Reliability Technologist

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Bel Brands USA has been named Chicago's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" for 10years in a row. The company is headquartered in Chicago and operates three manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI, Leitchfield, KY, and Brookings, SD.

The Reliability Technologistisresponsible  for improving operational performance (OEE) thru improved technical performance ofthe plant equipment. This rolehasspecific responsibilities related to Preventative Maintenance programs and maintenance training programs.

• Partner with other Technical Services teammembersand Maintenancepersonnelto prescribe, plan and ensure effectiveness of preventive and predictive maintenance processes for the facility. Recommend changes as appropriate.
• Create and updates the maintenance plans (equipment,FMEA ,spare parts, technical documentation)
• Establish and own the adjustment sequences of equipment.
• Own the red point process
• Help to define the indicators of maintenance communication board
• Suggest solutions for the elimination of obsolete equipment
• Collaborate with the Parts Room Specialist, Maintenance Supervisors, and Technical Service steam membersto standardize andoptimizethe parts room inventory levels while meeting MTBF and cost requirements.
• Partner with Maintenance Supervisors inmaintainingeffective organization of the maintenance workshop, including organization, 5S adherence, etc.
• Provide technical expertise to the plant maintenance team in troubleshooting activities.
• Assume ownership for development and execution of one or more reliability programs, which may include metrology management, red pointmanagementor training programs.
• Develop,maintain and implement maintenance training programs.
• Facilitate maintenance training and technician qualification/validation in partnership with Maintenance leadership.
• Collaborate with Reliability Engineers tomaintainand improve the CMMS software system (CORIM), including maintenance task management practices, technical profile management, etc.
• Design or edit the equipment tree as needed to support proper information input/output
• Train others how to use the CMMS and the desktop tools for monitoring malfunctions
• Create, implement, and audit maintenance indicators and inform of any deviation
• Participate in the development of maintenance budget (for major planned maintenance)
• Suggest and implement the structure changes of CMMS to be more efficient
• Collaborate in the design of engineering pr oposals to ensure maintainability of equipment . Manage and lead small engineering projects as required .
• Participate in the analysis andthe development of the project.
• Write the functional FMEA andvalidateit.
• In partnership with suppliers, evaluate and definetechnicalsolutions andvalidatetheir feasibility.
• Consults andparticipatesin theselectionof suppliers.
• Follow the technical side qualifications as needed and complete new PM tasks and PM plans.
• Organize the appropriate technical files for projects as they are completed
• Ensure the transfer to production and maintenance (qualification, documentation, and follow-through)
• Ensure the technical reliability ofFFSand Packaging Equipment sand  help to improve their level of OEE and quality performance mainly throughfacilitatingthe meetings and follow-ups of the OEE Group.
• Participate actively inOEEgroups for each workshop.
• Help to prioritize actions from the daily results in the maintenance work order meeting.
• Participate in any progress plans with the suppliers.
• Take into account the requirements of industrial and food safety in the interventions, procedures, of preventiveandpredictivemaintenance ranges.
• Mentor and provide support/ training/ guidance to others within the plant in areas related to troubleshooting, repairs, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, industrialsafetyand food safety.
• Make basic changes to automatedcontrolsprogrammingas necessary. Collaborate with Reliability Engineers or subject matter experts on more complex programming needs.
• All other duties as assigned

Plant OEE, Maintenance Breakdowns, PM Efficiency

• EDUCATION
  • B achelor’s Degree in a technical field or an Associate’s Degree in a field related to industrial maintenance preferred , or 10years of experience in leu of a degree.
• EXPERIENCE
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in
    
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