Reliability & Methods Manager

Overview

Titan America is currently seeking a Reliability (Methods) Manager to join our Roanoke Cement Plant team located in Troutville, Virginia. This position is responsible for ensuring smooth and efficient mechanical and electrical equipment operation and civil structures, reliability throughout the organization and proper implementation of the methods department activities and personnel, thus achieving optimum operational plant performance within agreed costs, targets, and time limits. This role requires strong leadership, organization, and coordination skills in a dynamic, fast-paced industrial environment.

Responsibilities

• Implementation of preventative/predictive maintenance programs using FMEA, RCFA and RCM to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Work with engineering to propose equipment and process modifications to improve equipment performance and reliability.
• Plan equipment maintenance and monitor on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Design inspections to monitor conditions and identify/prevent failures and take ownership of evaluation of findings as well as undertaking necessary corrective actions.
• Implementation and integration of general and specific safety procedures and instructions within all maintenance activities.
• Review and analyze critical spare parts inventory and adjust reordering levels accordingly.
• Ensure all critical maintenance tools & devices are kept and maintained in orderly fashion.
• Manage the plant’s lubrication program and arrange supervision of lubrication practices and associates.
• Assume ownership of the plant’s oil analysis, vibration analysis, and NDT inspection programs.
• Develop budgets, estimating labor and materials required to properly maintain and improve the preventative maintenance of the plant and operate within the budget.
• Identify opportunities to reduce all maintenance-related expenses primarily from reducing unscheduled breakdowns and equipment failures.
• Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes:
  • Value-added preventative maintenance tasks
  • Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destruction testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.
• Work with the production team to perform analyses of assets including asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life and other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Take ownership for methods department personnel training and development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field required.
• Minimum three to five years of experience in cement, lime or related heavy industrial/manufacturing environment.
• Experience in using and applying maintenance tools, including root cause failure analysis, vibration monitoring and oil analysis.
• Prior experience in a supervisory role preferred.
• Experience with project management a plus.
• Possess strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to facilitate positive and professional working relationships with managers, team members and external customers.
• Ability to analyze complex issues, establish priorities, develop procedures and effectively solve problems.
• Strong planning, analytical, time-management and decision-making skills.
• Basic understanding of Expert/Fuzzy/ECS system fundamentals.
• Proficiency in MS Office programs required (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)