Sr. Maintenance Reliability Manager

WHO WE ARE

At Ghirardelli, we're on a mission to become a one billion dollar brand and beyond. We want to be every consumer's first choice of premium chocolate, and we believe we can do that through our products and the way we do business, which are all inspired by our brand commitment to Making Life A Bite Better. We are a company committed to both personal and professional growth and believe that each employee contributes directly to Ghirardelli's growth and success.

As the Senior Manager - Maintenance and Reliability, you will be the leader to not only define the company strategy and vision for our Maintenance & Reliability journey to excellence, but also lead the execution and implementation of the standards, policies, processes, and tools to drive performance.

Provide direct leadership to the reliability team an indirect leadership to all the maintenance technicians and supervisors, up to 40 people, as well as driving maintenance and reliability across the supply chain including the co-pack facility.

Drives the efficient use of the maintenance budget, +$12MM, and spare parts to deliver optimized reliability and cost.

• Safety always - Ensure compliance to all safety requirements for maintenance teams across the plants; identify safety improvement opportunities and gaps
• Identify both plant-specific needs and company-wide needs and develop into a Maintenance & Reliability program
• Educate senior leaders, functional partners, plant leaders, and plant personnel on maintenance & reliability best practices, concepts, tactics, and the value of M&R
• Utilizes a risk-based approach to identify appropriate maintenance strategies, opportunities for condition-based monitoring, time-based maintenance, and run-to-failure
• Develop financially-sound business cases to present the value of new tools, processes, and opportunities; present to leadership and other functional partners to convey the importance need of the investments.
• Champion the implementation of the CMMS (CARL), identify & close gaps in usage to the standards, and identify optimization opportunities
• Use data & data science to drive decision-making and prioritization; identify gaps in data availability and data quality to drive improvements
• Leads development and owners of data visualization tools to implement a Maintenance KPI Dashboard
• Collaborate with functional leaders and operational leaders for joint function programs
• Key stakeholder in influencing reliability considerations for equipment selection, parts criticality and defining Preventative/Predictive Maintenance standards for asset standardization
• Collaborating with Project Engineers, support the Engineering Work process during Capital Project design, installation, start-up and acceptance of new and re-purposed assets, to ensure reliability and maintainability, including site acceptance testing to assure adherence to functional specifications and maintenance requirements.
• Collaborating with Procurement, participates in the development and selection criteria for evaluation MRO suppliers and Engineering/Maintenance service providers.
• Participates in the evaluation and implementation of new technological advances and assists with process improvement initiatives.
• Provide leadership as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Reliability tools and methods, including: Predictive Maintenance, Data analysis techniques (SPC, Modeling, Fault Tree Analysis, Six Sigma 6), Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA), Failure Mode and Effect Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Collaborate with HR to asses & evaluate current maintenance staff and potential new hires, supporting training and capability building of local maintenance teams
• Coach, mentor, train and develop maintenance leaders to meet current and future business requirements.