About the Role
The Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability strengthens the organization’s ability to maximize asset performance, availability, and lifecycle value. This role provides enterprise leadership for asset reliability by connecting operational priorities, maintenance strategies, asset health insights, and technology capabilities into an integrated approach across business units and sites. It creates value by shifting reliability decisions from reactive intervention toward proactive, predictive, and risk-based approaches. The Chief Specialist translates reliability and maintenance challenges into scalable business and technology solutions that improve equipment performance, reduce avoidable disruption, and optimize total cost of ownership. Acting as the enterprise domain authority, this position aligns reliability outcomes, decision logic, and technology priorities across assets, ensuring initiatives address the highest-value reliability opportunities and can be scaled effectively across the organization.
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What You Will Deliver
Enterprise Reliability Strategy & Outcomes
- Shape enterprise asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes that strengthen asset performance and lifecycle value across business units.
- Establish consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles that focus investment and intervention on the highest-value asset risks and opportunities.
- Provide technical authority on asset reliability, influencing strategies, priorities, and solutions across operational and technology stakeholders.
Reliability Performance & Value
- Translate asset performance, maintenance, and cost challenges into clear improvement opportunities with measurable value hypotheses and success measures.
- Enable proactive, predictive, and risk-based maintenance decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, availability, and total cost of ownership.
- Use asset performance insights to identify recurring reliability constraints and focus improvement initiatives on sustainable performance.
Integrated Reliability Solutions
- Shape end-to-end solutions that connect asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning, and operational execution.
- Establish closed-loop approaches that use asset performance and maintenance outcomes to continuously improve reliability decisions.
- Ensure reliability solutions are scalable, interoperable, and aligned with operational requirements and enterprise technology direction.
Enterprise Integration & Technology Enablement
- Align Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain stakeholders around asset criticality, reliability priorities, and performance outcomes.
- Partner with analytics, AI, monitoring, and digital teams to translate reliability needs into deployable technology solutions.
- Integrate reliability initiatives and technical designs to minimize fragmentation, strengthen reuse, and accelerate enterprise adoption.
Technical Leadership & Capability
- Advance enterprise reliability practices by applying proven methods, technology, and data-driven approaches to priority asset challenges.
- Build reliability capability through technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and the adoption of consistent practices across relevant teams.
What Success Looks Like
- Asset reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes are consistently defined and applied across relevant business units and assets.
- Asset reliability, availability, and maintainability improve through targeted, data-driven interventions.
- Maintenance decisions increasingly use proactive, predictive, and risk-based insights rather than reactive intervention.
- Reliability improvements contribute to lower avoidable disruption and optimized total cost of ownership.
- Asset health, maintenance planning, and operational execution operate through effective closed-loop decision-making.
- Reliability solutions and technology investments are scalable, aligned to business priorities, and deliver measurable operational value.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance, or a related discipline.
Experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience in asset reliability, maintenance, asset management, or industrial operations.
- Strong experience applying reliability engineering and maintenance strategies in asset-intensive environments.
- Experience using digital, analytics, or advanced technologies to improve asset reliability and maintenance outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience influencing reliability priorities and outcomes across multiple functions or business units.
Skills That Matter
- Asset reliability and reliability engineering
- Maintenance strategy and asset performance management
- Asset criticality and lifecycle optimization
- Predictive and condition-based maintenance
- Reliability analytics and data-driven decision-making
- Total cost of ownership and value realization
- Digital and technology-enabled reliability solutions
- Systems thinking and solution integration
- Cross-functional stakeholder influence
- Technical leadership and capability building
