Site Reliability & Engineering Manager

Jack Link's Protein Snacks•Minong, WI

23h•Onsite

About The Position

The Site Reliability & Engineering Manager is the senior technical leader for the Minong facility, responsible for maintenance, reliability, facilities, utilities, and site engineering support. The role provides strategic leadership to ensure safe, dependable, compliant, and cost-effective operations while supporting long-term plant performance and growth. It focuses on building a strong reliability culture through Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), predictive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, disciplined CMMS execution, and development of a high-performing technical team across a multi-shift operation. The manager is the primary site partner to Corporate Engineering, supporting capital planning and project execution, commissioning, startup readiness, maintenance integration, documentation, training, spare parts planning, and long-term asset ownership. This is a people-management role with direct reports. The listed annual salary is $135,000–$140,000, with a generous relocation package, benefits, and bonus potential.

Requirements

At least 8 years of progressive maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing leadership experience.
At least 5 years managing maintenance, engineering, reliability, or technical teams in a multi-shift manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated success with RCM, predictive maintenance, TPM, CMMS, asset management, capital projects, and cross-functional leadership.
Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, automation, utility, and industrial control systems.
Ability to interpret schematics, drawings, P&IDs, OEM documentation, and technical data.
Strong understanding of asset management, reliability engineering, root-cause analysis, FMEA, and failure-elimination methods.
Proven ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold technical teams accountable.
Strong conflict-resolution, decision-making, and reliability-culture-building skills.
Strong budgeting, financial management, contractor/vendor management, and project-execution capabilities.
Ability to manage competing priorities, lead cross-functional teams, and influence without direct authority.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information for technical and non-technical audiences.
Strategic, analytical, and problem-solving mindset, with the ability to align reliability initiatives to business objectives.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Maintenance Management, Operations Management, or a related technical field; equivalent technical training and progressive leadership experience will be considered.
Experience in food manufacturing or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop the maintenance, reliability, and engineering organization, including supervisors, planners, coordinators, technicians, and technical specialists.
Build a culture focused on safety, food safety, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement, and partner with other functions as a member of the Plant Leadership Team.
Develop and execute the site reliability strategy to improve uptime, asset performance, and total cost of ownership.
Lead RCM, equipment criticality assessments, FMEA, root-cause failure analysis, corrective actions, and asset lifecycle planning.
Expand predictive and condition-based maintenance programs, including vibration, thermography, ultrasound, and lubrication technologies.
Reduce reactive maintenance and increase planned, preventive, and predictive work.
Lead maintenance operations for packaging, processing, smokehouses, utilities, facilities, and other plant assets.
Own and improve the Somax CMMS, including work order execution, planning, scheduling, closure, and documentation.
Drive schedule compliance, backlog management, PM completion, maintenance productivity, and standardization of task lists, job plans, bills of materials, and asset records.
Serve as the facility’s primary engineering and technical resource; evaluate equipment performance, process constraints, utility systems, and manufacturing opportunities.
Lead technical problem-solving for complex equipment failures, chronic reliability issues, equipment selection, system modifications, and facility upgrades.
Support new technologies, automation solutions, productivity initiatives, and plant optimization efforts.
Partner with Corporate Engineering on site initiatives, capital planning, and project prioritization; coordinate site resources for installations, facility upgrades, utility improvements, and capital projects.
Ensure project designs address food safety, operator safety, reliability, maintainability, sanitation, and operational requirements.
Lead site commissioning, startup, equipment acceptance, operational readiness, and transition to sustainable asset ownership.
Develop maintenance strategies, spare-parts plans, PM programs, training, and technical documentation for new assets.
Lead reliability and maintenance of facility infrastructure, buildings, grounds, and utility systems, including compressed air, boilers, refrigeration, wastewater, HVAC, and electrical distribution.
Develop long-term facility and infrastructure improvement plans and coordinate vendor and contractor activities.
Ensure maintenance and engineering activities comply with USDA, HACCP, GMP, SSOP, OSHA, LOTO, machine-guarding, environmental, and company food-safety requirements.
Promote sanitary maintenance practices, hygienic equipment design, and elimination of maintenance-related food-safety risks; support audits, inspections, and corrective actions with Food Safety & Quality.
Develop and manage annual maintenance, reliability, facility, and utility budgets; monitor expenditures and identify cost-saving opportunities.
Support capital-budget development, project justification, and effective use of maintenance resources.
Manage contractor selection, performance, safety compliance, service quality, and adherence to site requirements.
Oversee spare-parts strategy, storeroom optimization, supplier partnerships, and vendor agreements.
Establish and manage maintenance and reliability KPIs, including uptime, schedule compliance, PM completion, backlog health, MTBF, MTTR, repeat failures, predictive-maintenance compliance, costs, and contractor performance.
Use data analytics and reliability metrics to identify opportunities and lead cross-functional improvement initiatives.