Manager, OET Facilities & Reliability

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:

This position title is Manager, DCET Facilities & Systems.  You will report to a Senior Manager, Facilities and Reliability and this role can be based in Lake Forest, IL.  This position involves approximately 50% travel.

  
You Will: 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team supporting the facility reliability. 

• Foster a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. 

• Support and facilitate facilities pillar workstreams. 

• Execute reliability strategies to ensure the reliability and efficiency of all distribution center equipment and systems. 

• Assist with executing preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance activities. 

• Partner with DC Facility Managers, Techs, and Controls Engineers for MHE and WCS components with a goal of improving throughput, reliability, and uptime. 

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track maintenance performance and reliability metrics. 

• Assist with root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective actions to address equipment failures and reduce downtime. 

• Collaborate with operations, engineering, and corporate facilities teams to optimize equipment performance and enhance overall facility efficiency. 

• Ensure the efficient allocation of resources, including labor, materials, and equipment. 

• Implement cost-saving initiatives while maintaining high facility and reliability standards. 

• Assist with conducting regular safety audits and risk assessments. 

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and maintenance processes. 

• Establish and implement plan to audit mechanical systems while partnering with local facilities teams and report out results and action items. 

• Be able to travel to DC locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico to conduct with MHE mechanical/controls audits. 

• Ensure spare parts of critical elements of conveyance systems are available and report out deficiencies with plans to correct. 

• Create a standardize process to publish conveyance and scanner performance metrics across the DC network. 

• Support, establish, and publish conveyance metrics to drive consistency and improve the overall DC performance.        

• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in maintenance engineering. 

• Implement innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. 

• Manage relationships with equipment vendors, contractors, and service providers. 

• Partner with IP to negotiate contracts and service agreements to ensure optimal performance and value. 

• Partner with GTG’s to create open dialogue regarding actions taken by the business, vendors, and GTG to address improvement opportunities. 

• Oversee the quality of work performed by external vendors and contractors. 

• Implement and conduct a quarterly review process to ensure SLA compliance of our vendors and internal partners. 

• Ability to consistently attend outage calls (including weekends/nights/holidays) and be on-call to respond to outage situations on short notice. 

• Collect, populate DC outages, and input information into outage tracker.   

• Report/publish outage logs with root cause analysis & maintain an archive that can be use by team to help troubleshoot similar future events. 

• Publish actions taken to leadership and impacted partners in a timely manner. 

 
You Have: 

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in maintaining reliability within a distribution center or manufacturing environment. 

• Proven leadership, team, vendor management skills. 

• Strong knowledge of maintenance and reliability best practices, including preventive and predictive maintenance. 

• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles. 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. 

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. 

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. 

• Knowledge of safety regulations and compliance requirements. 

Rewards and Benefits: 

 With benefits starting day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs. Check out the highlights below and review all our benefits at GraingerTotalRewards.com. 

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance plans and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing 

• Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year 

• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no match required 

• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education and tools 

• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.