Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Join Global Cellulose Fibers as a Mechanical Reliability Engineer at our Columbus, MS facility.

Location: Columbus, MS

Pay Rate: $95,000 - $130,000 (Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.)

Category/Shift: Salaried Full-Time

This position supports Global Cellulose Fibers’ Columbus Modified Fiber facility (CMF), a converting operation that produces specialty fibers used in the production of diapers and other absorbent personal care products. We have an immediate opening for a Mechanical Reliability Engineer. The primary purpose for this position is to improve overall mill performance by increasing equipment uptime and the life of our assets, and eliminating unscheduled downtime and reducing end‑of‑life failures between outages.

The Mechanical Reliability Engineer’s focus is on making sustainable improvements to critical manufacturing systems. This position reports directly to the Maintenance Manager and is a member of the facility’s Extended Leadership Team.

The Reliability Engineer’s main responsibility is to take the lead in maintaining and improving the reliability of our process equipment. A successful reliability engineer will be able to interact with all areas/parts of the organization. They must work hand‑in‑hand with both Maintenance and Operations while being able to communicate effectively with suppliers, sales engineers, and other technology support. They will partner with Operations and Maintenance leaders to support the Manufacturing Work Systems (MWS) process.

In crisis situations they must be able to provide good technical direction, quickly pull together corrective action plans, and roll up their sleeves to lend a hand when needed.

• Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results.
• Work with Operations and Maintenance teams to implement strategic maintenance initiatives that support achievement of reliability objectives, key performance metrics, and maintenance cost objectives.
• Support Maintenance training processes in alignment with the Global Manufacturing Training Initiative (GMTI) to ensure highly skilled team members.
• Improve maintenance work efficiency by applying Precision Maintenance Techniques.
• Build effective systems and materials such as standard operating procedures (SOP), troubleshooting documents (TCC), and other training materials.
• Support the Maintenance Front Line Leader and Planners during the planning and execution phases of outages.
• Develop solutions to chronic repetitive failures by analyzing data. Be the owner of the chronic reliability list and lead efforts to provide priority resolutions to these issues.
• Support and provide expertise for repair jobs and capital projects.
• Serve as a contractor coordinator (IPCC) as required.
• Rotate with other leaders to provide Weekend Duty leadership.

• Own maintenance strategy. Reliability engineers are responsible for defining, developing, administering, and refining the equipment care programs.
• Predictive Maintenance:
  Develop routes, ensure communication between Maintenance team and technicians.
• Preventative Maintenance:
  Support development of mechanical PM’s for each area; develop routes and manage the program and communication.
• Support Maintenance team:
  Help resolve technical issues or repair procedures as required; work closely with the maintenance FLL as needed; MWS Team participation.
• Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) Facilitation:
  Champion use of RCFA. Lead Maintenance RCFA and ensure engagement of workforce, proper root causes identified, and action items are completed.
• Coordinate priorities with operations.
• MWS Work participation; participate in reviewing and prioritizing work orders, ensure proper preventative maintenance outage work is completed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 3+ years of industrial experience.
• Non‑degreed candidates with significant experience in a related function will also be considered.
• Experience in the pulp and paper industry is…