Job Description

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The Role and Your Impact:

The Regional Maintenance Excellence & Reliability Partner, Microbes Americas advances consistent maintenance, reliability, and asset performance across all Microbes manufacturing sites in the Americas. This role connects site execution to Novonesis’ Global Maintenance Excellence framework, Production & Projects Blueprint, and Asset Lifecycle AC2R (acquire to retire) standards while maintaining local accountability.

Key Responsibilities in this role:

• Implement and sustain the Global Maintenance Excellence framework across Microbes Americas sites.
• Convert global standards into regional roadmaps, maturity goals, and site execution plans.
• Set minimum requirements while allowing controlled site-level adaptation.
• Represent the region in global governance forums and communities of practice.
• Lead regional reliability and asset lifecycle management efforts.
• Advance asset criticality, PM/PdM strategies, RCA/RCFA (root cause failure analysis) and chronic loss elimination.
• Build a regional maintenance and reliability network to share best practices.
• Partner with site maintenance, reliability, engineering, and capital project teams through design, commissioning, and handover to improve asset availability and stability.
• Support refurbishment, AC2R, and replacement strategies based on lifecycle economics.
• Identify and adopt relevant best practices from external networks.

What you’ll need to be successful:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience in asset-intensive manufacturing.
• 5–10+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability, or asset management in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting maintenance and reliability across multiple sites or in a regional or global organization.
• Strong knowledge of reliability practices, including asset criticality, preventive and predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, and loss elimination.
• Experience with continuous improvement methods such as Lean, Six Sigma, or the Toyota Production System is preferred.
• Working knowledge of SAP EAM, CMMS, or a similar enterprise asset management system is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across functions, sites, and organizational levels.

Additional skills & interests we value:

• Professional certification in maintenance, reliability, or asset management, such as CMRP, CRE, or ISO 55001.
• Proven application of reliability engineering practices, including asset criticality, PM/PdM, RCA/RCFA, and loss elimination.
• Experience turning global maintenance standards into practical site-level actions.
• Experience strengthening maintenance and reliability capabilities and sharing best practices across sites.
• Ability to travel regularly among Microbes Americas sites.
• Ability to work frequently in manufacturing environments while using required PPE and following GMP requirements.

Ways of Working:

Onsite position working in Madison, WI

Travel: Approximately 15% to microbes sites in WI, VA, and Canada and any business needs.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Expected base salary range: $110,000 – $145,000 based on experience
• 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution 
• Minimum of 3 weeks of vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time  
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance   
• Healthcare savings account option  
• Employee assistance program  
• Parental leave 
• Tuition reimbursement  
• All benefits begin on your first day
• Application deadline: November 16, 2026

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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