Reliability Engineer

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager the Reliability Engineer identifies and manages asset reliability risks that could adversely affect operation's ability to meet corporate and site objectives. This includes: lead continuous improvement, asset health and loss elimination initiatives, risk management and life cycle asset management.

The Reliability Engineer is an experienced Reliability Specialist with at least 5 years of experience in a reliability, operational excellence and/or continuous improvement role applying proven best practices in an industrial environment. A technical diploma is required, while an Engineering degree is preferred. The Reliability Engineer is familiar with using a CMM/EAM system and MS Office tools and with applying Standard Operating Procedures in his/her work.

The Reliability Engineer follows company policies, standards and guidelines as they apply to all activities.

The Reliability Engineer has good leadership, communication, analytical skills, works well in a team environment, is responsible and is open to change. The person is results oriented and quality driven.

The Reliability Engineer promotes and maintains a safe working environment through compliance with MLF’s Health and Safety Program. This includes Food Safety and Environmental compliance

Any MLF team member interested in being considered for this role are encouraged to apply online by December 01. Applications received beyond that date are not guaranteed consideration. Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

• Develop solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.

• Involved in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets.
• Review and resolve Production losses and abnormally high Maintenance cost assets.
• Manage risk to the achievement of MLF’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, food quality and production.
• Lead efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Define, design, develop, monitor and refine maintenance strategies based on asset performance.
• Provide technical assistance to review equipment rebuilds and Supplier performance.
• Responsible for ranking the major physical assets in terms of criticality and risk to the organization.
• Provide input in the creation of corrective action plans.
• Review MTTR and MTBF results to identify and lead maintenance program/department improvements.
• Review plant history and other technical files to identify/resolve opportunities for improvement.
• Validate inputs into condition-based monitoring routes, load levels, and seed dates.
• Monitor the potential maintenance impact and/or opportunity of the production plan.
• Conduct LCC analyses on new, problematic and aging assets.
• Work with stores to identify the best part/material solution for the application.
• Incorporate continuous improvement feedback into the planning strategy.
• Provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work.
• Use work history when identifying asset reliability shortfalls.
• Apply the Bad Actor Report process to track significant issues.
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.
• Develop and manage the site's asset management strategy.
• Track, report an develop action plans to attain the asset management strategy's goals and objectives.
• Utilize the site’s 3 Year Plan in setting reliability improvement priorities.
• Identify knowledge gaps and future skill requirements.
• Research external references for current best practices and use to influence maintenance and reliability strategy.
• Work with Engineering to integrate Cap Ex project changes into the PMs.
• Develop and maintain a formal PM/PdM program for all key asset.
• Review 5% of the PM/PdM programs every quarter.
• Provide technical support, guidance and validation for all new PM/PdM tasks.
• Ensure that appropriate documents are updated when modifications occur.
• Following a modification apply a formal MOC process, which includes a review of existing maintenance strategies.
• Asset…