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Reliability/Maintenance Engineer
Job Information
Job Type Reliability Engineer Level of Seniority Experienced - Not Management
Job Reference 4485BR Union or Non-Union Both equally
Required Education Any What shift is this position First
Willing to Relocate Yes Location Wellston , OH
Additional Languages Specific product expertise required Maintenance / Equipment

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Job Details
Description
Improve system performance by increasing the reliability of all plant equipment including process, packaging, material handling, and utility systems.

Provide technical support for the evolution from reactive to proactive maintenance, which will lead to productivity improvement and a reduced maintenance cost/case.

Identify, implement, and communicate productivity improvements corporate wide.

Act as a technical consultant for new capital expenditures to ensure maintainability and reliability has been optimized to achieve the lowest life cycle cost (LCC) and highest equipment availability possible.

Condition Based Monitoring
1) Become familiar with technologies and implement (using contractors where necessary)
a) Vibration analysis, oil analysis, ultrasonic inspections, infrared, acoustic emissions, motor circuit analysis, and non-destructive testing
2) Support the program
3) Utilize CMMS system to schedule activities
4) Become familiar with and review data collection system information (CIM21, MQIS, DT Analyst)
5) Become familiar with non-traditional PdM tools (metal detectors, sensors, etc.)

Failure Analysis & Prevention Program
1) Become familiar with and participate in failure analysis programs such as FMEA, Why/Why Analysis, Cause Mapping, and RCA.
2) Failure Forensics: Develop a skills set and coordinate resources for analyzing failures.
3) Failure Prevention: Learn how operational, preventive, and other standards are in place and are executed.

Reliability Measures
1) Understand MTBF, MTTR, availability, and others and communicate them.
2) Promote and track reliability growth. Become familiar with the plant metrics and communicate them (including reliability, system performance, productivity, and others.)

Early Management
1) Encourage the use of the Manufacturing Requirements document including Reliability, Maintainability, LCC, and machine acceptance standards.
2) Encourage the use of component and machine installation standards


SUPPORT ACCOUNTABILITIES
Plant/Operations Continuous Improvement Programs
Become familiar with:
1) System performance and the gap analysis process
2) Plant programs such as TPM, Lean Manufacturing, RCM, and others
3) Preventive maintenance and how it is used.

Plant Maintenance Measures
1) Become familiar with maintenance metrics and how they are used to improve (Planned maintenance rate, schedule compliance, PM completion, reliability, etc.)

Maintenance Program Development
Become familiar with:
1) Maintenance short and long term goals and how they are set.
2) Required maintenance skills, assessments, and training resource identification.
3) Roles and relationships between maintenance, engineering, and operations and their priorities.
4) Maintenance culture and its strengths and opportunities.
5) CMMS system and begin to use it
6) PME program
7) RCM process

Additional duties as assigned.

Critical Requirements:
Bachelors degree in Engineering. At least two years of experience in maintenance, reliability.
Experience in manufacturing environment.
Recognized technical capability, equipment and component knowledge, and practical experience and technical capabilities in the following areas:

1) Materials: metals, plastics, elastomers, composites, coatings, etc.
2) Fabrication methods: welding, machining, surface treatment, etc.
3) Dimensional tolerances: reading prints, measuring, and specifying
4) Fastening and joining: methods and materials
5) Pneumatics, hydraulics, and mechanical power transmission
1) Teaching and training ability (of reliability practices relative to this level)
2) Communication: verbal and written
3) Problem solving skills (ability to identify and implement solutions)
4) Leadership
5) Interpersonal skills
6) Initiative

Compensation
Base Salary Competitive Bonus Potential Yes
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