Reliability Engineer
Carrollton, GA
$87,300 - $105,000
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.
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.
· 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 audits activity to sustain system integrity.
· Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant.