Joe Kuhn

Joe Kuhn worked at Alcoa Corporation for 32 years. Joe was an operations leader for 29 years, a plant manager three times, and the global director for reliability and maintenance serving 31 locations in eight countries. Joe retired as the plant manager of Alcoa’s Massive Warrick Operations in 2019. Presently Joe is passionate about changing how reliability and maintenance is deployed in plants. He is a Reliability and Maintenance speaker, produces a YouTube Channel (search Joe Kuhn), magazine contributor, author, and has been featured on podcasts.  He consults, coaches, and mentors leaders, technicians and engineers. He has a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering and is a CMRP. Joe is married to Lisa for 35 years and has 4 adult children – all Purdue Engineers. Joe is currently president of Lean Driven Reliability LLC, creator of the YouTube channel “Reliability Man” and author of the book “Zero to Hero: How to jumpstart your reliability journey given today’s business challenges."