Site Reliability & Engineering Manager

Experience

• 8+ years of progressive maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing leadership experience.
• 5+ years managing maintenance, engineering, reliability, or technical teams in a multi-shift manufacturing environment.
• Food manufacturing or other highly regulated manufacturing experience preferred.
• Demonstrated success with RCM, predictive maintenance, TPM, CMMS, asset management, capital projects, and cross-functional leadership.
• REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES
• Technical
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, automation, utility, and industrial control systems.
• Ability to interpret schematics, drawings, P&IDs, OEM documentation, and technical data.
• Strong understanding of asset management, reliability engineering, RCA, FMEA, and failure elimination methods.
• Leadership
• Proven ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold technical teams accountable.
• Strong conflict resolution, decision-making, and reliability culture-building skills.
• Business & Project Management
• Strong budgeting, financial management, contractor/vendor management, and project execution capabilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, lead cross-functional teams, and influence without direct authority.
• Communication & Strategic Thinking
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical information for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic, analytical, and problem-solving mindset with the ability to align reliability initiatives to business objectives.
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.
• Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Jack Link's is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• E-Verify Jack Link's provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid, we use E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. If you believe that Jack Link’s has violated our responsibilities under this program or has discriminated against you during the verification process based upon your national origin or citizenship status, please call the Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD: 1-800-237-2515).
• At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.
• We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands: Jack Link’s®, Lorissa’sTM Organic Snacks, Golden Island®, BiFi®, Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few, there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.
• Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.
• Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.