Maintenance and Reliability Systems Lead

fairlife•New York, MI

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance & Reliability Systems Lead leads the development, deployment, and standardization of reliability and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) across fairlife’s manufacturing network. The role’s first priority is leading CMMS implementation for a major capital project, ensuring asset data, equipment hierarchies, bills of materials, spare parts, preventive maintenance programs, reporting, and user training are in place before startup. Working with Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, Operations, and Supply Chain, this role establishes a standardized maintenance management framework and data governance processes to support consistent asset management, work management, and system use across sites. Aligned with ISO 55000 principles, the position builds scalable standards for asset lifecycle management, maintenance excellence, and future CMMS deployments. The position is based in Coopersville, Michigan, or Webster, New York, reports to the Sr Director of Plant Capital Engineering, and requires 25–30% travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline.
At least 5 years of experience in maintenance and CMMS master data, including platform deployment on large greenfield or brownfield manufacturing projects; food and dairy experience preferred.
Strong knowledge of ISO 55000 and related asset management standards.
Project management and work management skills, including planning, scheduling, backlog management, leading meetings, and reporting results to stakeholders.
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with project managers, OEMs, contractors, mechanics, and leadership, and to assess training needs for mechanics and operators.
Strong mechanical and electrical aptitude.
Working knowledge of reliability strategies, including asset criticality, preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance, RCM/FMEA, and preventive maintenance optimization.
Experience with failure analysis and spare parts strategy, including failure coding, bad actor analysis, root cause analysis, and critical spares planning.
Ability to work with databases and build digital reports on reliability KPIs such as MTBF, MTTR, and preventive maintenance compliance, as well as parts usage and spare parts inventories.
Ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment and balance shifting priorities by business impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience with CMMS systems such as MVPOne, D365 Dynoway, or SAP.
Manufacturing experience in food and dairy.

Responsibilities

Serve as the CMMS subject matter expert and lead system development and deployment, including asset hierarchy, equipment master data, bills of materials, Item Master, preventive maintenance programs, and maintenance workflows.
Partner with OEMs, engineering firms, contractors, and project teams to collect, validate, and organize equipment specifications, drawings, and maintenance requirements.
Establish data governance processes and guide teams collecting, cleansing, validating, and loading equipment, spare parts, and maintenance data.
Standardize asset structures, criticality rankings, maintenance plans, spare parts strategies, reliability practices, and preventive/predictive maintenance programs using network-wide best practices.
Build scalable processes that can be repeated for future implementations, expansions, and upgrades.
Work with Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering, and Supply Chain to develop site maintenance strategies aligned with corporate maintenance excellence standards.
Monitor and improve planning, scheduling, execution, backlog management, and preventive maintenance optimization.
Partner with maintenance leadership on CMMS KPIs, dashboards, and reports that drive performance.
Develop training, SOPs, and work instructions, and coach planners, mechanics, supervisors, and site leadership to promote consistent CMMS process adoption.
Ensure maintenance activities, procedures, and system configurations comply with safety, regulatory, and environmental requirements, including LOTO.