Welcome to Cascades!
You are a hands-on maintenance professional who enjoys preventing breakdowns, improving equipment reliability, and helping teams solve problems. This role gives you the opportunity to strengthen planned maintenance and coach operators and mechanics in a manufacturing environment.
Join the Warrenton team as a Maintenance Reliability Specialist and help build a more sustainable future.
What’s in it for you
Taking care of our people is in our nature, so you’ll enjoy:
- A competitive annual salary between $80,000 to $85,000
- Profit sharing and an employee share purchase plan
- A full range of benefits: group insurance, telemedicine, and an employer-supported retirement plan
- An annual allowance to spend on goods and services of your choice
- A yearly wellness program and employee assistance program
- A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace
Your Role
As Maintenance Reliability Specialist, you’ll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential. Your scope includes:
- Responsible for the mechanical and electrical integrity of assigned equipment.
- Drive planned work to prevent component breakdowns.
- Define standard processes and tools for defect handling.
- Ensure defect-handling processes are followed correctly.
- Follow up with operators and maintenance personnel on completed defects.
- Define and apply Breakdown Elimination standards.
- Support operators and mechanics in solving breakdown causes.
- Determine planned maintenance needs and priorities.
- Update the planned maintenance system using real data analysis.
- Prepare maintenance kits so materials are ready for execution.
- Maintain organized and clean parts storage areas.
- Lead the yellow filter meeting.
- Communicate area priorities with the Maintenance Supervisor and Process Leads.
- Facilitate communication between the LCT and Maintenance Supervisor.
- Improve defect handling and Breakdown Elimination processes.
- Own, update, and improve assigned PFX documents.
- Coach operators on defect handling and Breakdown Elimination.
- Support the Maintenance Supervisor in building team skills and standards.
- Monitor and improve maintenance and Lean Production System KPIs.
- Champion a strong safety culture and a safe work environment.
- Support a winning culture based on Cascades values and ethics.
What you bring
You're a natural fit for Maintenance Reliability Specialist if you have:
- A technical degree is preferred.
- Five years of relevant experience.
- Mechanical experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with maintenance processes and planned work.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
- Experience coaching teams and navigating complex situations.
- The ability to monitor and improve key performance indicators.
If you bring as much heart to who you are as to what you do, we can't wait to meet you!
Apply now and join our team of Cascaders as Maintenance Reliability Specialist in Warrenton, MO.
Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably.
This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization.
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