Maintenance Reliability Manager- 27576 in Kansas City

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Maintenance & Reliability Planning Manager

Kansas City, KS | Onsite | 12-Month+ Contract
Primarily Monday-Friday | Day Shift
40 Hours/Week + Approximately 5 Hours OT

Our client, a well-established global manufacturer, is seeking an experienced Maintenance & Reliability Planning Manager to lead maintenance planning, scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, and reliability improvement efforts at a high-volume manufacturing facility.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building a more proactive, planned, and data-driven maintenance organization. The Manager will lead the maintenance planning team, own the work-order management process, improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs, strengthen SAP PM data, and drive improvements in equipment reliability and downtime.

Key Focus

• Maintenance planning and scheduling
• SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM)
• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Reliability improvement
• Work order management
• MTBF, MTTR, and OEE
• Maintenance KPIs and backlog management
• Power BI and advanced Excel
• Spare parts and equipment BOMs
• Continuous improvement

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop the maintenance planning team.
• Own the maintenance work order management process from notification through planning, parts readiness, scheduling, execution, feedback, and closeout.
• Develop detailed maintenance job plans covering labor, parts, materials, tools, safety requirements, procedures, and work steps.
• Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
• Coordinate daily maintenance schedules, weekend work, and major plant outages.
• Facilitate weekly planning and scheduling meetings with Maintenance and Operations.
• Increase planned maintenance and improve schedule compliance and backlog health.
• Drive improvements in MTBF, MTTR, OEE, equipment availability, and unplanned downtime.
• Maintain accurate SAP PM master data, including equipment BOMs, task lists, measuring points, maintenance plans, and equipment records.
• Develop and improve equipment-specific preventive maintenance programs and task lists.
• Identify opportunities to transition time-based PMs to predictive and condition-based maintenance.
• Analyze equipment failures, downtime, and recurring issues using reliability data, Pareto analysis, FMEA, and root-cause analysis.
• Support predictive maintenance technologies including vibration analysis, infrared thermography, oil analysis, and ultrasound.
• Develop Power BI dashboards and Excel models for maintenance KPIs, equipment health, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Identify critical spare parts and maintain accurate equipment Bills of Material.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Reliability, and Quality teams to prioritize maintenance activities.
• Incorporate LOTO, confined-space, hot-work, GMP, and other safety requirements into maintenance plans.
• Champion Continuous Improvement, Lean, 5S, and Reliability-Centered Maintenance practices.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of progressive industrial maintenance, maintenance planning, or reliability experience in manufacturing.
• 3+ years of leadership or supervisory experience managing maintenance planners, technicians, or technical teams.
• Advanced experience with SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) or a comparable enterprise CMMS.
• Strong knowledge of work orders, maintenance notifications, task lists, maintenance plans, equipment BOMs, master data, and maintenance reporting.
• Demonstrated success increasing planned maintenance and reducing reactive/unplanned maintenance.
• Experience improving equipment reliability using MTBF, MTTR, OEE, schedule compliance, backlog, and related maintenance KPIs.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, Power Query, complex formulas, and data modeling.
• Strong Power BI skills with experience developing maintenance or reliability dashboards.
• Strong understanding of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Reliability Engineering, or another technical discipline.
• Experience in food, beverage, consumer products, process manufacturing, or highly automated manufacturing.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
• Experience developing or expanding predictive maintenance programs.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
• Continuous Improvement or Lean training.
• Experience with vibration analysis, infrared thermography, oil analysis, or ultrasound.
• Experience supporting automated production equipment, packaging machinery, process systems, or plant utilities.

Relevant Backgrounds

Candidates may currently hold titles such as Maintenance Planning Manager, Reliability Manager, Maintenance & Reliability Manager, Maintenance Manager, Reliability Engineering Manager, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Manager, or Senior Maintenance Planner.

This is an excellent opportunity for a maintenance and reliability leader who combines maintenance planning, SAP PM, reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, manufacturing leadership, and data-driven continuous improvement.

Location: Kansas City, KS
Employment Type: 12-Month+ Contract
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Schedule: Primarily Monday-Friday, Day Shift
Hours: 40 hours per week with approximately 5 hours of overtime expected weekly