Reliability Engineering Manager

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

The Reliability Engineering Manager has overall responsibility for site and engineering activity, to include all safety, quality, continuous process improvement efforts. Responsible for leading and supervising a team of engineers as they develop, test, modify, and create solutions to technical problems and customer concerns.

• Direct and coordinate activities of CRE’s to ensure customer contract product and services are fulfilled.
• Perform personnel functions, such as selection, training, evaluation, coaching, and counseling
• Plan, prepare and deploy departmental budget and manage processes to forecast expenses, explain variances and mitigate negative variances.
• Review financial statements, activity reports, or other performance data to measure productivity or goal achievement and identify areas needing cost reduction or program improvement.
• Actively participate in the development and implementation of John Crane strategic initiatives and objectives.
• Drive engineering performance improvement through the use of appropriate KPI’s
• Actively promote Environmental, Health & Safety throughout the business, ensuring EHS is a goal for all employees and ensure all EHS requirements are fulfilled in accordance with defined responsibilities.
• Work with cross-functional teams including customer and supplier representatives to resolve product related issues and improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required, ME preferred.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years increasingly responsible professional experience in plant process systems and equipment operation or design knowledge is required.
• Supervisory experience with direct reports is preferred.
• Solid multi-project management skills and experience required
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal, strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Proven track record of driving change and achieving results is preferred.
• Experience working in a diverse environment and managing multiple sites is a plus.

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

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