Mechanical Engineer

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This MIQA Reliability Engineer position is located within Qnity Electronics Company’s Kalrez® Manufacturing sites in Newark, Delaware. These sites produce high‑performance Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer seals in a discrete part manufacturing environment. The manufacturing process includes many sequential, yet independent operations (compounding, extrusion, molding, curing, finishing and inspection) and equipment sets that require robust maintenance plans and a reliability program for optimized asset care and performance.

This role will be responsible for overall plant reliability and the Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance program.

• Facilitate development of the business / facility maintenance strategy, and solve reliability and availability losses through application of reliability methodologies and process safety management tools to enable the plant to meet its business plan and strategy and therefore the customer’s need.
• Lead the reliability effort to improve equipment and process reliability in the areas for which he/she is assigned.
• Regularly analyze maintenance and production data to identify reliability problems, develop and drive improvement projects to reduce repeat failures. Analyze asset utilization and cost data to develop and prioritize a list of reliability opportunities. Develop and execute improvement projects and strategies.
• Investigate failure of critical equipment, participate in and lead root‑cause investigations, conduct failure modes and effects analysis as needed to support, and establish preventive maintenance activities.
• Conduct and execute equipment criticality analysis as input to equipment strategies. Identify and procure spare parts for critical equipment. Regularly investigate “stock‑outs” on emergency maintenance and recommend and source spare parts to avoid future stock‑outs.
• Identify and correct operations practices that result in equipment damage or failure. Develop and implement operating discipline that will improve reliability.
• Evaluate effectiveness of the preventative maintenance program by analyzing the impact of failures and preventative maintenance.
• Evaluate/validate the impact of corrective actions that impact availability/reliability and leverage solutions across a business or site if appropriate.
• Participate in Front End Loading (FEL) and other activities as appropriate. Process simplification, value engineering, maintenance strategy, reliability modeling, etc.
• Use reliability engineering principles and tools (Weibull, root‑cause investigation, FMEA) to increase asset capability (AC) and asset mechanical reliability (AMR).
• Research and implement new technologies that will help the company to better compete in the global marketplace.

• Leads the Reliability Effort to improve equipment and process reliability in the areas for which he/she is assigned.
• Regularly analyzes Maintenance and production data to identify reliability problems, develops and drives improvement projects to reduce repeat failures. Analyzes asset utilization and cost data to develop and prioritize a list of reliability opportunities. Develops and executes improvement projects and strategies.
• Investigates failure of critical equipment. Participates in and leads root Cause investigations. Conducts Failure modes and effects analysis as needed to support, and establish preventive maintenance activities.
• Conducts and executes Equipment Criticality Analysis as input to equipment strategies. Identifies and procures spare parts for critical equipment. Regularly investigates “stock‑outs” on emergency maintenance and recommends and sources spare parts to avoid future stock‑outs.
• Identifies and corrects operations practices that result in equipment damage or failure. Develops and implements operating discipline that will improve reliability.
• Evaluates effectiveness of the Preventative Maintenance program by analyzing the impact of failures and Preventative Maintenance.
• Evaluates/validates the impact of corrective actions that impact availability/pre‑availability and leverages solutions…