Reliability Manager

Title - Reliability Manager

Location - South Carolina, CA

Shift - Onsite

Job Description

This position is responsible for identifying and managing asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. Position must guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, safety and process safety systems. Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. This broad primary role includes loss elimination, risk management, life cycle asset management, and capital project management.

What you will do:

These responsibilities include,

Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an asset maintenance plan that includes:

Value-added preventive maintenance tasks

Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems

Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility, the reliability engineer applies:

Statistical process control

Reliability modeling and prediction

Fault tree analysis

Six Sigma methodology

Data analysis techniques that can include:

Root cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)

Works with project and area engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. The reliability engineering manager is responsible for adhering to the life cycle asset management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.

Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.

Participates in the final check-out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.

Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems

Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.

Works with Production to perform analyses of assets including:

Asset utilization

Overall equipment effectiveness

Remaining useful life

Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets

Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.

Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the General Manager.

What you need to be successful:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of training and experience

8 or more years of relevant maintenance and/or reliability experience in fixed plant equipment

Experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment (forest products industry preferred)

Experience in project management

Managerial/Supervisory experience

Advanced computer skills including MS Office software

Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection (i.e. vibration analysis, oil monitoring, thermography) as well as the software associated with them

Strong mechanical and electrical knowledge and aptitude

Strong written and verbal communication skills

What will make you stand out:

Experience in relevant areas of CMMS

Knowledge of Mill processes and equipment.

Good oral and written communication skills and good team building skills.

Have a strong fundamental understanding of mechanical, hydraulic, and circulating systems operation, contamination control and maintenance functions.

Demonstrated initiative and strong work habits.

Proven ability to organize, plan and establish a routine of activities to ensure principal accountabilities are met.

Proactive, questioning, ‘get-it-done’ attitude

Basic understanding of maintenance activities and equipment.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Timber management: 8 years (Preferred)
• Reliability Management: 7 years (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Fairfax, SC 29827: Relocate with an employer provided relocation package (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $110,000 - $120,000