Reliability Engineer II
USA, Carrollton GA
$87,300 - $131,000
Job Description
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.
Major Responsibilities / Key Deliverables
· 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.
· Interacts with reliability engineers at other plants to share findings from failure analyses along with solutions to problems identified.
· Monitors equipment MTTR and MTBF performance to identify reliability improvement opportunities.
· Examines defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity, and utilizes this information for PM optimization.
· Participates in new and modified equipment design and installations.
· Assists in spare part reviews to ensure adequate stocking levels as determined by consumption due to normal wear and failure frequency.
· Identifies risks of obsolescence and proposes mitigation strategies.
· Introduces tools and techniques in performing preventive and predictive maintenance activity, and prescribes frequency of activity through CMMS maintenance plans.
· Provides training and support of precision maintenance processes such as alignment and balancing.
· Develops a world class lubrication program and monitors performance and execution.
· Supports autonomous activities and provides skills training to operations team members.
· Drives proactivity performance through supervision of planners and participation in scheduling activities with planners and coordinators.
· Ensures CMMS users have been trained in system utilization and audit activity to sustain system integrity.
· Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
· Individuals must be a degreed engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment with a 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 have experience with common condition-based, predictive technologies such as vibration, thermal, ultrasonic, oil, and circuit analyses.