Reliability Engineer

• Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD, STD insurance premiums 100% paid by company and starts from day one for employee and dependents!!!
• 401k and company match program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan payback assistance
• Many more additional benefits!

Position Summary

In this position you will provide engineering support to address plant issues that are impacting production over a short period of time and provide technical expertise which may be equipment based or repair technique based that impacts the availability and maintainability of the facility.
 

Essential Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Serves as a subject matter expert in equipment failures and repair techniques during root cause investigations.
• Develops maintenance operating discipline.
• Provides technical expertise to plant personnel on troubleshooting failures, repairs, and evaluating whether equipment is designed to meet its intended or existing service conditions.
• Ensures that work requests include engineering input on repair details and if necessary provides onsite/offsite technical support for deviations from this data, for equipment that is critical for the process.
• Ensures repairs, repair techniques and equipment specific training are documented and made available.
• Supports the preventive maintenance coordinator, as required, in reviewing spare parts list for existing equipment.
• Enters quality, service, and product performance information into the reporting system.
• Participates in developing the maintenance budget to support the maintenance strategy.
• Provides engineering input for work packages to ensure standards are followed, as required. Provides input on development of work orders during development of turnaround work particularly on critical equipment requiring engineering review or input.
• Provides equipment reliability and performance data to the technical resource networks for input into equipment purchasing requirements, evaluation of equipment performance, vendor performance, and modifications to MET.
• Completes EH&S orientation and all required training. Exhibits safe work behaviors and works safely without injury or insult to the environment. Fulfills all requirements of the production area and/or maintenance area EH&S.
• Supports Industrial Hygiene and other EH&S work process activities. Incorporates safety considerations in planning and maintenance implementation. Understands impact of process chemistry with respect to materials of construction or lubrication.
• Uses maintenance spending, reliability, and maintenance metrics for assigned area. Understands objectives of the Facility Maintenance Strategy for assigned areas and relevant history of equipment failures.
• Analyzes impact of equipment failures on maintenance spending to identify improvement opportunities. Initiates reliability related MOCs and effectively implement change in own area of responsibility in coordination with appropriate leadership. Understands principles of Long-Term Cost of Ownership. Analyzes and troubleshoots maintenance spending in assigned area with coaching.
   

Supervisory Responsibilities:

No direct supervisory responsibility but provides functional or technical guidance to other staff within a work group or unit.  May be required to provide some advice on policies and procedures to staff.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Ability to plan & organize work.
• Capable of solving problems of a difficult nature, within field of specialization.

Education and Experience

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering or Material Science / Metallurgical Engineering etc.) OR relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking.
• 3 or more years maintenance, engineering, manufacturing, reliability or related experience required.

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.