Asset Reliability Specialist

**The Opportunity**: Be part of an organization with a vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth Maple Leaf Foods is advancing this collective vision by being guided by core Leadership Values and is the world’s first major carbon neutral food company As an organization we are also committed to advancing diversity, inclusion and belonging by building, investing in, and recognizing teams of remarkable people who value an inclusive workplace, embrace all forms of diversity, and commit to include every voice in a highly collaborate environment.

Reporting to the Asset Reliability Program-Sites Manager, the incumbent will be a member of the Asset Reliability Group. This group is a corporate team with a vision to create a competitive advantage by pursuing a world-class asset performance culture through leveraging best-in-class asset management and reliability practices, technology, and leadership. This team supports 25+ manufacturing facilities across the network in North America. This role’s mandate is to manage a portfolio of up to 8 manufacturing facilities and support developing and deploying the our Asset Reliability strategy to transition Maple Leaf Foods’ reliability and maintenance program towards world class.

As part of a larger Asset Reliability Group, frequent interactions between the Asset Reliability Specialist, maintenance stakeholders at the plants, and corporate cross-functional teams (e.g. information solutions, food safety, finance, engineering, sustainability and operations excellence) will have a significant impact on the day-to-day activities. The incumbent will have an impact by maximizing capacity and uptime, increasing customer service, reducing maintenance costs, maximizing asset lifecycle, and reducing risk for environment, food safety and health and safety.
**Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life**:

- Responsible for a portfolio of 7-8 plants across North America to deploy all Corporate Asset Reliability initiatives across 3 areas:

- People
- Coaching and training the plants on ongoing initiatives; track progress, and ensure training effectiveness
- Facilitate internal/external training programs across all maintenance employees (technicians, planners, supervisors, managers)
- Facilitate and coordinate Quarterly Asset Reliability Updates, Lunch & Learns
- Support plants in performing Skill Assessments and drafting development plans for Maintenance Academy
- Coordinate and draft Monthly Asset Reliability Bulletins
- Enhance collaboration with other functional teams (IS, Purchasing, Engineering, Finance, Sustainability) through regular check-ins
- Process
- Perform annual Asset Reliability Maturity Assessment/audit, work with the plant management to develop annual action plans to close maturity gaps; support plants in completing action plans; track monthly progress forecast yearend progress status; develop monthly reporting to the 1-up
- Monitor and track plants’ Control Plans; make corrective actions/recommendation if plants are off track/noncompliance; support plants in staying on target
- Publish weekly downtime reports and insights
- Perform monthly plant check-ins on Action Plans, Control Plans, metrics, new capital projects, reliability support projects
- Liaise between OEM/Corp Project Engineering/Plants to ensure maintenance and lifecycle requirements are provided by the OEMs on new equipment purchase
- Enhance or develop maintenance process workflows (e.g., IPSECA workflow) by gathering business requirements, performing gap analysis, developing recommendations, and implementing solutions by developing standards, SOPs, guides and delivering training
- Perform analytics by gathering and analyzing available data from CMMS (SAP Plant Maintenance) and other sources in Excel and other tools using bigdata and data science principles; develop automated Key Performance Indicator (KPI) dashboards and tracking tools using Microsoft PowerBI. Monitor to improve plant performance and identify opportunities for improvements by providing recommendations
- Participate/facilitate Asset Reliability workshops for failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), root cause analysis (RCA), preventive maintenance optimization (PMO)
- Systems
- Support development and implementation of new technologies such as mobility (iPads), smart glasses, automated visual scheduling tools, building automation systems, asset intelligence management (PdM-IIoT), barcoding and annual SAP enhancements
- Provide training/support on best practices as it relates CMMS (SAP-EAM) data such as functional location hierarchies, preventive maintenance routines and equipment bill of materials
- Lead, support & participate in special projects (e.g., plant support projects, new equipment purchases, etc.)
- Other duties as required to facilitate and support our corporate strategy

**What You’ll Bring**:

- Engineering degree in a related field (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Industrial, Mechatronics, Mining, Metals