Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exol provides outsourced warehousing services through flexible, scalable, and automated warehouse operations. Exol is seeking a Senior Manager, Reliability Engineering to establish and scale enterprise reliability, maintenance, and asset performance strategies across automated fulfillment sites, supporting uptime, safety, cost control, launches, vendor governance, and executive decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale the reliability strategy for automated fulfillment and material handling operations
- Establish enterprise reliability standards and performance expectations across sites
- Identify critical assets and failure risks impacting throughput, safety, and cost, lead root cause analysis and permanent fixes
- Design risk-based maintenance approaches aligned to business impact and asset criticality
- Partner with Automation and Engineering teams to influence system design for long term reliability
- Define reliability data standards, KPIs, and reporting within CMMS and related systems
- Analyze downtime, performance trends, and cost drivers to support staffing, capital, and vendor decisions
- Support new site launches by ensuring reliability readiness, documentation, and clean handoff to operations
- Standardize learnings to enable repeatable, predictable site deployments at scale
- Lead OEM and vendor partnerships, including performance governance and escalation management
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, IT, Safety, Finance, and Supply Chain to align reliability priorities
- Communicate risks, trends, and improvement opportunities clearly to senior leadership
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Reliability, or related field) or equivalent experience required
- Minimum 12 years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, or asset performance roles
- Experience supporting automated or highly mechanized environments such as robotics, AS/RS, conveyors, AGVs, or automated material handling systems
- Strong understanding of reliability principles, asset lifecycle management, and failure analysis
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical issues into business risk and financial impact
- Experience working with CMMS platforms and performance reporting tools
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to lead through influence rather than direct authority
- Clear, concise communication skills suitable for executive audiences
- Ability to work in active warehouse and automation environments, including multi-level structures and elevated platforms
- Must be able to comply with all safety requirements, including PPE, LOTO, and fall protection standards
- Extended onsite presence may be required during critical launches or stabilization periods
- Up to 60% travel may be required
- Employees must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations
- Proven experience influencing multi-site operations or enterprise programs preferred
- Startup, ramp up, or greenfield launch experience strongly preferred
Benefits
- Business expenses are reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.
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