Gene Jolley
Maintenance & Reliability Leader — Automation-Minded
YEARS IN MAINTENANCE 30+
SECTOR Industrial & Utility
BACKGROUND Air Force Veteran
Managed preventive maintenance work for hydro generation and steam boiler operations from a work-management perspective — planning, scheduling, and outage coordination across critical generating assets.
Started as maintenance supervisor over a handful of buildings, then moved into maintenance manager over the full industrial region — eight buildings. Rolled out the Asset Essentials CMMS across those locations, and now building out preventive maintenance programs as the company extends Asset Essentials company-wide.
Military service before moving into a civilian career built on the same discipline: plan the work, work the plan.
Building preventive maintenance programs that technicians actually follow, not just ones that look good on paper.
Getting a computerized maintenance management system like Asset Essentials actually adopted across multiple sites, not just installed.
Using data and automation — APIs, production systems, AI tools — to catch problems earlier and cut down on reactive maintenance.
Managing maintenance teams day to day while still pushing higher-value work forward — the two don't have to trade off.
I'm building Reliability Reset, a consulting practice built on 30+ years in maintenance and reliability — helping other companies get real, sustained results from PM programs and reliability tools, not just another rollout that fades after six months. More details coming as this takes shape.