Site Reliability & Maintenance Leader

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Site Reliability & Maintenance Leader for our First Quality Tissue facility located in Anderson, SC.  This position will be responsible to set the tone and champion the culture of reliability and maintenance excellence, ensuring strong, consistent asset performance through development of people, process, and optimal reliability of equipment in all functional areas of the site.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with operations, engineering, and business leadership to ensure a “no surprises” environment, that delivers the highest possible OEE, particularly focused on downtime and stops elimination.
• Develop and upgrade team members skill sets in a manner that builds knowledge and capability to permanently resolve people, process, and equipment challenges.
• Lead cross-functional teams of reliability and maintenance resources in partnership with operations to identify reactive loss areas, developing and deploying long-term, permanent corrective actions.
• Evaluate and improve reliability and maintenance activities to ensure they align and meet long-term business and performance needs.
• Ensure consistent and appropriate application of best practices in reliability and maintenance, building a proactive and loss elimination mindset.
• Ensure team appropriately engages in continuous improvement activity, particularly serving as technical SMEs in RCA, FMEA, and design review needs.
• Actively engage in project development to ensure new or significantly modified equipment adequately accounts for reliability, maintainability, and total lowest life cycle cost needs.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related equivalent and progressive experience in reliability and maintenance functions with demonstrated, objective results
• Prior leader experiences demonstrating growth in people leadership responsibility
• Proven track record of building, applying, and verifying use of best practices, standards, & processes to ensure compliance and results
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build relationships
• Capable of building, selling, and aligning areas on strategies
• Effective, timely communication to team members and customers
• Focus on customer needs in a highly supportive manner as a key support resource

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
• ...and more!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations.  As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.