Reliability Engineer

Position: Reliability Engineer
Company Overview: Northwest Talent Solutions LLC is a leading recruitment firm working with an outstanding US-based client. The Northwest Talent Solutions team is a group of experienced professionals dedicated to delivering top talent to our list of esteemed clients.
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated Reliability Engineer to join our client's team. The ideal candidate will have 4 years' experience with Reliability Engineering, 4 years' experience with any type of predictive maintenance technology, 4 years' experience in planning & scheduling maintenance work, and 4 years' experience examining defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity.
JOB PURPOSE:
The Reliability Engineer champions the implementation of reliability best practices. This role will also evaluate new best-known methods and technologies to continuously improve equipment reliability.
Key aspects of this position include:
-Working with various plant teams and areas to identify, evaluate, and implement reliability improvement opportunities through changes to operating and maintenance procedures, and equipment upgrades.
-Analyzing equipment history to identify reliability improvement opportunities.
-Deploying root cause analysis methods and tools on problems or failures that have resulted in consequential impacts related to machine downtime and / or maintenance expense.
-Participating in new equipment selection and deployment processes to ensure reliability and maintainability principles are included in the design and implementation activities.
-Supporting the Autonomous Maintenance process by contributing to the design and selection of operator inspections and tasks to sustain equipment condition and performance.
Promoting the following reliability strategies:
-Planned corrective maintenance is more effective than reactive maintenance.
-Time based preventive maintenance is more effective than plan corrective maintenance.
-Condition based (predictive) maintenance is more effective than time based preventive maintenance.
-Prevention of maintenance is the best comprehensive maintenance strategy.
-Participating in audits to measure and validate progression and performance in the reliability journey.
-Utilizing reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles to optimize the equipment maintenance strategy.
-Serving as a subject matter expert of the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and assist in end user training efforts to ensure master and transactional data integrity and accuracy.
1. MAJOR DUTIES:
Major Responsibilities / Key Deliverables % of Time
-Serves as the facility RCA process champion and participates in failure analyses to identify corrective actions to eliminate failure modes or reduce the consequence of failure. 5
-Interacts with reliability engineers at other plants to share findings from failure analyses along with solutions to problems identified. <5
-Monitors equipment MTTR and MTBF performance to identify reliability improvement opportunities. 5
-Examines defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity and utilizes this information for PM optimization. 10
-Participates in new and modified equipment design and installations. <5
-Assists in spare part reviews to ensure adequate stocking levels as determined by consumption due to normal wear and failure frequency. 5
-Identifies risks of obsolescence and proposes mitigation strategies. <5
-Introduces tools and techniques in performing preventive and predictive maintenance activity and prescribes frequency of activity through CMMS maintenance plans. 5
-Provides training and support of precision maintenance processes such as alignment and balancing. <5
-Develops a world class lubrication program and monitors performance and execution. 5
-Supports autonomous activities and provides skills training to operations team members. 5
-Drives proactivity performance through supervision of planners and participation in scheduling activities with planners and coordinators. 10
-Ensures CMMS users have been trained in system utilization, and audits activity to sustain system integrity. <5
-Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant. <5
2. KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE:
-Individual must be a degreed engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment with focus on reliability and maintainability.
-The Reliability Engineer must possess a thorough knowledge of methodologies including Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
-Must be able to train others on reliability activities while also capable of facilitating analyses that utilize reliability methodologies.
-The Reliability Engineer must also be familiar with common condition based, predictive technologies such as vibration, thermal, ultrasonic, oil and circuit analyses.
3. LEADERSHIP AND/OR TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES REQURIED:
Functional/Technical Skills
Problem Solving
Decision Quality
Total Work Systems
Drive for Results
Motivating Others
Building Effective Teams
4. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Performance Measures and Indicators utilized to measure the Engineers effectiveness:
Equipment Reliability Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
Equipment Maintainability Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
RCA investigations and corrective actions completed
Cost avoidance through effective PM / PdM inspections
PM Compliance and Yield
If you are a highly motivated and skilled Reliability Engineer looking for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic team and take your career to the next level.
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