Reliability Engineer

Position Details

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing technical program leadership to maximize up-time and the operating efficiency of equipment and facility assets. The incumbent will minimize costs and contribute to the overall profitability and performance of the business. Establish guidelines and specifications for properly implementing Preventive Maintenance activities. These guidelines and specifications identify equipment / instrument specific PM criteria (i.e. : Task, Frequency, Materials, Skill, Calibration parameters, etc.), Administers and oversees the PM / Calibration Program. Provides technical assistance and expertise to maintenance and operations personnel to ensure compliance to PM program requirements. Develops and implements equipment reliability plans that reduce the number of failures and minimizes the effects of failures that do occur. Develops procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects of existing and new equipment. Generates change control documentation as required by maintenance or reliability activities (i.e. Repairs, PM failures, Bad Actor reporting, FMEA, Projects, etc.)

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies chronic equipment (classification based) deficiencies through analysis and reporting.
• Performs reliability analysis to identify root cause of ongoing issue; develops, changes, and initiates maintenance activities such as PM, CBM, lubrication, calibration, training, and spare parts or identifies design modification projects to improve performance and equipment availability.
• Updates the criticality ranking of the assets under his / her care, using results from reporting and analysis, PM / Calibration activities, and other sources.
• Provides reliability maintenance input to project engineering design and equipment selection.
• Provides input to capital project design with respect to equipment selection and specifications that create project approaches which minimize life cycle costs.
• Provides input and oversight to equipment standards.
• Provides technical assistance to plant personnel to remedy breakdowns, improve safety or operator efficiency.

Key Competencies

Interacting with People at Different LevelsCollaborativeManaging RiskCommunicating EffectivelyManaging TimeCoordinating Project ActivitiesPerforming Physical or Mechanical TasksCreating and Maintaining NetworksPrioritizing and Organizing WorkCritical ThinkingProblem SolvingDemonstrating InitiativeSupporting ChangeDetailed OrientedSupporting Organizational GoalsDisplaying Technical ExpertiseThinking BroadlyDriving Projects to CompletionTesting and TroubleshootingEvaluating and Implementing IdeasUsing Computers and TechnologyInitiative and ResponsibilityWorking Safely

Skills

Able to use various hand tools.Ability to analyze data or processes, report findings and make recommendations.Ability to grasp priorities and develop systems, processes and policies in a cost effective manner.Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment.Extremely high level of attention to detail and high standard of quality.Able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules and procedure manuals.Able to satisfactorily complete all safety related training required to execute job functions.

Education & Experience

Physical Requirements

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.