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Maintenance and Reliability Leader

Life Cycle Engineering
United States, Georgia, Savannah
Dec 23, 2025
Maintenance and Reliability Leader Position Summary: As Maintenance and Reliability Leader (MRL) for our client manufacturing plant in the Savannah, GA area, you will provide leadership and direction to the site maintenance function. The MRL is responsible for leading and sustaining a proactive safety culture for employees and contractors on site. The MRL leads and manages the effective use of all internal labor, materials, outside contractors, and support resources within the department. The maintenance function partners with Operations to provide production capacity, contributes to asset reliability, and the lowest life cycle cost. The MRL is responsible for implementing and managing the maintenance and reliability structure, processes, and systems necessary to achieve and sustain the Maintenance and Reliability mission. Additionally, you will create a proactive reliability culture by developing people to value asset reliability, asset integrity, and life cycle asset management. The MRL participates or leads specialty team(s) in support of overall site initiatives. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: Create and lead a zero injury work environment Expectation: Ensure full EH&S compliance, continual improvement Maintain plant assets to meet production requirements Expectation: Execute work to repair equipment to like new or better condition Expectation: Maintain plant equipment to high reliability standards Develop employees within the maintenance department Expectations: Improve knowledge and skills, lead employee engagement Implement the overall Reliability Excellence process in coordination with the entire plant management team o Expectation: Ensure execution of the maintenance function is consistent with the defined Maintenance process from work identification to work closeout Expectation: Ensure execution of the reliability engineering and planning functions are consistent with the defined Rx processes Ensures effective use and integration of information technologies such as the CMMS, condition monitoring, and other technologies Ensure the organization is trained in reliability (Rx) management Own and implement the plant maintenance and reliability engineering measures and performance goals o Expectation: Ensure lagging and leading measures are in place and utilized Expectation: Identify future improvement Required Education, Skills and Experience Education: high school plus trade school with significant experience, and/or four-year technical degree with manufacturing, maintenance, and reliability experience. Experience: maintenance, operation, and engineering in a production environment. Prior experience as a supervisor is required. Knowledge: repair practices and craft skill requirements, general technical equipment, maintenance backlog management practices, preventative maintenance, and application of predictive maintenance / condition monitoring. General knowledge in the application and use of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Training: leadership, continuous improvement, machinery management, and other applicable maintenance-specific training. Certifications: CMRP, CFM, similar certification preferred. Physical Demands and Expectations: While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The associate is occasionally required to sit; climb stairs and/or ladders, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The associate must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Relationships Reports to Site Leader Organizational peer and partner with Production Leader(s) Works closely with the following: o Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Quality assurance Production Capital Engineering Human resources Accounting Measurement of Performance EH&S incidents Production volume goal / Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Site Maintenance budget Employee training / engagement Maintenance Schedule Capacity and Schedule Compliance This position description represents a summary of the major components and requirements of the outlined job. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned or required as business needs dictate. Questions regarding this description should immediately be addressed to the department manager or to Human Resources. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is a privately held, employee-owned company with an emphasis on "doing the right thing the right way", which applies to the way we treat our customers and employees. We are proud to have been recognized as a "Best Place to Work" in Engineering and in many states and local communities in which we work! Learn more below and at www.lce.com. Mission Our mission is to enable people and organizations to achieve their full potential. As a professional services organization, our mission is focused on our clients' people and organizations. It is our company's cornerstone belief that we will not lead the industry in assisting our clients unless we excel at helping our own people and teams reach their full potential. Life Cycle Engineering is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, application for or service in the military or status as a disabled veteran or veteran, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation, and any other status protected by applicable state or federal law.