Reliability Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY / OBJECTIVE

Ensure the reliability and maintainability of existing, new, and modified site systems, equipment, processes, utilities, and infrastructure. Update and maintain all information related to asset information, asset bill of materials (BOM), maintenance safety procedures, preventative maintenance programming and master maintenance planning in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Assist with site capital projects.

• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an asset maintenance plan that includes:
  • Value‑added preventive maintenance (PM) tasks.
  • Effective utilization of predictive maintenance and other non‑destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
• Provides input to the Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability‑related and non‑reliability‑related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Tracks and publishes maintenance metrics; interprets data and recommends actions based on findings. These metrics include bad actor analysis and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.
• Maintains the CMMS, including documentation and system integrity of equipment BOMs and PMs, purchasing info records for spare parts, and master data records for vendors.
• Oversees the maintenance stockroom, ensuring that needed materials, parts, and supplies are stocked according to needs and appropriate inventory levels are maintained.
• Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers.
• Liaison for contracted MRO site service providers.
• Backup Purchasing Agent on purchase requisition creation, purchase order delivery, goods and service receipts, and invoice closure for projects with contracted MRO site service providers.
• Assists in site projects, P& LOTO updates.
• Tracks site budgets, including maintenance, outside services, and production supplies accounts.
• Provides training to maintenance software and application end users, serves as liaison for problem solving and escalation, and educates staff on the CMMS functions and best practices for performing tasks.
• Works with production to perform analyses of assets, including:
  • Asset utilization
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  • Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets.

B.S. in mechanical, electrical, or chemical engineering.

• 2+ years experience in manufacturing/processing.
• Computer proficiency that includes input of data and development of reports and presentations.
• Experience with SAP (or other ERP software programs), MS Office, and AutoCAD.

We offer a range of market‑competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short‑ and long‑term disability benefits, 401(k) + match and life insurance.

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