What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability Engineer position at Ash Grove Cement Company?
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Summary:
The Reliability Engineer drives efforts to ensure desired reliability and maintainability of equipment,
processes, and safety systems. This position promotes and supports the implementation of reliability initiatives in the Maintenance Excellence Process (MEP) context. The position identifies and manages risks that could adversely affect plant reliability and operations. The Reliability Engineer manages life cycle assets and risk management for critical plant equipment.
What you’ll be contributing:
- Manages, monitors and optimizes reliability aspects of the Maintenance Excellence Process (MEP).
- Develops a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
- Reviews Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to measure and analyze plant reliability processes
- Provides technical support to production, maintenance, and technicians
- Prepares CAPEX documents for reliability program-related expenditures
- Prepares cost avoidance reports for PDM findings
- Performs Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) data analysis
- Analyzes online condition monitoring data and initiates workflow process based on risk analysis
- Provides direct oversight of projects and contract labor during plant annual maintenance periods
- Develops PM and PDM tasks for newly installed equipment
- Conducts safety meetings and work area inspections on a regular basis to ensure compliance with safety and environmental requirements.
- Coordinates and schedules predictive maintenance activities and tasks
- Solicits feedback and ideas from PdM technicians to improve efficiencies and effectiveness of predictive maintenance activities and tasks
- Provides guidance, coaching, motivation, training, and development to direct reports
- Maintains records of timesheets, attendance, and Paid Time Off (PTO) and ensures compliance with company policies of each
To succeed in this position, you will need:
- Ability to analyze facts and to exercise sound judgment in arriving at a conclusion
- Minimum 4 Year / Bachelors Degree in Electrical, mechanical engineering, or related technical field
- Minimum 3 years in related process industry with significant experience in the support of maintenance work processes, inventory, failure analysis, reliability theory, continuous improvement methods, and a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Societies for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) and Life Cycle Engineering.
- Proficient in English written, verbal communication and listening skills
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to perform, organize and prioritize work independently
- Ability to interpret complex statistical data, and methods required to analyze the effectiveness and use of KPIs and PDM information.
- Knowledge of reliability practices and procedures as they relate to heavy industrial machinery and/or cement manufacturing.
- Knowledge of reliability principles including failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), vibration analysis, lubrication and tribology, thermography, etc.
- Knowledge of workflow management and the application of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) in the improvement of equipment and facility reliability.
- Ability to work under general supervision with specified policies, objectives, and guidelines.
What’s next for you?
We provide stability and advancement opportunities across North America. Use our tuition reimbursement program to help you meet your career goals.
The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. The physical demands, working environment, and other conditions of employment listed in this document are representative of but are not intended to provide an exhaustive list of the requirements for positions in this classification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
