Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Work Arrangement: 100% onsite
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
Experience Level: Senior Plant Leadership
Travel: Occasional
Relocation Assistance: Available
Security Clearance: Not required
Visa Sponsorship: Not available
Position Overview
A leading global food and beverage manufacturer is seeking an accomplished Senior Maintenance & Reliability Manager to lead the full Maintenance and Reliability organization at a major Indianapolis production facility.
The role owns equipment uptime and asset life across manufacturing equipment, facilities and utilities. It requires deep consumer-packaged-goods experience, strong engineering and financial acumen, and a record of improving OEE, reducing breakdowns and building high-performing technical teams.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead maintenance managers, supervisors, engineers, planners and technicians.
• Own uptime, reliability and lifecycle performance across production lines, utilities and facilities.
• Develop the plant-wide maintenance and reliability strategy and annual operating plan.
• Establish preventive, predictive, planned and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Improve planning, scheduling, calibration, lubrication, spares and tool-management practices.
• Eliminate recurring failures through root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective action.
• Improve OEE, MTBF, MTTR, availability, planned-maintenance compliance and schedule adherence.
• Control maintenance costs, downtime, waste and yield losses.
• Champion Integrated Lean Six Sigma, TPM, 5S and zero-loss principles.
• Strengthen operator ownership and autonomous maintenance.
• Lead technical capability building, succession planning and performance management.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety and Supply Chain.
• Manage budgets, contractors, capital improvements and reliability investments.
• Communicate performance, risks and actions to plant and supply-chain leaders.
Required Qualifications
• Significant maintenance and reliability leadership experience in food, beverage or CPG manufacturing.
• Experience leading a large multidisciplinary maintenance organization.
• Strong knowledge of preventive, predictive and planned-maintenance systems.
• Demonstrated success improving OEE and reducing equipment losses.
• Lean, Six Sigma, TPM or continuous-improvement expertise.
• Strong engineering, financial, budgeting and project-management capability.
• Experience using CMMS and maintenance-performance data.
• Strong people-development and change-leadership skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Indianapolis.
• Current U.S. work authorization without sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications
• Engineering or related technical degree.
• IL6S or advanced TPM implementation experience.
• High-speed automated production or packaging experience.
• Utilities, facilities and capital-project experience.
Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, incentive compensation and professional development.
Equal Opportunity
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants without discrimination based on any status protected by applicable law.