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About the Role

Build and lead a company-wide maintenance reliability organization to enable consistent, high-performing asset management across all manufacturing sites. Act as a strategic partner to Operations, Supply Chain, and Capital Planning, ensuring reliability efforts translate into sustained productivity, lower maintenance and capital spend, and improved operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and lead a new enterprise Maintenance Reliability organization, defining its mission, structure, governance, and operating cadence
• Establish and deploy a standardized reliability operating model that supports Maintenance Managers with consistent tools, processes, and expectations across all sites
• Develop and govern enterprise asset strategies for critical and common equipment, including preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance standards
• Define and implement enterprise rebuild and life cycle strategies for high-value assets to optimize total cost of ownership, reduce unplanned downtime, and defer capital replacement
• Partner with site Maintenance Managers to improve maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution discipline, including work management, shutdown planning, and backlog control
• Own enterprise CMMS strategy and standards, ensuring data integrity, consistent asset hierarchies, and effective use of maintenance data to drive decisions
• Lead the development and deployment of maintenance and reliability KPIs and use them to prioritize improvement efforts
• Provide reliability leadership and technical oversight for capital projects, equipment rebuilds, and major overhauls, ensuring effective early management and rapid stabilization
• Build enterprise capability through training, coaching, and mentoring of Maintenance Managers, planners, and reliability resources
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter leader for precision maintenance, root cause failure analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance practice
• Partner with Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to ensure reliability initiatives deliver measurable cost reduction, improved throughput, and capital efficiency
• Ensure all maintenance reliability practices support food safety, quality, environmental, and workplace safety requirements
• Stay current on emerging reliability technologies, predictive maintenance methods, and asset management best practices, selectively integrating those that deliver business value
• Support food safety program, quality standards, and legality of manufactured products
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in maintenance, reliability, or engineering leadership within manufacturing environments
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site reliability programs or enterprise asset management initiatives
• Experience in food manufacturing or regulated manufacturing environments preferred
• Strong understanding of manufacturing performance metrics and maintenance cost drivers
• Deep expertise in maintenance and reliability methodologies, including RCM, TPM, precision maintenance, root cause analysis, and predictive maintenance
• Strong working knowledge of CMMS systems, asset hierarchies, maintenance planning and scheduling, and spare parts strategies
• Proven ability to develop and execute equipment rebuild and life cycle strategies at scale
• Proven ability to build organizations and systems from the ground up
• Strong enterprise-level influence skills with the ability to lead through matrixed relationships rather than direct authority
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and a bias for action and results
• Effective communicator capable of engaging frontline maintenance teams, plant leadership, and executive stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving manufacturing environment with competing priorities

Skills

• Maintenance
• Reliability
• Engineering Leadership
• Asset Management
• Manufacturing
• CMMS
• RCM
• TPM
• Precision Maintenance
• Root Cause Analysis
• Predictive Maintenance
• Planning
• Scheduling
• Influence
• Analytical Skills
• Communication

Location

• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Hawaii
• Illinois
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Nevada
• New Jersey
• New York
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• Washington
• Washington, D.C.

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years of progressive experience in maintenance, reliability, or engineering leadership

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered

Salary/Compensations

• $170,089 to $212,610 annually

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Annual bonus eligibility
• Incentive and recognition programs
• 401k contributions

About the Company

• At Rise Baking Company, our people are our finest ingredient.