Your Job The Divisional Reliability Manager is accountable for leading and managing reliability initiatives throughout the Building Products Lumber division to ensure optimal asset health, minimizing equipment downtime, and enhancing production rates. This leader will apply Principle Based Management (PBM) to develop and empower a diverse team, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and drive long-term value creation.

The successful candidate will utilize data-driven methodologies and industry best practices to maximize asset availability, maintain asset health, build compliance with BP Asset Maintenance Work Process (AMWP), support safety and environmental standards, and mitigate operational risks.

What You Will Do

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve divisional reliability asset strategies, adherence to standards, and programs aligned with supporting operation’s vision and priorities.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of reliability engineers across multiple sites within the personalizing development to maximize each team member’s contribution and self-actualization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Safety to identify reliability risks and develop mitigation plans that leverage the comparative advantage of each team member.
• Utilize reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), root cause analysis (RCA), failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), and predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques to improve asset health, strategies, and reliability.
• Oversee the development and execution of reliability improvement plans at the Lumber segment level and site level, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals.
• Build and expand relationships with the Collaborative Support Center (CSC) and Lumber division ACO/DPO team to identify assets out of standard, execute asset health improvement events, and build effective remote monitoring strategies.
• Prepare and present reliability performance reports to Senior and Divisional leadership and stakeholders, using economic thinking and marginal analysis.
• Build trusted relationships, provide honest and timely feedback, and hold team members accountable for results and behaviors consistent with Our Values.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, challenge, and knowledge sharing to improve decision making and drive profitable transformation.

Working Conditions:

• Position reports to the BP Director of Reliability
• Will require travel to multiple facilities within the division: 50% travel.
• Remote based with frequent site visits to manufacturing/production facilities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in reliability engineering, operations, or maintenance management with at least 3 years in a leadership role, ideally with experience applying PBM or similar principle -based frameworks.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels and create an inclusive, challenge driven environment.
• Proven expertise in reliability engineering tools and techniques such as RCM, RCA, FMEA, PdM, and CMMS.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and drive data-driven decision making.
• Proficient with reliability software tools and data visualization platforms.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in wood products manufacturing facilities; especially Lumber manufacturing
• Experience with MP2 as a CMMS
• Familiarity with digital transformation initiatives such as IoT, Industry 4.0, and predictive analytics.
• Project management experience and relevant certification (PMP or equivalent).

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