At Danone, manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demands is a key driver for our plant teams.  We have an opening for a Reliability Manager based in our Bridgeton, New Jersey, beverage manufacturing plant!  As the Reliability Manager, you will be responsible for managing the site reliability team with a focus on predictive/preventive maintenance and machine reliability.  This role will also be responsible for leading the PM pillar within a CI/Lean manufacturing environment. This role reports into the Plant Director and has 7 direct reports (4 Utilities Technicians and 3 Instrumentation Controls Technicians) and 2 dotted line reports (Maintenance Leaders). 

Primary Responsibilities:

Leadership / Management

• Manages site reliability team.  
• Provide guidance and vision to the Maintenance Leaders
• Provides positive role model for all plant personnel in the areas of safety, quality and productivity.
• Provides guidance, instruction and mentoring for the maintenance staff.
• Provides periodic feedback to employees in the areas of job knowledge, performance and development. Provides training where needed to improve employee skill sets critical to the success of the business.
• Manages employee overtime and equipment reliability to achieve lowest maintenance costs for the plant.
• Responsible for resolving maintenance employee relations issues.

Maintenance and Engineering:

• Directs maintenance prioritization, planning and execution for the site.  
• Prepares facility maintenance and maintenance projects between contractors and maintenance.
• Oversees utilities and controls operations.
• Manages maintenance schedulers in scheduling of work, developing and setting objectives, monitoring of progress, and the evaluation of results.
• Analyze problems and/or trends in plant maintenance and recommends appropriate resolutions to minimize production downtime for all areas of the plant.
• Staffs and directs staff activities to provide quality, cost-effective support for all electrical, mechanical, information, and process control systems while assuring compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
• Evaluates major sources of machine downtime and creates action plans to improve machine efficiency and reliability.  
• Communicates with the operating departments to maintain system awareness and identify opportunities and provide technical expertise for optimization of the process control systems.
• Coordinates corporate technology strategies with the information systems shared services group.
• Optimizes plant energy usage.

Capital and Project Management:

• Plans scheduled downtimes, shutdowns and maintenance projects.
• Manages the execution of major construction and maintenance projects

Safety / Environmental / Compliance:

• Leads the safety effort for the maintenance team.
• Identifies safety issues that may arise due to equipment modification.
• Maintains a clean and orderly environment conducive to safe work habits, encourages employee accountability.
• Ensures the plant is compliant with local state and federal rules of maintenance equipment

Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options.

• You have a high school diploma, required.  A bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field is preferred.  
• You have at least 8-10 years’ experience in a maintenance, engineering, project management and/or production management capacity within an industrial or manufacturing environment, required. Prior experience in food/beverage industry highly preferred. 
• You have a minimum of five years people management experience.
• You have prior experience managing a PM Pillar and have functional understanding of lean manufacturing concepts, predictive and preventive maintenance program, work order systems and world-class maintenance systems, such as TPM, required.  
• You have prior experience with Automation / Process Controls, preferred. 
• You have a technical understanding of dairy processing systems equipment / technology, such as UHT, ESL, etc, preferred.    
• You have analytical troubleshooting skills.
• You have good verbal and written communication skills.
• You are proficient in the use of MS Office products, as well as prior experience using Timekeeping software, PM management software (CMMS programs such as MVP, SAP) required.
• You have ability to support a 24/7 production manufacturing environment as business needs dictate.  Work schedules could include days/nights/weekends as business needs dictate. 

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You’ll be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000+ employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We recruit, employ, train and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect. http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

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