Reliability Manager

Role Summary

The Reliability Manager role focuses on championing the Total Reliability Management Process by facilitating the strategic development and implementation of maintenance strategies, standards, and processes to continuously improve equipment reliability, and providing tactical support for the facility using reliability methodologies to troubleshoot and determine root causes of failure to eliminate unexpected failures. This position requires effective communication, high energy, and motivation, and is a high visibility, growing role within the organization with the expectation to guide the implementation of the Total Reliability Management Process in the Perrigo Wisconsin facility.

• Guide the development of the asset care strategy and plan for the entire site; evaluate and develop solutions to drive uptime and stability of the plant site
• Develop asset care competencies within the Maintenance and Engineering team
• Provide specialist guidance and advice on asset care management
• Ensure reliability, availability, and maintainability techniques are incorporated into capital projects
• Address problems with asset care program and lead the implementation of corrective actions
• Manage required asset care systems and ensure functional and data integrity of information
• Support the overall condition monitoring activities, ensuring relevant competencies are developed; set up outsourced activities, evaluate and introduce monitoring techniques, conduct training partnering with training department and OEM/suppliers
• Interpret data collected from condition monitoring, provide and implement recommendations working with key stakeholders
• Assist with ongoing continuous improvement
• Support Asset Reliability Work Processes – e.g., FMEA, RCA, and Equipment Criticality Assessment
• Provide technical support and expertise to troubleshoot, identify root causes, and improve reliability
• Supervise the Planning and Scheduling group along with a Reliability Engineer (Mechanical)

• Required:
  
  5+ years of experience in maintenance or reliability engineering
• Required:
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technology or related
• Required:
  
  Strong communication, leadership, and facilitation skills
• Required:
  
  Demonstrated ability to effectively work with all levels in the organization
• Required:
  
  Knowledge of equipment maintenance troubleshooting and best practices
• Required:
  
  Knowledgeable in predictive maintenance tools such as Vibration, Ultrasound, Thermography
• Preferred: ISO category 1 vibration
• Preferred:
  Experience with a maintenance management system (SAP preferred)

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technology or related

• Maintenance strategy development
• Asset care management
• Condition monitoring and data interpretation
• FMEA, RCA, Equipment Criticality Assessment
• Leadership and cross-functional collaboration