Reliability Improvement Manager

Position Title: 

Reliability Improvement Manager

Pay Rate:

$122,000 – $178,000

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

Physical Location:

Mansfield Mill

1202 Highway 509

Mansfield, LA 71104

318-872-5100

The Job You Will Perform:

The Reliability Improvement Manager reports to the Maintenance and Reliability Business Unit Manager. The RIM has responsibility for Mill Reliability improvement, asset integrity, and preservation. This includes management of the Equipment Care Engineering teams and Predictive Group. This manager ensures processes are in place that enable the Mill Maintenance organization to preserve the assets and these assets provide safe, legal, reliable, and efficient operation.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership that ensures a safe, productive, engaged organization.
• Ensures individuals in the reliability organization and any of their contractors follow established mill safety rules and procedures.
• Ensures engineers are knowledgeable of laws, recognized standards and company policies that govern mill equipment safety and operation and the applicable sections are followed.
• Adequate inspection and repair processes are documented and accomplished so that mill equipment conforms to standards, company policies and governing laws/regulation to ensure safe, legal and reliable operation. 
• Improves mill reliability through the disciplined application of the company GMS Elements.  Primary to this role is Equipment Care (BC, PM, PdM), Facility Preservation, Lubrication, Precision Practices (MPM, IEPM, EPD), RCFA, and Reliability Certification.
• Ensures equipment maintenance strategies are developed and kept current based on most recent knowledge.
• Selection, development, and performance management of the individuals in the reliability improvement organization to meet objectives.
• Establishes and maintains a recruitment and development strategy for reliability engineers.
• Shares responsibility with Mill Capital Manager for building and maintaining a 5-year maintenance capital plan that meets both mill and company objectives.
• Shares responsibility with area managers and area maintenance managers for maintenance budget planning and control.
• Support capital team in development and implementation of capital projects with technical support from engineers.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with other mill teams, business staff, company subject matter experts and any other people or organizations that may contribute to the achievement of objectives. 

The Skills You Will Bring:

A bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering is preferred with 10+ years of operations, maintenance, and/or engineering experience in a paper manufacturing environment. Qualified candidates have a high level of understanding of reliability principles, are knowledgeable in CMMS systems, competent in using Lean tools such as RCFA. Good communication skills (written and verbal) are required.

Key Competencies:

• Influencing Others
• Motivating Others
• Action Oriented
• Managing and Measuring Work
• Organizing
• Drive for Results
• Command Skills

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

• Paid time off including Vacation and Holidays
• Retirement and 401k Matching Program
• Medical & Dental
• Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement)
• Life & Disability Insurance

The Career You Will Build:

• Leadership training
• Promotional opportunities