Continuous Process Improvement Sr Manager - 27 at Clorox in Alpharetta, GA

Job description

Clorox is the place that’s committed to growth – for our people and our brands. Guided by our purpose and values, and with people at the center of everything we do, we believe every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates. Join our team. #CloroxIsThePlace Your role at Clorox: The Maintenance & Reliability Excellence Coach is responsible for driving the implementation and sustainability of maintenance best practices, asset care systems, reliability engineering processes, and digital maintenance capabilities across multiple manufacturing sites. This role partners with plant leadership, maintenance teams, and storeroom organizations to improve asset reliability, reduce reactive maintenance, optimize maintenance spending, and enhance overall manufacturing performance through standardized processes, training, and coaching. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), MRO storeroom management, Reliability Engineering, and Asset Care systems. In this role, you will: Lead deployment of maintenance and reliability best practices across multiple manufacturing facilities to improve equipment performance and uptime. Coach plant and maintenance teams on Asset Care, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, RCM, TPM, and Work Management. Reduce reactive maintenance by strengthening planning, scheduling, defect elimination, preventive maintenance, and equipment reliability programs. Serve as an SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) subject matter expert, driving consistent processes for work orders, preventive maintenance, planning, scheduling, backlog management, and shutdown/turnaround planning. Improve SAP PM data quality and governance, including equipment hierarchies, functional locations, failure coding, and maintenance of master data. Provide expertise in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and MRO storeroom processes, including spare parts optimization, inventory accuracy, cycle counting, and critical spare identification. Partner with procurement and supply chain teams to improve spare-parts availability, reduce obsolete inventory, and optimize MRO inventory investment. Conduct maintenance assessments, GEMBA reviews, and process health checks to identify performance gaps and develop corrective action plans with site leadership. Build organizational capability through training, workshops, standardized work processes, documentation, coaching, and sharing best practices across manufacturing sites. Monitor and analyze key maintenance and reliability KPIs, including PM compliance, schedule compliance, planned vs. reactive work, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost, equipment uptime, spare-parts availability, and inventory accuracy to identify improvement and cost-reduction opportunities. What we look for: Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Technology, or a related field, or 15+ years of relevant experience. 7+ years of experience in manufacturing maintenance, reliability engineering, maintenance systems, or maintenance leadership within a plant/manufacturing environment. Strong expertise in Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Asset Care, RCM, and TPM/Operational Excellence methodologies. Advanced working knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), including work management, preventive maintenance, equipment hierarchies, maintenance planning, backlog management, and data governance. Experience with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and MRO/storeroom operations, including spare-parts optimization, inventory accuracy, critical spares, and material master data. Demonstrated ability to coach and influence cross-functional teams and leaders without direct authority, with strong facilitation, training, communication, continuous improvement, a