Reliability Engineer

A REGULAR DAY AT WORK

The Reliability Engineer / Specialist will be responsible for improving and optimizing safety and manufacturing operations by improving the reliability/availability of process equipment.  The Reliability Engineer /Specialist will be expected to lead the Maintenance Technicians in the use of industrial reliability practices, incorporating new practices and technologies as applicable.  This position will support and facilitate development and application of maintenance best practices through close collaboration with the Production and Maintenance departments; as well, as external benchmarking of industry best practices.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Increase overall plant equipment uptime, productivity, throughput, safety, and profitability through implementing a Reliability Program.
• Utilize high level troubleshooting skills to analyze, repair, and eliminate reoccurrence of critical equipment and systems issues.
• Plant-wide responsibility to justify, prioritize, and schedule the most critical and high impact reliability opportunities through a team-based approach receiving input from primary stakeholders
• Improve proactive/reactive maintenance ratio through analyzing appropriate PM, PdM, and Corrective Maintenance systems to alleviate breakdown maintenance.
• Organize, develop, and improve Preventive Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance programs utilizing, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, 5 Why Analysis, FMEA, RCA, RCCM, Criticality Assessments, and other appropriate reliability techniques.
• Develop and manage predictive maintenance/condition based monitoring program, to include establishing CBM routes & baseline data, implementing the use of PdM/CBM measurement tools, assessing training needs, developing/implementing training, and defining program KPI''s.
• Lead/Coach/Train/Grow Reliability Technicians with Condition Monitoring Techniques and data collection, in addition to the entire maintenance staff with proper Precision Maintenance, Lubrication Basics, and other pertinent Reliability Basics to reduce Infant Mortality and wear.

You

• You can quickly understand and assess a situation and react confidently, making decisions even where there is ambiguity.
• You always strive for better, in your work and for your future.
• You ask and you listen, you take ideas on board and work with your team, taking everyone in the same direction.
• You start and you finish, taking responsibility for getting things done, on time and to high quality, tying up all the loose ends along the way. 
• You not only know your area of expertise, you’re passionate about it and how it can enable and support people to work better and achieve more.
• You set the pace and the priorities, and then you bring a methodical approach to meeting your goals.