Job Description:
Reliability/Maintenance P1-1
Leipsic, Ohio
Are you ready to elevate your food production facility’s performance, safety, and reliability? The Reliability Manager is a pivotal leader dedicated to safeguarding operational integrity and maximizing equipment performance across your site.
In the fast-paced world of food manufacturing, reliability isn’t just an operational goal—it’s a competitive advantage. The Reliability Manager ensures your facility meets the highest standards of safety, quality, and efficiency, helping you deliver consistent products to your customers while optimizing costs and minimizing downtime.
Invest in reliability. Invest in your future.
As the Reliability Manager, you won’t just manage maintenance—you’ll own the future of operational reliability and system integrity across the site. You will be the driving force behind reducing risks, enhancing equipment performance, and embedding a culture where every team member takes pride in ownership and continuous improvement.
The Reliability Manager has responsibility for managing and improving operational risks, equipment reliability and system integrity through the leadership of Maintenance and Engineering resources across the site. The Reliability Manager creates a culture of ownership and capability at the site and delivers results through proactive strategies and tool implementation. The Reliability Manager a team of 12 direct reports (12-14 indirect reports) which may include Maintenance & Utilities Techs, MRO/OVS Associates, Maintenance Planners, and Site Project Engineers. This position is a key senior member of the Site Leadership Team.
What are we looking for?
Minimum
10 years experience in a CPG manufacturing environment or similar industry. Experience must include manufacturing-based maintenance and engineering with project/systems emphasis.
In-depth understanding of maintenance and engineering principals – knowledge of technical disciplines: Process, Packaging or Electrical/Controls are preferable
5 years experience leading a team
Maintenance and/or Engineering Leadership experience
Preferred
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or technical related field
10 years experience in a food manufacturing environment or similar industry. Experience must include manufacturing-based maintenance and engineering with project/systems emphasis.
CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Process) certification or working to obtain within 18 months of placement into roll
What will be your key responsibilities?
The development and delivery of multi-year maintenance and engineering strategy to execute deliver critical KPI’s for Supply Chain/Operations.
Leading and facilitating the Progressive Maintenance Pillar
Management of all utilities, maintenance, & engineering at site.
Technical asset management from early equipment management, project management (i.e. design, installation, vertical start-up), optimization, maintenance and retirement.
The delivery of new product initiatives at the site to meet business needs.
Ensure compliance to Mars standards related to technical job function of site.
Manage Maintenance costs to ensure the budgeting process is accurate and the department meets the business requirements.
Deliver sites engineering projects to scope, timing, and costs.
Develop and sustain maintenance predictive technology strategies to provide a proactive maintenance culture.Maintenance and Engineering team engagement and associate development.
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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Skills Required
- 10 years experience in a CPG manufacturing environment
- 5 years experience leading a team
- In-depth understanding of maintenance and engineering principles
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical related field
- CMRP certification or working to obtain within 18 months
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
