Reliability Technologist

You know our brands, The Laughing Cow, Babybel, Boursin, Kaukauna, Merkts and Price's, which elicit smiles across America. They are daring, responsible and deliver dairy goodness. As you imagine, this mindset is contagious! Bel Brands USA is part of an international family company, which has led an ambitious growth strategy for 150 years and is today the world's third largest branded cheese company.

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Bel Brands USA has been named Chicago's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" for 10 years in a row. The company is headquartered in Chicago and operates three manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI, Leitchfield, KY, and Brookings, SD.

Job Summary:

The Reliability Technologist is responsible for improving operational performance (OEE) thru improved technical performance of the plant equipment. This role has specific responsibilities related to Preventative Maintenance programs and maintenance training programs.

Job Responsibilities & Tasks:

* Partner with other Technical Services team members and Maintenance personnel to prescribe, plan and ensure effectiveness of preventive and predictive maintenance processes for the facility. Recommend changes as appropriate.

* Create and updates the maintenance plans (equipment, FMEA , spare parts, technical documentation)

* Establish and own the adjustment sequences of equipment.

* Own the red point process

* Help to define the indicators of maintenance communication board

* Suggest solutions for the elimination of obsolete equipment

* Collaborate with the Parts Room Specialist, Maintenance Supervisors, and Technical Services team members to standardize and optimize the parts room inventory levels while meeting MTBF and cost requirements.

* Partner with Maintenance Supervisors in maintaining effective organization of the maintenance workshop, including organization, 5S adherence, etc.

* Provide technical expertise to the plant maintenance team in troubleshooting activities.

* Assume ownership for development and execution of one or more reliability programs, which may include metrology management, red point management or training programs.

* Develop, maintain and implement maintenance training programs.

* Facilitate maintenance training and technician qualification/validation in partnership with Maintenance leadership.

* Collaborate with Reliability Engineers to maintain and improve the CMMS software system (CORIM), including maintenance task management practices, technical profile management, etc.

* Design or edit the equipment tree as needed to support proper information input/output

* Train others how to use the CMMS and the desktop tools for monitoring malfunctions

* Create, implement, and audit maintenance indicators and inform of any deviation

* Participate in the development of maintenance budget (for major planned maintenance)

* Suggest and implement the structure changes of CMMS to be more efficient

* Collaborate in the design of engineering proposals to ensure maintainability of equipment. Manage and lead small engineering projects as required.

* Participate in the analysis and the development of the project.

* Write the functional FMEA and validate it.

* In partnership with suppliers, evaluate and define technical solutions and validate their feasibility.

* Consults and participates in the selection of suppliers.

* Follow the technical side qualifications as needed and complete new PM tasks and PM plans.

* Organize the appropriate technical files for projects as they are completed

* Ensure the transfer to production and maintenance (qualification, documentation, and follow-through)

* Ensure the technical reliability of FFS and Packaging Equipments and help to improve their level of OEE and quality performance mainly through facilitating the meetings and follow-ups of the OEE Group.

* Participate actively in OEE groups for each workshop.

* Help to prioritize actions from the daily results in the maintenance work order meeting.

* Participate in any progress plans with the suppliers.

* Take into account the requirements of industrial and food safety in the interventions, procedures, of preventive and predictive maintenance ranges.

* Mentor and provide support/ training/ guidance to others within the plant in areas related to troubleshooting, repairs, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, industrial safety and food safety.

* Make basic changes to automated controls programming as necessary. Collaborate with Reliability Engineers or subject matter experts on more complex programming needs.

* All other duties as assigned

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

Plant OEE, Maintenance Breakdowns, PM Efficiency

Position Requirements :

EDUCATION

* Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or an Associate's Degree in a field related to industrial maintenance preferred, or 10 years of experience in leu…