Job Summary/Objective:

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. 

Key aspects of this position include: 

• 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. 

Promoting the following reliability strategies: 

• Planned corrective maintenance is more effective than reactive maintenance. 
• Time based preventive maintenance is more effective than plan corrective maintenance.
• Condition based (predictive) maintenance is more effective than time based preventive maintenance. 
• Prevention of maintenance is the best comprehensive maintenance strategy. 
• 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. 

Must Haves:

• Bachelor Degree
• 4 years in a reliability title position
• 4 years in Preventive Maintenance  
• 4 years in Predictive Maintenance