Processing Membrane Subject Matter Expert

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

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With nearly $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife's portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes : fairlife ultra-filtered milk ; Core Power High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife nutrition plan , a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

Job purpose : The Subject Matter Expert (SME) is a crucial role within the Engineering Department that needs to perform at a high level with a very critical eye with a high statistical approach. The SME will provide technical solutions and expertise to Operations, Maintenance, building, plant infrastructure and utilities. The SME manages and oversees the site maintenance and assists the team responsible for operational reliability and top loss improvements. This individual will plan, direct, and coordinate team activities including all projects with necessary vendors and in-house resources. They are responsible for ensuring and improving the performance, productivity, and efficiencies for the plant through provision of effective methods, controls, and strategies.

Responsibilities :

• Can explain all membrane (UF, UFDF, NF, RO) functions and flow using the HMI or on the floor with the equipment
• High technical and with mechanical aptitudes
• Open schedule and willing to take calls and assist at all hours including night shift.
• Driven to learn and improve operations and efficiencies
• Excellent and proven problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with other individuals and contribute to team success
• An understanding or desire to learn Mechatronics
• Ability to troubleshoot 90% of technical issues, create new recipes, develop SOPs, training material, schedules training, PM guidelines, and PM schedule
• Requires a strong mechanical background and an excellent understanding of process flows.
• Proven ability to work with OEM specific machinery that the Goodyear Facility has.
• LOTO and risk assessments.
• Identify and communicate material defects
• Follow quality issues to completion
• Own and update all equipment documentation and procedures (CL, CILs, recipes)
• Track the life cycle of equipment specific parts and track inventory and order parts as needed
• Navigate and adjust HMI settings as needed
• Communicate cross-functionally with operators, leadership, engineering, CI, vendors and Krones
• Disassemble, repair, and reassemble equipment components
• Prioritize, schedule, and communicate any projects and maintenance of equipment to leadership and affected departments
• Leads rebuilds and maintenance initiatives
• Create and modify product recipes as needed.
• Supports equipment specific trials
• Gather, analyze, and communicate equipment specific data
• Serve as a top resource and technical expert for the plant in all disciplines of maintenance, equipment processes and production.
• Lead technical BDA and RCA programs.
• Failure analysis to recommend operational, maintenance, and process changes to maximize equipment.
• Ability to reverse engineer OEM parts and assemblies to improve machine and assembly performance.
• Coordinate, help, plan, and monitor the work of the maintenance and production departments. Manage reliability KPIs and department goals incorporating analytical tools to improve reliability, monitor performance, discover root cause, MTBF, and other strategies to implement improvements to eradicate variances. Provide technical support where necessary.
• Driving facility improvements through proper SOPs and ensuring that all personnel within the department have been trained on the SOPs.
• Implement moderately complex reliability excellence activities and identify and prioritize reliability engineering value creation opportunities.

Skills / qualifications required :

Safety :

The goal for the whole plant is to have less than 2.0 TIR / LTIR. However, we will not be able to achieve that without the building block of safety. It relies upon our team to be on the "tip of the spear" to be able to pull this off through Behavioral Based Safety programs (BBS - coming soon), risk predictions and permit to work. To that end we will need to do our part to ensure that the team is leading the way in transforming the safety culture that we currently have in the facility.

Your role with safety comes down to :

5'ish Big Rocks :

To accomplish the goals for the facility, the SME role has a large portion within the goals. As the SME the role is critical to the overall success for the team and ensuring that we have documented SOPs and helping the team to be well versed within the specific areas.

To accomplish this, we will need to focus on these 5'ish rocks :

The SME for the Utilities areas are the leader that will take the charge when we are developing plans for the specific areas. The SME has complete ownership of the area assigned and will own and drive the downtime out of the specific area.

Goal : The goal for the SME to have complete ownership of the specific area that they are assigned and will understand and execute the following :

WOs as assigned.

Actions taken or guided addressing the top loss for the specific areas assigned.

Mean Time Before Failure is a great measure that we can utilize to gauge our reliability of our machines. We recognize that there is a lot that goes into the MTBF and that often times we can skew the MTBF if there is bad material. We will take bad material into account when looking at the MTBF but overall for the SME this is the most critical metric that we should be focusing on.

We will need to establish baseline metrics and then establish stretch goals for the team to achieve.

GOAL : We will need to establish this goal for the packaging and processing equipment. We will need to be able to extract this data and be able to see if there is reliable established data and then set those goals. We will take our historical data and then review what a good MTBF would be.

MEASURES : Once the goal is fully established we can then set the measures.

The annual / bi-annual overhauls are a crucial part within being successful and leads back to our standards of we will house pristinely maintained equipment.

Preparation of the overhaul

Which includes looking at the reliability data to see if something can be done during the overhaul or is going to be done during the overhaul to be able to eliminate or greatly reduce the downtime.

Working with the tech to develop the plan.

To ensure we are growing as a team we need to ensure that we are training the team to the next level. This is done through regular gap analysis within the team and leveraging the Maintenance Trainer to be able to help fill those gaps.

Goal : Work with the Maintenance Trainer to identify the gaps within our team and create a plan for the trainer to be able to assist you in executing against.

The 90-day plan allows for the team to have actionable tasks that will help eliminate the top losses that are preventing the lines from performing.

The role of the SME within the 90-day plan is to help eliminate the DT or actions that fortify the processes that are in place to ensure reliable equipment.

Goal : Be an active participant within the GY meeting routines that will allow for actions to be taken and / or process developed and / or strengthened.

Standards and Expectations

We will hold our team accountable to the standards and expectations that we have laid out for the team. There is no backing down from the standards. Additionally, we need to guide the team to be a "player driven" leadership and not a "coach driven leadership".

Standards & Expectations :

SME "Day in the Life"

The SME should be focused on proactive measures allowing reactive measures to be driven by the rest of the team.

Prior to DDS

SME "Day in the Life - Cont."

Additional weekly duties

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email careers@fairlife.com.

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