Reliability Planning Manager

Primary Responsibility:

The role of the Reliability Planner is to improve asset availability and reliability by anticipating and eliminating potential downtime through planning and coordination of labor, parts/materials and equipment access on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis for assigned region. S/he leads reliability engineering planning, leads asset condition monitoring, optimizes asset reliability through maintenance data analysis, and supports Maintenance Excellence initiatives across the region. This position provides support for maintenance management programs, metric reporting, training, and performs data collection, data analysis, program audits, and supports implementation of maintenance and reliability improvement plans.

She/he leads the reporting and analysis of predictive maintenance (PdM) and reliability centered maintenance (RCM) processes that report asset health to proactively identify issues prior to failure, and monitors assets within across the region to ensure continuous improvement. 

Assists regional leadership with development of site specific Capital Expense planning leveraging EAM system to identify Bad Actors, Life Cycle Costing, and End of Useful Life.

What You'll Do:

• Plan and schedule maintenance activities across region for assigned sites, with an emphasis on weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
• Evaluates the needs for replacements parts and critical spare parts inventories for assigned sites and supports the identification of optimal stock levels, min/max levels and obsolete parts
• Working with Engineering & Maintenance Managers (EMM), coordinate, review, and improve the Engineering & Maintenance Reliability score
• Maintains a working schedule of on/off days, and non-operating days to maximize equipment availability of available technician labor hours and tracks technician utilization 
• Ensures technician available labor hours are 100% scheduled
• Maintains appropriate records, ensures data integrity to permit meaningful analysis, tracks KPI’s as identified, identifies / performs analysis for improvement, collaborates with SMEs to identify critical failure modes, develops PMs / PdMs to mitigate risks, and generates facility and district maintenance performance reports 
• Reviews all work order feedback and updates PMs accordingly 
• Responsible for creating and maintaining comprehensive Preventive Maintenance (PM) plans in the CMMS and ensures all PM routines are consistently reviewed and improved upon 
• Develop measurements for tracking the success and timeliness of maintenance activities such as PM work order completion rates, Planned/Scheduled work order completion rates, etc.
• Support parts and vendor setup in CMMS 
• Work directly with outside contractors/partners on providing PMs service to relevant equipment.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to enhance equipment reliability through acting as administrator for PdM and Condition Monitoring programs, supporting Maintenance Diagnostics, leading the Bad Actor program, driving Comparative Analysis, facilitating PM Optimizations, tracking Tactical Improvement Plans, and proactively identifying potential equipment failures
• Responsible for developing and maintaining an updated library of OEM manuals
• Ensure Equipment setup/deactivation, task lists, and site maintenance plans
• Performs data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and explanatory analysis to identify risks and issues with asset reliability and develops actionable recommendations
• Train associates on proper usage of CMMS system and Reliability Maintenance 
• Assist EMM with tracking of technician training and development 
• Other duties as required

What Experience and Education You Need :

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field and one year experience or High school diploma / GED and three years’ experience facilities maintenance support experience
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in reliability and predictive/preventive maintenance
• Experience in data analytics and reliability centered maintenance preferred
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Business Analytics Tools 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Experience with CMMS, SAP or Oracle preferred
• Full understanding of Preventative Maintenance Programs

What Could Set You Apart:

• Have industrial maintenance background which may include hydraulics, electrical, building maintenance, industrial ammonia refrigeration system, and basic troubleshooting skills
• Ability to interpret and analyze data
• Ability to fully leverage a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Knowledge of principles involved in Preventative/Predictive Maintenance
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to travel 20%+ as required

Physical Requirements :

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
• May require travel by automobile and airplane
• May require visiting facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing
• May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds
• Requires the use of various electronic tools
• Occasionally works evenings or weekends in order to complete objectives or to attend meetings
• Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes
• Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management


Work Environment : 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What We Offer :

Our associates know the answer to the question What’s in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.


Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.
EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.