Director of Maintenance & Reliability

La-Z-Boy•Monroe, TN

About The Position

This position is responsible for developing and executing La-Z-Boy’s long-term maintenance, reliability, and asset health strategy across a multi-site manufacturing and corporate footprint: five U.S. manufacturing facilities, two manufacturing locations in Mexico, and corporate headquarters. The Director will build a multi-year roadmap to improve asset health, equipment reliability, facility performance, and maintenance capability while ensuring effective day-to-day maintenance execution. The role combines strategic planning with hands-on engagement in manufacturing facilities and requires experience in Maintenance, Engineering, and Manufacturing Operations, including transforming reactive maintenance organizations toward disciplined preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered practices. The position partners with Operations, Engineering, EHS, Continuous Improvement, Supply Chain, and plant leadership to ensure assets and facilities are safe, reliable, capable, and positioned to support long-term growth. It leads the enterprise maintenance, reliability, and asset health strategy across eight locations, influences plant managers and senior operations leaders in a decentralized environment, and provides asset-condition and reliability data to inform capital investment, modernization, operating performance, safety, productivity, quality, and cost decisions. The role may have up to 10 direct reports and requires regular travel between U.S. and Mexico facilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline with 10+ years of experience, or equivalent.
Demonstrated experience developing and executing multi-year maintenance and asset reliability strategies.
Strong background in manufacturing operations and maintenance or engineering leadership, with demonstrated success improving uptime and reducing unplanned downtime.
Strong experience with preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance.
Demonstrated knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, equipment criticality, Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS systems, MRO and critical spare parts, and capital planning and asset lifecycle management.
Experience building and developing maintenance organizations and technical talent.
Demonstrated ability to influence plant managers and senior operations leaders across a decentralized, multi-site organization.
Ability to travel regularly between U.S. and Mexico facilities.

Nice To Haves

5+ years leading maintenance or reliability organizations in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
Master’s degree in Engineering, Operations, or Business.
Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or similar reliability certification.
Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement experience and TPM or autonomous maintenance experience.
Experience implementing or significantly improving an enterprise CMMS.
Experience establishing predictive technologies such as vibration analysis, infrared thermography, oil analysis, ultrasound, and condition monitoring.
Experience developing equipment lifecycle and capital replacement strategies.
Experience working in both U.S. and Mexico manufacturing environments.
Spanish-language capability.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a 3–5 year enterprise maintenance and asset health strategy across U.S. and Mexico operations.
Establish asset strategies based on equipment criticality, condition, lifecycle, operational risk, and business impact.
Create a roadmap to transition from reactive maintenance toward planned, preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance.
Lead day-to-day maintenance performance across five U.S. manufacturing locations, two Mexico manufacturing locations, and corporate headquarters.
Establish a disciplined operating system for maintenance planning, scheduling, execution, performance review, Root Cause Analysis, failure analysis, and defect elimination.
Improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs, eliminate ineffective preventive-maintenance activities, and reduce chronic and repetitive equipment failures.
Partner with Engineering and Operations on equipment specifications, selection, commissioning, installation, startup, maintainability, standardization, lifecycle cost, modernization, and capital planning.
Develop maintenance and reliability leaders, planners, supervisors, engineers, and skilled trades personnel.
Establish enterprise standards, roles, competency expectations, career paths, training, succession plans, and knowledge-sharing practices.
Build a culture in which Operations and Maintenance jointly own equipment reliability and asset health, including effective autonomous maintenance practices.
Develop an enterprise MRO and critical spare-parts strategy based on equipment criticality, lead time, failure risk, and operational impact.
Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to improve vendor strategy, inventory effectiveness, standardization, and total maintenance cost.
Ensure maintenance work is performed safely and in compliance with company standards and applicable regulations, including electrical safety, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, contractor management, and safe-work permitting.
Travel regularly between U.S. and Mexico facilities.