Reliability Manager

Job Category:

Engineering Job Family:

Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

Job Description:

The regional reliability manager's main goal is to boost the reliability, availability, and performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities, ensuring smooth operations, increasing uptime, and boosting efficiency and profits in more than one plant within a region. They support maintenance and operations by proactively pinpointing potential failures or weaknesses and creating strategies to prevent or lessen these issues. The regional reliability engineer assures safety standards and regulatory compliance, including adherence to SQF (Safe Quality Food) requirements.

Responsibilities will include supporting locations outside of home plant.

This position will be located at our Logan, UT plant. This position will support our Logan, UT facility a majority of the time and Smithfield, UT when needed.
* Relocating candidates (50+ miles) are eligible for $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package

* What you’ll do:

Asset Lifecycle Management:
• Implement company wide strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets.
• Drive component standard adherence to drive reliability.
• Improve assets and facilities by finding ways to enhance reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Leadership & Development:
• Facilitates best practice sharing to drive company wide reliability.
• Provide training and support to regional partners on reliability best practices, and reliability metrics to raise awareness and drive company wide culture.
• Use measures to drive performance and evaluate progress.

Data Analysis and Continuous Improvement:
• Analyze data from equipment sensors and maintenance records to spot potential reliability issues to prioritize for improvement.
• Use advanced statistics and engineering mathematics for analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment and process reliability.
• Use reliability tools and methodologies (e.g., FMEA, RCA, RCM, PdM technologies, etc.).Failure, Root Cause Analysis, & Risk Assessment:
• Investigates the root causes of failures to understand why they happened and how they can be prevented in the future.
• Assess potential risks associated with equipment failures.
• Develop strategies to mitigate risks, such as implementing redundancy measures or upgrading critical equipment.

Asset Care Strategy:
• Improves proactive maintenance by driving precision assembly and lubrication excellence.
• Develop, implement, and improve predictive & preventive maintenance strategies to drive reliability.
• Implement tool strategies to ensure that equipment is properly maintained and serviced to prevent unplanned downtime and equipment failures.

Collaboration and Compliance:
• Collaborate with and works closely with cross-functional teams, including maintenance, operations, engineering, Environmental Health Safety (EHS), and quality assurance, to ensure alignment on reliability goals and initiatives.
• Implement and govern use of engineering standards.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you will need to succeed:
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering or related field. Masters degree a plus.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, Vibration Analysis, Ultrasonic, Metallurgy, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• 8+ years experience in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma
• Data Analytics, Vibration Monitoring, Tribology, Six Sigma, Lean,…