What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance & Reliability Manager position at Louisiana Fish Fry Products?
Position Summary
Louisiana Fish Fry is seeking an experienced Maintenance & Reliability Manager to lead all aspects of maintenance, reliability, facilities, and utility operations within our manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for maximizing equipment uptime, improving plant performance, developing a world-class reliability program, and building a high-performing maintenance team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the plant's maintenance, reliability, facilities, and utility functions to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations.
- Develop and execute preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance programs that improve asset performance and equipment uptime.
- Drive reliability initiatives through Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), and continuous improvement practices.
- Partner closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Safety, and Supply Chain teams to improve productivity, reduce downtime, and achieve business goals.
- Oversee maintenance planning and scheduling, work execution, backlog management, and CMMS effectiveness.
- Develop and manage maintenance budgets, including labor, spare parts, contractors, and capital expenditures.
- Lead spare parts inventory and storeroom strategies to balance equipment reliability and cost control.
- Manage capital projects, equipment installations, commissioning activities, and long-term asset lifecycle planning.
- Build, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance team through effective leadership, accountability, training, and succession planning.
- Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, food safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Foster a culture of proactive maintenance, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and employee development.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 7 years of progressive maintenance and reliability experience within a manufacturing environment.
- 3 years of leadership experience managing maintenance teams, supervisors, planners, or reliability personnel.
- Demonstrated success improving equipment reliability, uptime, asset utilization, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
- Experience leading reliability improvement programs utilizing RCA, FMEA, RCM, and other structured problem-solving tools.
- Strong understanding of CMMS systems, maintenance planning and scheduling, and asset management practices.
- Experience managing maintenance budgets, contractor relationships, spare parts inventories, and capital projects.
- Working knowledge of OSHA, environmental, food safety, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Strong leadership, communication, and team-building skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and data-driven performance reporting.
- Ability to support off-shift operations and respond to critical plant issues when necessary.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in food, beverage, packaging, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or other highly automated manufacturing environments.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Reliability Excellence, or World Class Manufacturing programs.
- Knowledge of PLCs, controls, VFDs, automated packaging systems, robotics, machine vision systems, and industrial utility systems.