Automation Reliability & Performance Manager

Florence · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

The Automation Reliability & Performance Manager is accountable for the performance of the robotic assembly equipment at CVG, the Florence, KY production site.
This role leads a team of Automation Engineers, reporting to the Site Operations Director, and works across Automation/Controls, Software, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Design, Quality, and equipment vendors.
Responsibilities include driving automation performance, managing a 24/7 on-call escalation rotation, building a full-spectrum maintenance program, running the moonshine shop, and owning spare parts inventory.

Ensure every equipment stop is captured completely and correctly with standardized failure and downtime reason codes.
Collect feedback from the floor and run shift handovers and a weekly review of findings.
Pareto losses by frequency, duration, and impact, maintaining a ranked top-loss list.
Drive improvements across functions, owning the action tracker and following every item to closure.
Feed recurring failure modes back into Bright Machines equipment and software roadmap.
Verify every countermeasure with before/after data to confirm availability changes.
Manage a team of Automation Engineers supporting 24/7 shift coverage, scheduling, and response-time commitments.
Own maintenance safety practices for all robotic and automated equipment, including LOTO, NFPA 70E, and safe work inside robot cells.
Build and own a full-spectrum maintenance program covering Asset Criticality, Autonomous Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, and Predictive Maintenance.
Serve as the technical point of contact for final machine acceptance and manage spare parts inventory.

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
7+ years in reliability, maintenance, or automation engineering, including 3+ years leading a technical team in a high-mix robotic or automated environment.
A track record of improving equipment availability through structured loss analysis.
Experience building or fixing downtime and failure data capture, including reason code structures, stop definitions, and data quality discipline.
Proven ability to drive improvements through functions you don't manage using data rather than escalation.
Strong root cause analysis skills such as 5-Why, fishbone, or PFMEA.
Working knowledge of OEE loss structures and TPM, and of criticality-based maintenance planning.
Comfort with automation hardware including servo systems, pneumatics, vision systems, conveyors, and end-of-arm tooling.
Ability to read and troubleshoot PLC logic and familiarity with industrial robot controllers.
Availability outside standard hours as the final escalation point for a 24/7 operation.

Experience in contract manufacturing or customer-facing production environments.
Background in electronics assembly, PCB handling, or server/data center hardware manufacturing.
Experience working with an equipment OEM's engineering team, or on the OEM side, feeding field performance back into machine design.
Hands-on experience with MES integration or working alongside software and systems engineering teams.
Formal RCM or FMEA facilitation experience.
Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or similar.
Formal Lean/TPM practitioner experience.

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