Senior Director, Equipment Maintenance & Reliability
jfo_jfm_manufacturing-industrial-engineering-equipment-maintenance-r · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive leading maintenance and reliability strategy across multiple sites or a major business unit.
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What this role is
Senior executive leading maintenance and reliability strategy across multiple sites or a major business unit. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Owns the long-term equipment-maintenance and asset-reliability strategy across all functions/divisions, with effects on company-level operational cost and capacity
- Defines abstract, cross-functional reliability direction — connecting maintenance strategy to capital planning, manufacturing footprint and technology roadmaps
- Leads through senior maintenance managers/directors across divisions, setting policy on predictive maintenance, CMMS platforms and reliability standards
- Negotiates with executives and strategic OEM/technology partners on critical equipment lifecycle, automation and total-cost-of-ownership commitments
- Shapes enterprise maintenance policy and multi-year investment strategy for equipment renewal, digitization and reliability capability
- Knowledge applied
- Sets long-term enterprise maintenance and asset-reliability strategy across functions and divisions.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional issues connecting maintenance to capital, footprint and technology roadmaps.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives and strategic partners on critical equipment lifecycle and TCO matters; influences policy.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of deep leadership across maintenance functions or divisions.
Skills at this level
- Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Strategy
- — Designs PM schedules and predictive-maintenance programs from equipment-lifecycle data to prevent failures and shift teams from reactive break-fix to planned reliability work.
- Root Cause Analysis
- — Directs structured investigation of recurring equipment failures and drives corrective actions that eliminate the fault rather than repeat the repair.
- CMMS Work Management
- — Governs use of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (IBM Maximo, SAP PM) to schedule, dispatch, document and audit maintenance work, backlog and parts usage.
- Controls & Automation Oversight
- — Directs support of factory control technologies — PLCs (e.g., Allen-Bradley ControlLogix) and communication interfaces such as Profinet and RS232 — for maintenance and upgrades of automated equipment.
- Multi-Domain Equipment Diagnostics
- — Guides diagnosis and repair across mechanical, electrical and hydraulic/fluid systems, ensuring technicians apply the right tools and methods to each equipment type.
- Industrial Safety Compliance
- — Enforces OSHA protocols, lockout/tagout and industrial hazard awareness across maintenance execution in the manufacturing environment.
- Lean Maintenance
- — Applies Lean principles to standardize and optimize maintenance processes, cutting waste from PM routines and work-order execution.
- Maintenance Budget & Resource Management
- — Owns maintenance operating and capital-spares budgets, headcount and contractor decisions for the scope managed.
- Equipment Lifecycle & Capital Planning
- — Analyzes asset condition and lifecycle data to justify equipment renewal, replacement and automation-upgrade investments.
- Reliability Program Leadership
- — Sets uptime, downtime and reliability targets and standardizes maintenance and reliability practices across teams, plants or divisions.
- Team Development & Technical Coaching
- — Trains and mentors maintenance technicians and engineers on repair technique, controls literacy and reliability practices.
- Technical Documentation Interpretation
- — Reads and directs use of engineering drawings, schematics and equipment manuals to ensure accurate repairs and standardized procedures.
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