Maintenance & Reliability Manager for Chemicals and Natural Resources
About The Position
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. This role involves leading delivery of maintenance and reliability engagements across one or more of the Chemicals and Natural Resources sub-industries, owning workstreams and day-to-day client relationships. The role requires assessing client reliability and asset management programs, defining future-state improvements, and building business cases to justify them. It also involves applying reliability practices in the field, deploying EAM and APM solutions, and translating operational data into actionable recommendations. The role supports origination efforts, manages engagement financials and quality, and leads and develops a team, driving workforce adoption and change management.
Requirements
- 5+ years of maintenance, reliability, and asset management experience in Chemicals and Natural Resources Industry and/or consulting.
- 5+ years leading delivery of consulting or industry programs, with a track record of measurable results.
- 2+ years of Industry context in one or more of: basic and petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, metals & mining, forest products, and building materials.
- 1+ years of Hands-on command of reliability practices: RCM, criticality analysis, FMEA, RCA, and work management.
Nice To Haves
- Consulting experience with a top-tier firm.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience)
- Experience deploying or operating EAM and/or APM platforms (e.g., SAP, Maximo, IFS, AVEVA, GE, AspenTech).
- Experience managing workstream financials, scope, and quality.
- Ability to build business cases and present recommendations to operations and plant leadership.
- Full-lifecycle EAM or APM implementation experience.
- Familiarity with relevant standards and codes (e.g., ISO 55000, ISO 14224, API, SMRP body of knowledge).
- Experience applying AI or advanced analytics to maintenance and reliability.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
- MBA or graduate degree.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of maintenance and reliability engagements across one or more of the five sub-industries, owning workstreams and day-to-day client relationships.
- Assess client reliability and asset management programs, define future-state improvements, and build the business cases (cost/benefit, KPIs, resource plans) that justify them.
- Apply reliability practices in the field: RCM, criticality ranking, FMEA, RCA, and work management (identification, planning, scheduling, execution).
- Deploy EAM and APM solutions and connect them to measurable reliability outcomes, working across process and technology.
- Translate asset and operational data into recommendations that operations and plant leaders can act on.
- Support origination: contribute to proposals, value propositions, and sales campaigns, and grow into an origination role.
- Manage engagement financials and quality for your workstreams, including forecasting and scope.
- Lead and develop consultants and engineers on your team, and drive workforce adoption and change management as part of delivery.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- bonus opportunities
- paid holidays
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
