What are the responsibilities and job description for the Facility Maintenance Reliability Engineer position at Kerry?
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.
A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
Our Team in Harrisonburg, VA
Our Harrisonburg location is part of our Taste division and creates a variety of stock broth, soups, and bases. We work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, where we work hard but also enjoy taking part in the community thanks to Kerry's employee engagement program.
The Role
We are looking for a skilled Reliability Engineer to join our team in Harrisonburg, VA. As a Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for optimizing maintenance, making it more predictable and manageable. You will continue to improve and guarantee the maintenance of production installations and process equipment together with your colleagues.
Main Responsibilities:
- Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect facility manufacturing processes.
- Complete criticality analysis (FMEA) of plant assets, to ensure correct PM and spare part holding.
- Develop maintenance tech capability (knowledge transfer through training).
- Work with regional reliability engineers/asset management lifecycle team to understand leading maintenance practices to be implemented at the plant.
- Drive embedding predictive maintenance practices within the site maintenance agenda.
- Translate maintenance concepts into maintenance tasks and work assignments.
- Monitor performance indicators, benchmarkings, procedures, and work instructions.
- Collect and organize relevant and reliable production and maintenance data. Upload this data in ERP (SAP PM) system.
- Analyze data, identify deviations, problems, and improvement possibilities.
- Prevent risks through preventive measures and anticipate unforeseen measures.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Bachelor's Degree (B.S) in Engineering.
- ~5 plus years of progressive experience in reliability engineering.
- ~ Food industry experience preferred but open to other industries within a manufacturing setting.
- ~ Experience in continuous improvement working with lean tools and methodologies (six sigma).
- ~ Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) is a nice to have.
- ~ SAP and Microsoft Office knowledge.
- ~ Ability to use the principles of calculus and trigonometry for analysis, design, and troubleshooting.
- ~ Ability to review and interpret equipment manuals, P&IDs, and electrical drawings.
What We Offer
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase, and retirement contribution. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
