The Reliability Engineer is responsible for identifying and managing risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.  The Reliability Engineer directs a Corporate-wide Asset Management Process that improves asset reliability and Total Cost of Ownership, as well as the processes, procedures and practices that ensure adherence to best practices.

As part of the overall Asset Management Plan, the Reliability Engineer is responsible for the development of an Asset Maintenance Plan and Asset Operating Plan that ensures adequate levels of sustaining maintenance for all assets.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Works with Plant Engineers and Maintenance at all locations to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and existing facilities and equipment.
  • Develops and implements a Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process for facilities and equipment at all locations.
  • Develops, implements and participates in a final check out process for new installations.  This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
  • Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.

  • Defines, implements, monitors and improves an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes:

  • Value-added preventive maintenance tasks.
  • Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
  • Defines, implements, monitors and improves an Asset Operating Plan that provides standardized processes and procedures for proper operation and operator care of production and other assets.
  • Defines, implements, monitors and improves Risk Management Plan that anticipates reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.

  • Analyses of asset and production system performance that can include;

  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness
  • Cost of Goods Sold
  • Remaining useful life
  • Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets
  • Drives the full utilization of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) as a foundation to our Reliability Management efforts.
  • Provides subject matter expert level technical support to production and maintenance management and technical personnel.
  • Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.
  • Leverages

  • Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.  These problems shall include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.  To fulfill this responsibility the Reliability Engineer shall apply:

  • Data analysis techniques.
  • Root-Cause Failure Analysis.
  • Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in an Engineering, Mfg Engineering or related discipline from a four-year college or university or the equivalent in experience.
  • Experienced Reliability Engineering practitioner with 3 or more years of experience developing and implementing results generating Reliability Engineering practices.
  • Experience with predictive maintenance technologies.
  • Ability to develop strong working relationships with team members, peers, and management at all levels.
  • Effective communicator, able to speak to all audiences throughout the organization, understanding the various needs of audience members, and tailoring the message to address their concerns. Strong written communication skills.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Reliability Engineering Degree.
  • 5 or more years of Reliability Engineering experience.
  • Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.

Physical Requirements

  • Ability to travel 25% of the time.
  • Ability to spend long durations standing/walking in a manufacturing environment with steep ladders and catwalks.
  • Ability to work more than 40 hours a week.

Work Environment

  • >50% of time will be spent in a loud, dusty manufacturing environment with wide variations in ambient conditions.  The remainder will be spent in an office environment.

Desired Skills and Experience

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