
Senior MRO Transformation Specialist – SAP, Maintenance
Chobani
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Twin Falls • Idaho • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $77,000 - $115,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Support the development of a multi-site reliability strategy focused on asset performance, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.
- Partner and coordinate with site leadership, corporate engineering, and maintenance teams to draft standards, best practices, and improvement goals.
- Assist with identifying, prioritizing, and driving enterprise-wide initiatives such as criticality analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs, and lifecycle asset strategies.
- Develop, standardize, and optimize Preventive Maintenance (PM) programs across all sites using a combination of failure data, OEM recommendations, and RCM principles.
- Build and maintain functional locations, BOMs, task lists, and maintenance plans within SAP PM to drive system integrity and efficiency.
- Validate and revise maintenance strategies based on performance analytics, inspections, and field feedback.
- Serve as the SAP PM subject matter expert (SME) for all manufacturing sites, ensuring system design aligns with asset management best practices.
- Support master data governance and lead improvement efforts for work order processes, notifications, planning, and reporting.
- Collaborate with IT and cross-functional teams on SAP upgrades, testing, and enhancement requests.
- Define and deploy enterprise KPIs such as PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, planned work %, backlog, and asset availability.
- Use SAP data and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel) to track performance, identify gaps, and lead corrective actions.
- Develop and lead training programs for site-based planners, technicians, and reliability personnel to drive consistency and system adoption.
- Act as a coach and change agent, helping teams adopt reliability-centered maintenance practices and tools.
- Produce SOPs, knowledge guides, and communication materials to support cultural and procedural alignment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in maintenance and/or reliability engineering roles, preferably supporting multiple plants or as part of a corporate team.
- Advanced proficiency in SAP Plant Maintenance, including hands-on experience with functional locations, BOMs, task lists, and maintenance plans.
- Demonstrated ability to build reliability strategies and execute them through cross-functional collaboration.
- Travel up to 70% to our manufacturing sites in Twin Falls, ID, Central New York and Norton Shores, Michigan.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline preferred.
- Experience in multi-site manufacturing, particularly in food & beverage, CPG, or other asset-intensive industries preferred.
- Familiarity with RCM, FMEA, FMECA, and asset criticality analysis methodologies preferred.
- Experience with tools such as Power BI, Excel, Minitab, or similar analytics platforms preferred.
- Strategic thinker with strong execution skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills across levels and functions.
- Ability to influence without authority and lead cross-site standardization.
- Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision coverage
- 401K match
- short- and long-term disability coverage
- health savings accounts
- flexible spending accounts
- tuition reimbursement
- health care navigation
- mental health services
- fertility assistance
- paid parental leave
- 120 hours of PTO
- 11 Holidays each year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)Preventive Maintenance (PM)criticality analysisfailure data analysisSAP Plant Maintenancefunctional locationsBOMstask listsmaintenance plansperformance analytics
Soft skills
cross-functional collaborationstrategic thinkingexecution skillsinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsinfluence without authorityleadershipresults-orientedcontinuous improvement mindsetcoaching