Regional Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

At BerQ RNG, we turn waste into opportunity.

We're on a mission to make renewable natural gas a mainstream, reliable, and part of North America's clean energy future, capturing biogas that would otherwise be flared into the atmosphere and transforming it into something valuable: clean, renewable fuel.

Across the U.S. and Canada, countless sites release biogas because it's "too hard" or "too expensive" to use. We see that as a challenge worth solving. Our team builds, owns, and operates RNG projects that prove sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand. Every project we develop helps farmers, communities, and investors participate in the energy transition while directly reducing emissions. For more information on BerQ RNG, please visit our website at

Job Description

The Regional Maintenance and Reliability Manager will be the accountable leader for maintenance and reliability outcomes at Platte River Biogas in La Salle, Colorado, with the potential to support other BerQ RNG sites in the region. Reporting to the Director of Reliability & Maintenance, this position combines hands-on maintenance leadership with reliability engineering discipline to maximize plant uptime, increase planned and proactive work, optimize maintenance programs, and build a strong multi-craft site team.

The position will lead maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS management, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, root cause analysis, contractor strategy, critical spares management, and maintenance performance reporting. The Regional Maintenance and Reliability Manager will also provide technical leadership to maintenance, operations, and contractors and help translate BerQ RNG's fleet-wide maintenance standards into effective day-to-day site practices.

Responsibilities:

• Lead site maintenance operations and team development, including the Maintenance Foreman and multi-craft maintenance team across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and controls. Set priorities and accountability, assess skills, support recruitment and onboarding, and provide technical guidance to technicians, Operations, and contractors.
• Own maintenance planning, scheduling, and work management, including weekly scheduling, work-order prioritization, backlog management, preventive maintenance compliance, and development of a proactive maintenance culture.
• Manage CMMS performance and data integrity, ensuring accurate asset hierarchies, work orders, failure information, labor-hour capture, inventory records, and maintenance reporting.
• Lead reliability engineering and continuous improvement, including equipment criticality assessments, FMEA, root cause analysis, identification of recurring equipment failures, corrective actions, and optimization of preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Manage asset reliability and critical spares, including spare parts strategy and inventory, condition monitoring of critical assets, and reliability of gas quality, metering, analyzer, emissions control, and other equipment supporting pipeline injection and regulatory requirements.
• Lead outage and shutdown planning, including annual plant shutdowns, digester cleanouts, equipment modifications, and shutdown support.
• Manage maintenance contractors and external resources, including scope, cost control, spending caps, performance, and monthly reporting, while building in-house capability for routine electrical, instrumentation, and controls work.
• Maintain technical standards and documentation, including as-built drawings, O&M manuals, maintenance SOPs, and other technical documentation. Develop and deliver equipment and maintenance training for site personnel.
• Own maintenance performance and reporting, including PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog health, reactive labor, MTBF, MTTR, uptime, contractor hours, maintenance costs, and the regional maintenance budget, including forecasting, variance reporting, and capital requests.
• Support capital planning and reliability-driven investments, identifying retrofit, replacement, and other opportunities to improve reliability, reduce waste, energy consumption, and emissions.
• Promote a strong safety culture, ensuring maintenance activities follow applicable safety procedures and requirements and supporting safe execution of work by employees and contractors.
• Support regional and fleet-wide reliability initiatives, applying BerQ RNG maintenance standards and KPI definitions and partnering with the Director of Reliability & Maintenance and other teams to continuously improve maintenance and reliability practices.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in industrial maintenance, reliability, or asset management leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field is an asset; CMRP certification or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience in RNG, renewable energy, utilities, or other asset-intensive process industries is preferred.
• Proven experience developing and managing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, maintenance planning, scheduling, and work-order management.
• Strong CMMS expertise; Maintenance Connection preferred, with experience in SAP, Maximo, Fiix, Infor, or similar systems considered an asset. Proficiency in Excel required.
• Demonstrated experience establishing and managing maintenance KPIs, including PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, backlog, uptime, and maintenance costs.
• Strong root cause analysis experience, including FMEA and corrective action leadership, with knowledge of spare parts strategy and critical spares optimization.
• Hands-on knowledge of biogas and RNG process equipment, such as digesters, gas compressors, gas conditioning and cleanup systems, boilers, and generators.
• Working knowledge of electrical, instrumentation, and controls fundamentals, with familiarity with SCADA systems and data historians sufficient to direct troubleshooting and contractor work.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, PFDs, and electrical and mechanical drawings.
• Demonstrated experience managing maintenance contractors, including scope, cost control, and performance reporting.
• Strong leadership, change management, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to influence effectively across teams.
• Valid driver's license and willingness to travel within Canada and the U.S. as needed.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to after-hours callouts, with weekend and holiday work as needed, particularly during outages and shutdowns.
• Ability to work in outdoor industrial environments, including at heights and in confined spaces, wear required PPE, and lift up to 50 lbs.

In addition to a collaborative and supportive work environment, BerQ RNG offers:

• Competitive salary.
• Annual performance incentive bonus opportunity.
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and health and disability benefits coverage for you and your family.
• 401k Retirement Plan with company match.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• A culture that values teamwork, collaboration, and opportunity for growth and development.

BerQ RNG is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting a work environment that embraces diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect. BerQ RNG provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, age, sex, national origin, veteran status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable Federal, state, and local laws.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the US with no restrictions.