or similar maintenance/reliability training.

Responsibilities

• Build and advance the maintenance reliability strategy, roadmap, standards, systems, training, and governance.
• Develop preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance practices to improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Improve maintenance planning and scheduling discipline, including work orders, backlog management, PM compliance, shutdown planning, and coordination with Operations.
• Establish standards for critical spare parts, MRO inventory, contractors, vendors, and maintenance best practices.
• Lead root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, A3, and corrective-action efforts to eliminate recurring equipment failures.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Safety, Quality, Purchasing, and Finance to align reliability priorities with business needs.
• Build maintenance-team capability through training, skills development, apprenticeship support, coaching, leadership development, and succession planning.
• Improve equipment availability, plant uptime, maintenance cost, PM effectiveness, emergency work, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• High-impact leadership opportunity to shape the maintenance and reliability strategy.
• Opportunity to build the reliability roadmap, establish standards, strengthen systems, and develop technical capability.
• Meaningful partnership across the business.
• Hands-on manufacturing environment focused on developing people, solving problems, and improving operations.

What This Job Offers

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