Work Location Type: Hybrid

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we're dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team supporting the facility reliability.

• Foster a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

• Support and facilitate facilities pillar workstreams.

• Execute reliability strategies to ensure the reliability and efficiency of all distribution center equipment and systems.

• Assist with executing preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance activities.

• Partner with DC Facility Managers, Techs, and Controls Engineers for MHE and WCS components with a goal of improving throughput, reliability, and uptime.

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track maintenance performance and reliability metrics.

• Assist with root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective actions to address equipment failures and reduce downtime.

• Collaborate with operations, engineering, and corporate facilities teams to optimize equipment performance and enhance overall facility efficiency.

• Ensure the efficient allocation of resources, including labor, materials, and equipment.

• Implement cost-saving initiatives while maintaining high facility and reliability standards.

• Assist with conducting regular safety audits and risk assessments.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and maintenance processes.

• Establish and implement plan to audit mechanical systems while partnering with local facilities teams and report out results and action items.

• Be able to travel to DC locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico to conduct with MHE mechanical/controls audits.

• Ensure spare parts of critical elements of conveyance systems are available and report out deficiencies with plans to correct.

• Create a standardize process to publish conveyance and scanner performance metrics across the DC network.

• Support, establish, and publish conveyance metrics to drive consistency and improve the overall DC performance.

• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in maintenance engineering.

• Implement innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.

• Manage relationships with equipment vendors, contractors, and service providers.

• Partner with IP to negotiate contracts and service agreements to ensure optimal performance and value.

• Partner with GTG's to create open dialogue regarding actions taken by the business, vendors, and GTG to address improvement opportunities.

• Oversee the quality of work performed by external vendors and contractors.

• Implement and conduct a quarterly review process to ensure SLA compliance of our vendors and internal partners.

• Ability to consistently attend outage calls (including weekends/nights/holidays) and be on-call to respond to outage situations on short notice.

• Collect, populate DC outages, and input information into outage tracker.

• Report/publish outage logs with root cause analysis & maintain an archive that can be use by team to help troubleshoot similar future events.

• Publish actions taken to leadership and impacted partners in a timely manner.

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in maintaining reliability within a distribution center or manufacturing environment.

• Proven leadership, team, vendor management skills.

• Strong knowledge of maintenance and reliability best practices, including preventive and predictive maintenance.

• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Knowledge of safety regulations and compliance requirements.

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance plans and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing

• Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year

• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no match required

• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education and tools

• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents