Reliability Manager

Kaneka

Pasadena, TX

Pay: $134,100-$167,600/yr

Shift: Full time

**Why Work at Kaneka North America?**

At Kaneka North America, you’ll find more than just a job—you’ll find a place to build a career. We offer a people‑first, safety‑focused environment where employees are encouraged to learn, grow, and contribute. Whether you’re early in your career or bringing years of experience, you’ll have the chance to do meaningful work, collaborate across teams, and support products and industries that make a difference every day. Your contributions are valued, and your development is supported.

**Our Culture & Values**

Our culture is built on respect, teamwork, and doing things the right way. We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted, and empowered to speak up and share ideas. Safety, integrity & trust, quality, and innovation guide everything we do, and we invest in our employees through continuous learning, collaboration, and opportunities for growth. At Kaneka North America, you’re encouraged to take ownership of your work, grow your skills, and build a long‑term career in an environment that values both accountability and people

**Essential duties and responsibilities**

**Leadership, Talent Development & Organizational Capability**

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Maintenance Engineering and Inspection team, establishing clear accountability for safety, compliance, technical quality, execution, communication, and results.
• Set clear objectives, assess performance, provide timely feedback, and foster a culture of ownership, reliability, ethical conduct, and continuous improvement.
• Develop technical and leadership capability through coaching, challenging assignments, professional development, role-based competency expectations, and documented development plans.
• Identify critical skills, capability gaps, succession risks, and future staffing needs within the Reliability and Inspection organization.
• Build bench strength for key technical and leadership positions and develop employees who can lead through both formal authority and cross-functional influence.

**Reliability & Asset Management Strategy**

• Design, implement, and sustain a comprehensive reliability and asset-management program for plant assets.
• Translate site business objectives, operating risks, and production requirements into practical reliability and asset-management priorities.
• Develop and maintain long-range asset strategies addressing equipment condition, lifecycle risk, obsolescence, maintainability, renewal requirements, and operational continuity.
• Establish and monitor reliability KPIs that demonstrate measurable improvement in equipment availability, performance, cost, and risk reduction.
• Drive initiatives to eliminate chronic equipment issues, reduce structural maintenance cost, and improve lifecycle value.
• Anticipate emerging equipment, regulatory, organizational, and business risks and convert them into practical plans, priorities, and recommendations.
• Drive appropriate adoption of digital technologies, analytics, automation, and emerging tools that improve asset management and engineering effectiveness.

**Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Optimization**

• Oversee development, optimization, and execution of preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
• Implement condition monitoring technologies, including vibration analysis, thermography, and oil analysis, and ensure timely corrective actions.
• Use equipment criticality, failure history, risk, and performance data to optimize maintenance strategies and task intervals.
• Maintain a critical spare-parts strategy that supports reliability, business continuity, and responsible inventory investment.

**Mechanical Integrity & Inspection Assurance**

• Own and manage the Mechanical Integrity program, ensuring compliance with Process Safety Management requirements, applicable regulations, RAGAGEPs, and company standards.
• Supervise nondestructive inspection programs and validate the adequacy of plant inspection and testing procedures.
• Ensure inspection databases, records, recommendations, and documentation are accurate, complete, current, and effectively managed.
• Communicate significant asset-integrity risks, compliance concerns, overdue actions, and required recovery plans to appropriate leadership.

**Failure Analysis & Continuous Improvement**

• Lead root cause failure analysis for significant equipment and system failures and ensure corrective actions are implemented and verified for effectiveness.
• Collaborate with vendors, operating units, and subject-matter experts to identify failure modes and eliminate recurrence.
• Recommend and implement improvements to equipment specifications, repair procedures, engineering standards, maintenance strategies, and workforce capability.
• Capture lessons learned and incorporate them into asset strategies, project scopes, design practices, and maintenance programs.

**Business, Financial & Performance Management**

• Develop and manage the Reliability