Reliability Engineer

Overview

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

The Thermal Ceramics division designs, manufactures and installs a broad range of thermal insulation products that significantly reduce energy consumption and emissions in a variety of high temperature processing applications. Our product offering is extensive and covers application needs from Industrial to Commercial markets.

Key Figures:
Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange;
Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY

The Reliability Engineer is a self-motivated individual that works equally well independently or as a part of a team. Must be skilled in root cause analysis techniques and effectively building consensus for solutions to issues. They document and oversee mitigation and intervention of identified issues to ensure that the temporary/permanent resolution is planned, scheduled, and implemented.

JOB FUNCTIONS

* Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, mechanical, electrical, control, and safety/security systems.

* Defines, develops, administers, and refines the asset management plan, maintenance plan, and preventive/predictive maintenance programs.

* Reduces and improves maintenance work wherever feasible, assuring efficiency, and productive operation, of processes and equipment. Protect and prolong the economic life of assets at the lowest practical cost.

* Be a team player that champion and leads the reliability process, and is able to communicate and build relationships with various functional, engineering, and business leaders in order to drive continuous improvement.

* A self-starter capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal oversight; working as a single entity with the ability to influence others to gain alignment.

* Supports the capital project process to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.

* Supports the Asset Operating Plan that provides standardized processes and procedures for proper operation and operator care of production, utility, and auxiliary assets.

* Develops engineered solutions to mitigate repetitive failures and problems that adversely affect plant availability, performance, capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance.

* Competent with data analysis techniques that can include Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reliability modeling and prediction, root cause analysis, downtime trends and Pareto analysis, and six sigma (6σ) methodology

* Competent in the implementation of Predictive/Condition-based methods/technologies that include Vibration analysis, lubrication, thermography, Ultrasonic sound and thickness, and machine alignment and balancing

* Support failure reporting; analysis and corrective actions systems.

* Maintains the Asset Maintenance Plans that define the maintenance practices for production, utility, and auxiliary assets. Including the development and optimization of the predictive and preventive maintenance programs for assets.

* Periodically compares PM/PdM frequencies to downtime reports and equipment histories to identify where frequencies require adjustment. Refining the frequencies on an "economic" basis to avoid "over maintenance".

* Regularly review equipment failures. Determine what PM action might have been taken to prevent failure in order to protect against recurrence.

* Develop…