Reliability Engineer

Overview

The Reliability Engineer's main goal is to boost the reliability, availability, and performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities, ensuring smooth operations, reducing downtime, and improving efficiency and profits. They proactively pinpoint potential failures or weaknesses and create strategies to prevent or lessen these issues. The reliability engineer ensures safety standards and regulatory compliance, including adherence to SQF (Safe Quality Food) requirements.

Job Category:
Engineering
Job Family:
Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

• Asset Optimization:
  Optimizes the performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities by identifying opportunities for improvement in reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Data Analysis:
  Evaluates data from equipment sensors, maintenance records, and other sources to identify trends and patterns that may indicate potential reliability issues or opportunities for improvement. Uses advanced statistics and engineering mathematics for analysis.
• Failure & Root Cause:
  Investigates the root causes of failures to understand why they happened and how they can be prevented in the future.
• Asset Care Strategy:
  Develops and improves proactive, predictive, and preventive maintenance and tool strategy to ensure that equipment is properly maintained and serviced to prevent unplanned downtime and equipment failures.
• Risk Assessment:
  Assesses potential risks associated with equipment failures and develops strategies to mitigate these risks, such as implementing redundancy measures or upgrading critical equipment.
• Collaboration:
  
  Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including maintenance, operations, engineering, Environmental Health Safety, and quality assurance, to ensure alignment on reliability goals and initiatives.
• Lifecycle Management:
  Develops strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets, including asset replacement, upgrades, and decommissioning, to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness over time.
• Compliance & Customer Requirements:
  With leadership, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents when procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• Experience levels:
  • Entry Level: 0-3 years in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma)
  • Intermediate Level: 3-10 years in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma)
  • Advanced Level: 10+ years in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma)
• Experience in Data Analytics, Vibration Monitoring, Tribology, Manufacturing/Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, proven record of asset performance improvement
• Understanding of world-class reliability and maintenance concepts, metrics, statistics, project management, data analytics, engineering principles, ISO standards, manufacturing, risk management, regulatory compliance, planning & scheduling, proactive and predictive maintenance.
• Skills regarding failure detection and care of electronics, PLCs, robotics, boilers & refrigeration equipment, and infrastructure.
• Ability to travel up to 10-15% quarterly to other Schreiber locations, suppliers/vendors.

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits. Employee…