Reliability Manager

Job Description:

Reliability Manager

Reliability/Maintenance P1-1

Leipsic, Ohio

Are you ready to elevate your food production facility’s performance, safety, and reliability? The Reliability Manager is a pivotal leader dedicated to safeguarding operational integrity and maximizing equipment performance across your site.

In the fast-paced world of food manufacturing, reliability isn’t just an operational goal—it’s a competitive advantage. The Reliability Manager ensures your facility meets the highest standards of safety, quality, and efficiency, helping you deliver consistent products to your customers while optimizing costs and minimizing downtime.

Invest in reliability. Invest in your future.

As the Reliability Manager, you won’t just manage maintenance—you’ll own the future of operational reliability and system integrity across the site. You will be the driving force behind reducing risks, enhancing equipment performance, and embedding a culture where every team member takes pride in ownership and continuous improvement.

The Reliability Manager has responsibility for managing and improving operational risks, equipment reliability and system integrity through the leadership of Maintenance and Engineering resources across the site.  The Reliability Manager creates a culture of ownership and capability at the site and delivers results through proactive strategies and tool implementation.  The Reliability Manager a team of 12 direct reports (12-14 indirect reports) which may include Maintenance & Utilities Techs, MRO/OVS Associates, Maintenance Planners, and Site Project Engineers. This position is a key senior member of the Site Leadership Team. 

What are we looking for? 

Minimum

• 10 years experience in a CPG manufacturing environment or similar industry.  Experience must include manufacturing-based maintenance and engineering with project/systems emphasis. 
• In-depth understanding of maintenance and engineering principals – knowledge of technical disciplines: Process, Packaging or Electrical/Controls are preferable 
• 5 years experience leading a team
• Maintenance and/or Engineering Leadership experience 
  
  

 

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or technical related field 
• 10 years experience in a food manufacturing environment or similar industry.  Experience must include manufacturing-based maintenance and engineering with project/systems emphasis. 
• CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Process) certification or working to obtain within 18 months of placement into roll 
  
  

What will be your key responsibilities? 

• The development and delivery of multi-year maintenance and engineering strategy to execute deliver critical KPI’s for Supply Chain/Operations. 
• Leading and facilitating the Progressive Maintenance Pillar 
• Management of all utilities, maintenance, & engineering at site.
• Technical asset management from early equipment management, project management (i.e. design, installation, vertical start-up), optimization, maintenance and retirement.
• The delivery of new product initiatives at the site to meet business needs.
• Ensure compliance to Mars standards related to technical job function of site. 
• Manage Maintenance costs to ensure the budgeting process is accurate and the department meets the business requirements. 
• Deliver sites engineering projects to scope, timing, and costs.
• Develop and sustain maintenance predictive technology strategies to provide a proactive maintenance culture.Maintenance and Engineering team engagement and associate development. 
  
  

What can you expect from Mars? 

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented associates, all guided by The Five Principles.   
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.  
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.  
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.