Job Description

Location(s)

Al Jubail, Eastern

Company

Guardian Industries

Career Field

Operations & Manufacturing

Job Number

194024

Your Job

As a Reliability Coater Manager, you will provide strategic leadership for the maintenance and reliability of critical coating line assets, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. You will play a key role in maximising equipment availability, improving operational performance, and driving continuous improvement initiatives that create value for the business, customers, and manufacturing operations.

Our Team

You will join a collaborative manufacturing team responsible for delivering operational excellence across coating operations. Working closely with Operations, Engineering, EHS, Quality, and Production teams, you will help drive reliability improvements, optimise asset performance, and support the site's long-term growth and strategic objectives.

What You Will Do

• Lead the reliability and maintenance strategy for critical coating line assets to improve equipment availability and operational performance.
• Create value through proactive maintenance programmes, reliability initiatives, and data-driven decision making.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities that enhance safety, quality, productivity, and manufacturing efficiency.
• Develop and mentor maintenance professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Drive root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions that reduce unplanned downtime and improve asset reliability.
• Lead shutdowns, turnarounds, and major maintenance activities to enable safe and effective execution of business priorities.
• Support capital projects, equipment upgrades, and commissioning activities that strengthen operational capability and future growth.
• Champion safety, environmental stewardship, and compliance while promoting a zero-incident mindset across the maintenance organisation.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience leading maintenance and reliability activities within an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing maintenance teams, contractors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience developing and executing preventive and predictive maintenance programmes.
• Experience utilising CMMS systems for maintenance planning, work management, and reporting.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, root cause analysis methodologies, and asset management practices.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Background supporting coating lines, metal processing, steel manufacturing, or continuous process operations.
• Knowledge of motors and drives, PLC/DCS systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, and rotating equipment.
• Proficiency with SAP PM or other advanced CMMS platforms.
• Demonstrated success leading shutdowns, turnarounds, and reliability improvement projects.
• Success driving Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Track record of managing maintenance budgets and executing capital improvement projects.
• Maintenance leadership experience within an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Industrial maintenance expertise supporting reliability and asset performance objectives.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.