Reliability Engineer

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, but are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties may be assigned.

• Maintains compliance with appropriate federal, state and local safety and/or environmental regulations. Reports and notifies plant personnel of any deviations per established standards; maintains appropriate records and reports required by regulations.
• Champions and leads in the Sun Coke Visible Safety Program including Safety Improvement Plans, 5S, Field Safety Hazard Identification, and Safety Observations.
• Participates in safety incident investigations as required, including reporting incidents to appropriate personnel, completing required documentation, recommending and implementing corrective actions, and communicating findings as appropriate.
• Monitors, reviews, prepares and analyzes reports and data to identify trends, root cause analysis (RCA), or non‑compliance; recommending and implementing corrective actions accordingly.
• Maintains responsibility for predictive technologies including lubrication, vibration, motor circuit analysis, ultrasound and other technologies; instructing plant personnel and other resources on their proper use.
• Identifies best practices and drives implementation of improvement projects across the plant sites to promote reliability and consistency of manufacturing operations.
• Provides an essential interface between operations, maintenance, and engineering to ensure reliability principles are factored into project design and purchasing decisions.
• Works with plant personnel to leverage technical expertise by assisting in development of an approach to component repairs when usual repair methods are not readily available.
• Develops and supports reliability tracking methods such as asset utilization, mean time between failures and mean time between repairs.
• Performs troubleshooting activities with hydraulic systems, conveyors, etc., recommends a course of action and works with appropriate resources to implement plan.
• Develops and verifies specifications for equipment design, installation and maintenance.
• Utilizes facility CMMS and process monitoring systems to track equipment performance, conditions, and total cost of ownership.
• Performs field audits of vendors and suppliers to validate quality to specifications.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and extreme heat. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and high, precarious places. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate with noise level in some areas high.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to…