Senior Manager - Engineering Asset Management

At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, Hilmar Cheese Company has been committed to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. The Cheese and Ingredients that we produce create a wide variety of retail and food service products from sliced and shredded cheeses, to protein supplements and infant formula. We are a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in more than fifty countries helping bring their vision into reality.

Throughout our decades of success and growth we have remained committed to our mission and values and these principles unite our people and guide all that we do.

A Typical Day

The Senior Manager, Asset Management - Engineering Services, leads Hilmar's asset management processes to optimize the delivery and performance of assets to ensure asset value realization. This role designs, implements, and manages enterprise asset management business processes, leading change management to drive adoption across the organization. This leader defines and facilitates processes for asset lifecycle planning, investment decisions, asset risk management frameworks, and value-based decision making to advance asset management maturity across the enterprise.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of Hilmar's asset management strategy.
• Develop and maintain asset management standards, processes, and governance.
• Establish asset management business process governance practices, including defining roles and responsibilities for asset management teams.
• Develop, implement, and lead business processes for asset plans, lifecycle strategies, and investment roadmaps.
• Lead asset criticality, asset integrity, and risk-based decision making and prioritization processes.
• Develop and manage asset management risk framework and business processes, ensuring risks are visible that the asset management strategy must consider, including supplier risks and procurement strategies.
• Develop and manage business processes to appraise asset investment options, apply whole life costing principles, and evaluate asset rationalization and technology options within a cost-risk optimization framework.
• Partner across the enterprise to define asset information standards, and specify, select, and integrate asset information systems to asset management business processes and strategies.
• Develop dashboards and reporting to support asset status, asset risk management, and decision making.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of asset management strategies.
• Partner with PMO teams, manufacturing, reliability, engineering, and finance to prioritize asset decisions and investments.
• Facilitate cross-functional asset management planning, governance, and improvement initiatives.
• Develop and communicate asset management plans, manage change relating to assets and systems, and enable asset knowledge across the enterprise.
• Lead change management efforts that support the adoption of asset management business processes, including identifying and implementing changes to individual and team roles and responsibilities.
• Collaborate with leadership to promote and shape Hilmar's asset management culture at the right pace, ensuring stakeholders are engaged as appropriate.
• Identify and implement best practices that improve asset performance and lifecycle value.
• Advance enterprise asset management maturity using IAM and ISO 55000 principles.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from ABET-accredited institution.
• 7+ years of experience in engineering, asset management, reliability, program or portfolio management, or related technical disciplines.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives and organizational change through complexity.
• Experience architecting business processes through organizational procedures and systems.
• Strong analytical, technical writing, business communication, facilitation, change management and stakeholder management skills.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with asset lifecycle management, engineering and technical risk management, or asset decision making governance.
• Experience implementing strategic asset management plans (SAMP) and processes, asset management systems, or PMO governance.
• PMP, IAM, or CRL certification.
• Prosci ADKAR or other change management certification.
• Tactical knowledge of production operations management for risk, quality, yield, and cost.
• Experience supporting multi-site dairy, utility, biotech, or pharma manufacturing operations.
• Experience with SAP, Visio, CMMS, EAM, Power BI, or asset performance management systems.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The role has periods of time when the work environment is sedentary and conducted in an office environment balanced with frequent occasions that require prolonged walking or standing, lifting/carrying/handling moderate weight objects on a regular basis. Is required to wear PPE and have a regular presence in manufacturing and warehouse environments in both temperature controlled and uncontrolled locations. Must frequently interact with people verbally. Specific details of the essential functions of the position is available in the Job Safety Analysis, made available on request.

Food safety is a companywide responsibility and each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high quality products.

This description is a general statement and does not include other duties as assigned

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/EEO. We participate in E-Verify.

The final compensation offered within this range will depend on factors including the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.