Maintenance, Reliability & Engineering Manager – North America

Fenner Dunlop is looking for a motivated and customer-focused Maintenance, Reliability & Engineering Manager – North America  to join our team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Reporting to the Head of Operations, this role is responsible for providing regional leadership, oversight, and accountability for maintenance, reliability, plant engineering, and related operational technology activities across North American manufacturing facilities. This role ensures that each plant’s maintenance and engineering supervisors, plant engineers, maintenance technicians, and assigned teams are effectively managing equipment reliability, minimizing downtime, supporting safe operations, and executing engineering projects that improve plant performance.

This position is expected to establish clear standards, expectations, and accountability across all plants to ensure maintenance and engineering work is planned, completed, and accurately documented in the CMMS system, including uptime and downtime. The role partners closely with Plant Managers, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Safety, Quality, Purchasing, IT/Operational Technology, and external contractors to support production needs, protect customer delivery commitments, and improve long-term plant reliability across North America.

Fenner Dunlop, a Michelin Group company, designs and manufactures the widest range of bulk material handling conveyor belts in the world. We strive to be the premier provider of the safest and most reliable conveyor belting and services to a variety of heavy industrial markets such as coal mining, hard rock mining, sand, gravel, wood handling, power generation, pulp and paper. Fenner Dunlop provides North American made belting, manufactured at our facilities located throughout the United States and Canada. For over 150 years, Fenner Dunlop has researched, designed, developed, manufactured, and tested its conveyor belting products, supporting nearly any type of conveyor application, and providing the right solutions to protect conveyor system investments in the harshest conveying environments.

What You’ll Do

Maintenance Leadership and Regional Oversight

• Provide leadership, direction, and oversight to plant-level maintenance and engineering supervisors to ensure maintenance teams are effectively managed at each facility.
• Ensure each plant has clear daily maintenance priorities and that work is completed safely, efficiently, and on schedule.
• Establish consistent expectations across all plants for work quality, urgency, communication, accountability, documentation, and follow-through.
• Monitor maintenance activity, response times, equipment issues, downtime, and completion of assigned work across all facilities.
• Ensure plant-level maintenance leaders are properly training, equipping, and holding their teams accountable for performance.
• Provide technical and leadership guidance to plant maintenance supervisors, plant engineers, maintenance technicians, and other team members as needed.
• Ensure each maintenance team supports the overall needs of its plant in a positive, professional, collaborative, and solution-oriented manner.

Reliability and Preventive Maintenance

• Develop, standardize, and oversee preventive, predictive, and reliability-based maintenance programs across North American facilities.
• Ensure each plant is actively driving reliability improvements to reduce unplanned downtime, repeat failures, and production interruptions.
• Ensure maintenance plans, schedules, and resource requirements are aligned with production needs at each facility.
• Review equipment history, downtime trends, maintenance costs, SCADA data, and recurring issues across plants to identify root causes, reliability risks, corrective actions, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure plant teams conduct root cause analysis for equipment failures and implement sustainable countermeasures.
• Support reliability-centered maintenance, condition-based monitoring, predictive maintenance, and asset lifecycle improvement initiatives across the region.
• Ensure plant teams recommend and implement changes to equipment, processes, spare parts, or maintenance practices to improve safety, uptime, reliability, production efficiency, and operating performance.
• Ensure preventive maintenance tasks are completed on time and properly documented at each plant.

Engineering Projects and Capital Improvements

• Provide oversight and support for plant engineering, reliability, and capital projects across North America from concept through implementation.
• Ensure plant teams develop appropriate project scopes, timelines, budgets, resource p