Reliability Director

Reliability Director

We are seeking a strategic, analytical, and technically strong Reliability Director to lead the organization's reliability, asset performance, maintenance optimization, and operational improvement strategies. The role involves establishing reliability objectives, strengthening asset management practices, reducing operational risks, and improving equipment availability, maintainability, and lifecycle performance.

Key responsibilities include developing and overseeing enterprise-wide reliability programs, asset performance strategies, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will analyze equipment and process performance, review failure trends, establish reliability indicators, and lead root cause investigations to identify opportunities for long-term improvement.

The role also involves directing preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies, criticality assessments, reliability-centered maintenance activities, and asset improvement programs. You will collaborate with engineering, operations, maintenance, quality, procurement, safety, and other business functions to align reliability priorities with operational and business objectives.

You will oversee reliability reporting, performance dashboards, technical assessments, risk reviews, and improvement plans. The position also requires evaluating asset lifecycle costs, supporting capital investment decisions, reviewing equipment specifications, and identifying opportunities to reduce downtime, maintenance costs, failures, and operational risks.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, asset management, maintenance strategy, and operational risk management.
• Strong knowledge of preventive, predictive, condition-based, and reliability-centered maintenance practices.
• Expertise in Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, criticality assessment, and reliability improvement methodologies.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Ability to interpret equipment performance data, reliability metrics, maintenance trends, and lifecycle cost information.
• Familiarity with CMMS, EAM, asset performance management, and reliability analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of engineering standards, safety requirements, and asset management frameworks.
• Excellent leadership, strategic planning, project management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive organization-wide reliability initiatives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex technical matters clearly.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect reliability improvements with operational and financial objectives.
• Professional, proactive, accountable, and committed to safety, continuous improvement, and long-term asset performance.