Senior Director, Maintenance & Reliability

Conagra Brands

Senior Director leading enterprise Maintenance organization for Conagra Brands. Setting strategic direction for reliability and maintenance execution across all manufacturing sites.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeOmaha • Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $153,000 - $236,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the enterprise Maintenance organization and set the strategic direction for reliability, asset management, and maintenance execution across all manufacturing sites.
Establish and govern maintenance standards, performance systems, and reliability programs that improve safety, compliance, asset availability, and total cost of ownership.
Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Environmental Health and Safety, Quality and Food Safety, Risk, Procurement, and Finance to prioritize investments, mitigate risk, and deliver business objectives.
Develop leaders and build organizational capability through clear accountability, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement while providing executive-level technical guidance during critical events.
Own maintenance operating and capital planning, including budgeting, cost controls, contractor strategy, and resource capacity planning aligned to business needs.
Establish and govern enterprise standards for maintenance practices, planning and scheduling, work management, spare parts, lubrication, and critical asset strategies.
Lead governance for major outages, turnarounds, and critical repairs, ensuring safe execution, schedule adherence, cost control, and effective post-outage learning.
Build and scale preventive and predictive maintenance and reliability engineering programs, including reliability centered maintenance, condition monitoring, and root cause analysis.
Support confidential business activities such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and litigation by providing maintenance and asset integrity due diligence, risk assessment, and integration planning.
Own enterprise maintenance performance management through key performance indicators, dashboards, and benchmarking.
Enable execution through computerized maintenance management system and enterprise asset management governance, master data standards, and asset performance management software to improve asset health visibility and decision making.
Set maintenance and asset integrity standards for site infrastructure, including civil, structural, and building assets, as well as manufacturing utilities.
Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance organization through standard work, training, succession planning, and a strong safety culture.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical) or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
10-15 years of progressive experience in maintenance, reliability, or asset management within manufacturing environments.
Five+ years of experience in the food industry or a closely related regulated industry such as biotechnology or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Five+ years of maintenance leadership experience, including leading leaders, managing contractor or union environments as applicable, and driving planning, scheduling, and work management disciplines.
Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional certification preferred.
Working knowledge of maintenance-related federal and state regulations, including Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and Process Safety Management requirements.
Working knowledge of safe work practices including lockout tagout, machine guarding, confined space, hot work, and audit and corrective action management.
Working knowledge of industrial utilities and critical systems maintenance such as ammonia refrigeration, steam and boilers, industrial electrical controls and power distribution, wastewater pretreatment, compressed air, and process water systems.
Working knowledge of manufacturing equipment, controls, and maintenance practices in food processing and packaging environments, including sanitation and food safety constraints.
Demonstrated expertise in preventive and predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, root cause analysis, reliability centered maintenance, criticality analysis, backlog management, and outage execution.
Experience with maintenance, repair, and operations spare parts warehousing and inventory management, including critical spares strategy, cycle counting, storeroom layout, and kitting.
Proficiency with computerized maintenance management system (SAP or Maximo), Asset Performance Management, maintenance analytics, and Microsoft Office tools.
Demonstrated success leading maintenance and reliability across multiple sites through standardization, governance, and performance improvement.
Proven success leading through influence in a matrix organization and aligning site teams to enterprise standards and performance targets.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive healthcare plans
Wellness incentive program
Mental wellbeing support
Fitness reimbursement
Bonus incentive opportunity
Matching 401(k)
Stock purchase plan
Career development opportunities
Employee resource groups
On-demand learning
Tuition reimbursement
Paid-time off
Parental leave
Flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)
Volunteer opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

reliability engineeringasset managementpreventive maintenancepredictive maintenanceroot cause analysiscondition monitoringbudgetingcost controlwork managementperformance management

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingorganizational capabilityaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcommunicationinfluencecollaborationstrategic directionexecutive-level guidance

Certifications

Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional