What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Reliability Specialist position at Lamb Weston LATAM?
Title: Sr Reliability Specialist
Location: Quincy, WA
Job Requisition ID: Req-271065
Time Type: Full time
About Lamb Weston
You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.
A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000 people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.
If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.
Job Description Summary
The Reliability Specialist position provides leadership, expertise, and direction to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement in the maintenance department. The primary purpose of this role is to evaluate work processes, identify losses, develop and implement strategies to delivery improved equipment reliability. These strategies will include, but are not limited to, development of systems and standards to improve skill level of the department, improve job plans, drive to root cause, and increase department efficiency. Manages all repair and maintenance activities in the assigned area.
Job Description
Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:
Anticipated Close Date
The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.
Anticipated Close Date: 08/22/2026
Pay Transparency
In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.
Pay Rate or Range: $95,020.00 - $142,520.00
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law
Location: Quincy, WA
Job Requisition ID: Req-271065
Time Type: Full time
About Lamb Weston
You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.
A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000 people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.
If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.
Job Description Summary
The Reliability Specialist position provides leadership, expertise, and direction to facilitate a culture of continuous improvement in the maintenance department. The primary purpose of this role is to evaluate work processes, identify losses, develop and implement strategies to delivery improved equipment reliability. These strategies will include, but are not limited to, development of systems and standards to improve skill level of the department, improve job plans, drive to root cause, and increase department efficiency. Manages all repair and maintenance activities in the assigned area.
Job Description
- Provide coaching to TMs and ensure compliance with all Company safetyprograms, initiatives,and procedures.
- Develop andmaintainpreventive and predictive maintenance programs.
- Maintain equipment hierarchy tofacilitatethe gathering of equipment repair history and equipment cost.
- Analyze and evaluate maintenance downtime trends.
- Provide recommendations and data for equipment reliability improvements, including equipment improvement, improved preventative maintenance plans,and improved predictive maintenance plans.
- Provide support for efficient troubleshooting/problem-solvingactivities and maintenance repairs to maximizeefficiencyand minimize downtime
- Support Engineering and Maintenance Manager to create and execute a maintenance and capital budget
- Assistin managing maintenance department costs within budgetary targets
- Identifycritical spares and work with procurement to ensure inventory levels are appropriate
- Provide coaching to TLMs on area reliability improvements
- PerformandassistBDEs (Breakdown Elimination) and technical analysis toidentifyequipment failures andexecutepermanentcountermeasuresto prevent future losses
- Participatingin VSU(Vertical Start Up)and EM(Early Management)pillar activities
- Ensure new equipment is captured in CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System),maintenance specifications, warranty,and recommended spare parts are entered.
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred or 7 plusyears experiencein Manufacturing
- 3-5 yearsSupervisoryexperience
- 3-5years experiencein statistical data analysis and lean manufacturing principles
- Leadership skills to work as a mentor to peers and subordinates
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- High levelofproficiencyworking with Excel
- Intermediate computer skills
- CMRP (Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional) certificate
Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:
- Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
- Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
- Paid Time Off
- Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
- Family-Friendly Employee events
- Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services
Anticipated Close Date
The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.
Anticipated Close Date: 08/22/2026
Pay Transparency
In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.
Pay Rate or Range: $95,020.00 - $142,520.00
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law
Salary : $95,020 - $142,520