Senior Director Maintenance & Reliability

Reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, you will lead the enterprise Maintenance organization and set the strategic direction for reliability, asset management, and maintenance execution across all manufacturing sites. You will establish and govern maintenance standards, performance systems, and reliability programs that improve safety, compliance, asset availability, and total cost of ownership. You will 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. You will develop leaders and build organizational capability through clear accountability, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement while providing executive‑level technical guidance during critical events.

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Environmental Health and Safety, Quality and Food Safety, Risk, Procurement, and Finance to define enterprise maintenance strategy, priorities, and performance expectations.
• 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.

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• 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.

Compensation 

Pay Range:$153,000-$236,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.