Sr. Operations Reliability Engineer

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients. Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

We are looking for our next Packaging & Reliability Engineer, within our maintenance department. The role is a hybrid role. The Packaging Engineer will have a deep knowledge of packaging line equipment and systems and will drive continuous improvement efforts on packaging systems. The Reliability Engineer will have a good working knowledge of Plant safety, quality, maintenance, reliability, and work management best practices.

The individual must be able to analyze data across multiple systems to identify opportunities and drive improvements to safety, quality, and plant assets. This person must have the organizational capability to network with various resources and teams across multiple functions (EHS, quality, operations, maintenance, engineering, technology, external vendors, etc.) and be able to communicate well across all levels (operators, mechanics, peers, manufacturing and business leadership, etc.).

The Reliability Engineer will report to the Maintenance and Reliability Manager and shall serve as a backup for the Maintenance and Reliability Manager when needed.

This position is located in Newark, DE.

The current salary range for this role is estimated to be $120,365 - $162,900 in addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation. The specific compensation offered to a candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

• Develop, justify and drive implementation of packaging upgrade projects to meet customer and business needs.
• Maintain expected GMP standards for packaging unit operations working with business, quality, regulatory, operations and MT key stakeholders.
• Working with equipment suppliers, site operations and MT develop packaging technology documentation as a reference for technology and equipment use for upgrade projects.
• Assist with early Front-End Loading (FEL) on packaging Cap Ex projects to include business case & scope development. Support detailed design, lead commissioning & start-up activities, RTO as appropriate.
• Work with HPS packaging engineer on the analysis of the HPS packaging product customer offering to include pack type vs. customer need, packaging cost and overall spend and develop proposals to optimize package type offering to provide required package quality, product stability, standardized presentation and optimized cost.
• Support the business and site quality functions on any product/packaging stability trials, studies or improvement initiatives.
• Develop knowledge and expertise in packaging technology and systems becoming the Subject Matter Export (SME).
• Support site operations and quality in packaging related critical customer complaints.
• Drive OEE performance measurement of packaging lines to enable improved overall production line performance and facility capacity debottlenecking and reduced operational cost.

• Maintain and serve as subject matter expert on plantwide utilities (Air compressors, Boiler, Moving equipment, etc,)
• Assist with maintenance department goals to implement Company Core Principles and Food Safety Guidelines.
• Provide technical expertise to analyze data to quantify impacts to site, prioritize bad actors, complete FMEA+ analysis and report metrics.
• Lead or participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) or incident investigations.
• Proactively network with other Company Engineering technical disciplines (e.g., Consultants for Materials, Engineering Mechanics, Instruments & Process Controls, Electrical and Energy), plant and business personnel, and suppliers and contractors to improve reliability and maintain equipment.
• Develop engineering solutions for chronic and sporadic equipment reliability problems and collaborate with technical, operations, and maintenance to implement solutions.
• Participate in capital project reviews with focus on maintainability, verification that installation plan meets OEM recommendations or basic installation practices, equipment life cycle costs, and documentation requirements.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to sort through, verify relevance and accuracy, and file equipment documentation.
• Support maintenance personnel during equipment overhauls and outages.
• Develop and review maintenance procedures to ensure that maintenance and repairs are sustained.
• Analyze equipment failure data to identify patterns and trends.
• Conduct root cause analysis to determine the underlying cause of equipment problems/failures.
• Developing and implementing new maintenance…