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