Asset Management & Reliability Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- DE, US; MA, US; New York, NY, US; PA, US; CT, US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Reliability, or related discipline (preferred).
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in asset management, maintenance, or portfolio reliability management.
- Demonstrated leadership experience across multi-site or national operations.
- Strong expertise in asset criticality, RCA, and RCM methodologies.
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise-level CMMS systems, including governance and reporting.
- Proven skills in technical reporting, data analysis, and executive-level presentations.
- Excellent training, facilitation, and mentoring skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ISO 55000 asset management frameworks.
- Experience in utilities, water/wastewater, or other regulated industrial environments.
- Collaboration: Works effectively with facility teams and corporate leadership, serving as a trusted field advisor.
- Professional Communication: Crafts reports and presentations that bridge technical detail and business relevance.
- Adaptability: Thrives in varied environments, from industrial plants to utility sites, maintaining professionalism under pressure.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: Actively identifies opportunities to elevate processes, standardization, and portfolio maturity.
- Proficiency in analytics/reporting platforms (e.g., Power BI, advanced Excel).
- Strong facilitation and communication skills for RCA workshops, leadership sessions, and staff training.
- Proven ability to link portfolio-wide asset management goals with tactical execution.
Full description
Position Summary
The Asset Management & Reliability Manager provides national-level leadership in the design, implementation, and oversight of asset management and reliability programs across a portfolio of facilities. This role ensures that condition and criticality assessments, CMMS governance, and structured improvement programs such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA) are consistently applied. The Manager balances technical knowledge with leadership, strategy, and communication—ensuring asset management practices deliver compliance, lifecycle value, and operational reliability. Travel of approximately 50-75% is required to provide oversight, training, and alignment across the portfolio.
Salary range - $125k - $140k, depending on level of experience. (Territory will be Northeast locations, DE, NY, CT, MA, PA, VA)
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Oversight
- Provide strategic leadership to establish and maintain reliability-focused asset management practices across all managed facilities.
- Mentor and coach employees at various levels on CMMS use, asset assessment methods, and reliability improvement practices.
- Build a culture of accountability, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
- Represent the Asset Management & Reliability function in corporate, client, and executive forums, ensuring alignment between reliability programs and business objectives.
Asset Management & Assessments
- Direct and execute standardized condition assessments portfolio-wide on mechanical, electrical, structural, and process assets, using standardized rating scales.
- Document deterioration patterns, safety hazards, and compliance risks that affect lifecycle planning.
- Apply RCM thinking during inspections, identifying potential functional failures and recommending optimized maintenance strategies.
- Ensure data quality by validating asset tag numbers, hierarchy accuracy, and completeness in the CMMS.
- Lead criticality assessments to assign business risk rankings and prioritize assets for investment, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Analyze asset history and performance data to identify lifecycle risks and opportunities.
- Translate assessment findings into portfolio-wide strategies that support capital planning, optimization, and asset replacement.
Reliability Improvement & RCA
- Lead structured RCA investigations for asset failures, compliance incidents, safety events, or recurring operational issues.
- Facilitate cross-site workshops to identify systemic causes and align corrective/preventive actions.
- Ensure all RCA outcomes and improvement measures are captured, tracked, and verified in the CMMS.
- Deliver trend reports that communicate lessons learned, systemic risks, and improvement initiatives to leadership and clients.