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Director, Maintenance Reliability & Work Management

Conagra Brands · Omaha, NE

Level
Director+
Team
Reliability
Base pay
$135k–$200k
Travel
50%
Degree
Required
Industry
Food & beverage
Posted
9 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A director-level reliability role at Conagra Brands (food & beverage) in Omaha, NE.

They ask for
degree required
Base pay
$135k–$200k
Day to day
about 50% travel

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Reliability Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $105k–$145k. This one lists $135k–$200k.

Median of the low and high ends of 182 live postings that list pay, out of 500 reliability engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

Nebraska plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →

How this role compares

Against 499 other live reliability postings in the US.

Base pay
About 34% above similar roles

Typical $105k–$145k, from 180 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
Not stated

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • Root cause 54%
  • ✓ Team leadership 28%
  • FMEA 26%
  • Automation 24%

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This plant: Conagra Brands in Omaha

1 other open role at this site · 8 people we found in reliability roles at Conagra Brands.

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Responsibilities

  • ◆Lead the enterprise Maintenance Work Management strategy, establishing the vision, standards, implementation roadmap, role clarity, and governance model that support sustained business performance.
  • ◆Influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners to advance proactive and reactive maintenance practices and drive the organizational, process, system, and behavioral changes required for enterprise adoption and accountability.
  • ◆Establish the enterprise operating framework for work identification and control, prioritization, job planning, materials readiness, scheduling, execution, closeout, backlog management, shutdown coordination, and continuous improvement.
  • ◆Guide network-wide implementation and sustainment by aligning plant and corporate leaders on maturity priorities, improvement roadmaps, adoption expectations, and performance outcomes.
  • ◆Establish enterprise

requirements

and decision rights across the work-order lifecycle, from request and prioritization through planning, execution, feedback, completion, and closure.

  • ✓Shape enterprise job-planning expectations that improve safety, labor productivity, materials readiness, execution quality, equipment documentation, and post-job learning.
  • ✓Drive scheduling and backlog governance across the manufacturing network to improve capacity visibility, schedule compliance, shutdown readiness, and prioritization of critical work.
  • ✓Direct the enterprise business strategy and

requirements

for Systems, Applications, and Products Plant Maintenance and related digital capabilities, partnering with Information Technology, functional teams, data governance, and site stakeholders to prioritize and sustain high-value functionality, reporting, workflows, and enhancements.

  • ✓Provide governance for equipment master data, functional-location structures, bills of material, task lists, maintenance plans, work centers, statuses, coding, and related records to support effective execution and enterprise insight.
  • ✓Define the enterprise performance-management approach for work management, using key performance indicators and insights to influence priorities, direct support, assess progress, and inform leadership decisions.
  • ✓Establish the enterprise framework for controlled process documentation, standard work, training materials, system-utilization standards, and implementation playbooks.
  • ✓Build organizational capability and a sustainable talent pipeline through role-based development, leadership forums, cross-site communities of practice, coaching, and targeted technical support.
  • ✓Lead enterprise change strategy for major deployments by aligning stakeholders, communications, capability building, adoption measures, and sustainment routines.
  • ✓Influence Engineering and project leaders to embed maintenance and reliability

requirements

into capital planning and help ensure new and modified assets transition with complete strategies, data, documentation, training, and planned-work requirements.

  • ✓Align work management strategy with Maintenance, Repair, and Operations, reliability engineering, asset care, lubrication, technician capability, safety, quality, and Manufacturing Excellence priorities to maximize enterprise value.
  • ✓Lead a portfolio of complex, multi-site initiatives, providing strategic direction and influencing site teams, functional partners, contractors, and consulting resources to deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • ✓Promote a culture of safety, inclusion, engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement while modeling Conagra values across the manufacturing network.
  • ✓Travel approximately 50% to manufacturing sites, with occasional additional travel based on business and site support needs. Adjust working hours when needed to support plant operations, shutdowns, or implementations.

Ingredients Required for Your Success

  • ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance Reliability, Industrial Technology, Operations Management, or a related technical field, or an associate's degree with equivalent relevant experience.
  • ✓10 or more years of maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing experience, including leadership responsibility for maintenance planning, scheduling, work management, or asset reliability programs.
  • ✓Progressive maintenance and reliability experience in a manufacturing environment, including maintenance planning, scheduling, supervision, or management.
  • ✓Demonstrated success leading maintenance, reliability, and work management programs in manufacturing, industrial, or consumer packaged goods environments, including implementing and sustaining enterprise standards and best practices across multiple manufacturing sites.
  • ✓Expert knowledge of maintenance work management, including work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, closeout, backlog management, shutdowns, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement.
  • ✓Strong working knowledge of Systems, Applications, and Products Plant Maintenance or a comparable enterprise asset management system. Advanced experience with master data, bills of material, task lists, maintenance plans, materials, scheduling, statuses, revisions, and deadline monitoring i
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Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead the enterprise strategy, standards, capability, and continuous improvement for maintenance work management across Conagra manufacturing sites. You will establish and sustain a consistent operating system for identifying, prioritizing, planning, scheduling, executing, closing, and improving proactive and reactive maintenance work. You will partner with plant leadership, Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Information Technology, Maintenance, Repair, and Operations, Reliability Engineering, and the Reliability Center of Excellence to improve asset availability, maintenance productivity, schedule predictability, data quality, and sustainable business performance.

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