Adidas SENIOR RELIABILITY ENGINEER 

China, Shanghai, Yangpu District 

382398121

• In collaboration with the Senior Workplace Manager, develop and implement a preventative maintenance and predictive maintenance plan.
• Identify optimization opportunities for existing infrastructure and lead root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement.
• Track the end of life/functional obsolescence and develop a five year capital plan to ensure replacements and upgrades are achieved in a timely fashion.
• Partner with the maintenance manager to ensure the appropriate spare parts inventory is on hand.
• Partner with the engineering team and Health & Safety to ensure the management of change process is followed and ensure optimization projects are implemented seamlessly and safely.
• Act as a consultant to assist the Workplace Managers at our other North American DCs on conveyor topics.
• Manage external services to develop and ensure optimal provision of assigned adidas services at the respective region
• Manage and steer operational processes of services. Ensure all service-related qualities, policies, standards and processes to achieve maximum customer satisfaction
• Independent responsibility for quality management, e.g. workshops for steering service providers or for quality assurance and process optimisation
• Internal and external communication (customers, service providers, suppliers)
• Introduce and ensure a leadership culture based on adidas principles within the entire department and across all hierarchical levels
• Drive team performance through setting clear expectations and priority management.
• Foster team behaviour that drives learning and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring operator’s responsibility and employer obligations with regard to occupational health and safety, for the respective area of responsibility, in accordance with applicable laws and guidelines, as well as minimizing possible risks.

• adidas employees
• Workplaces regional operation leaders
• Respective business functions (GOPS, Finance, IT, Brands, Sales, Security, …)
• External suppliers
• Landlords
• Authorities

• Ability to think outside the box to ensure continuous, strategic and conceptual improvement, as well as to implement an end-to-end mindset
• The ability to create a clear framework for the work of team members / project teams
• Ability to coach and lead (project) teams
• Focus on service and customer satisfaction, people management/leadership culture
• Project management experience
• Good communication skills
• Strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Very good English skills; Spanish or Portuguese a plus
• Motivated, proactive and innovative implementation of corporate goals
• Project management, quality management and purchasing experience
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with different international cultures.

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Degree with a focus on facility management, industrial engineer, economics or related fields or equivalent combination of training and experience
• Minimum 7 years working experience in respective area
• 2+ years of experience in leading a business area and in people management
• Experience in medium to large project or program management
• Experience with materials handling equipment operations

*adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility supportof paid parental leave.

*Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance and RSU offering. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.

*We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. The working location of this position is Spartanburg, SC .