The Reliability Engineer champions the implementation of reliability best practices. This role will also evaluate new best-known methods and technologies to continuously improve equipment reliability.
Responsibilities: • Working with various plant teams and areas to identify, evaluate, and implement reliability improvement opportunities through changes to operating and maintenance procedures, and equipment upgrades. • Analyzing equipment history to identify reliability improvement opportunities. • Deploying root cause analysis methods and tools on problems or failures that have resulted in consequential impacts related to machine downtime and / or maintenance expense. • Participating in new equipment selection and deployment processes to ensure reliability and maintainability principles are included in the design and implementation activities. • Supporting the Autonomous Maintenance process by contributing to the design and selection of operator inspections and tasks to sustain equipment condition and performance. • Participating in audits to measure and validate progression and performance in the reliability journey. • Utilizing reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles to optimize the equipment maintenance strategy. • Serving as a subject matter expert of the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and assist in end user training efforts to ensure master and transactional data integrity and accuracy. • Serves as the facility RCA process champion and participates in failure analyses to identify corrective actions to eliminate failure modes or reduce the consequence of failure. • Interacts with reliability engineers at other plants to share findings from failure analyses along with solutions to problems identified. • Monitors equipment MTTR and MTBF performance to identify reliability improvement opportunities. • Examines defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity and utilizes this information for PM optimization. • Participates in new and modified equipment design and installations. • Assists in spare part reviews to ensure adequate stocking levels as determined by consumption due to normal wear and failure frequency. • Identifies risks of obsolescence and proposes mitigation strategies. • Introduces tools and techniques in performing preventive and predictive maintenance activity and prescribes frequency of activity through CMMS maintenance plans. • Provides training and support of precision maintenance processes such as alignment and balancing. • Develops a world class lubrication program and monitors performance and execution. • Supports autonomous activities and provides skills training to operations team members. • Drives proactivity performance through supervision of planners and participation in • scheduling activities with planners and coordinators. • Ensures CMMS users have been trained in system utilization, and audits activity to sustain system integrity. • Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant.
Requirements / Experience / Education: • 4 years' experience with problem solving using root cause analysis. • 4 years' experience in planning & scheduling maintenance work • 4 years' experience with any type of predictive maintenance technology. • 4 years' experience examining defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity