Reliability Engineer

Owens Corning•Fort Smith, AR

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Reliability Engineer (RE) applies engineering practices to eliminate repetitive equipment and process failures. This role identifies and manages asset reliability risks that could impact plant or business operations. The RE is involved in the early design and installation stages of capital projects for new or modified assets, and develops analytical methods to determine equipment and process reliability. The RE is an active member of Total Productive Maintenance’s PM Pillar. This role involves acquiring and analyzing process and equipment data, preparing reports, and making recommendations for improvements. The level of reliability considered will include criticality ranking, economic limitations for equipment downtime, repair/replacement costs, and material/equipment availability. The Reliability Engineer will develop and ensure the execution of plans to reduce production losses and high maintenance cost assets, driving improved availability. The RE will manage a salary Maintenance Planner and hourly predictive maintenance technicians, including scheduling, performance reviews, training, development, and planned work.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science Engineering degree (Electrical, Mechanical preferred) or related field of study and 1-3 years experience in manufacturing environment.
Equivalent experience in lieu of degree should be 7-10 years with Industrial Maintenance.
Exposure and training in Reliability practices and processes, including the following, are desirable: Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Equipment Criticality Ranking (ECR), Failure Modes, effects and analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Achieve CMRP Certification within 24 months
Achieve Vibration level II in 36 months
Achieve MLT I within 24 months
High working knowledge of common CMMS systems, SAP preferred
Solid foundation of operating in Microsoft Excel- Intermediate level
Tribology (lubrication analysis) condition-based monitoring
Ability to safeguard self with proper PPE for the specific task
Hand/Eye Coordination– continuously
Walk, Sit, Stand for duration of shift with regular breaks
Lift/carry/move up to 25 lbs. independently and heavier weights with assistance.
Climb stairs, steps, and ladders
Able to Operate Computers & Computerized equipment for quality, safety and compliance testing and training.
Communicate with co-workers face to face, by telephone, and electronic communications.
Possess manual dexterity necessary to operate equipment, operate a computer and other standard office equipment.
Vision adequate to manipulate equipment controls, complete paperwork, utilize computers, and have depth perception.

Nice To Haves

Onsite Manufacturing experience strongly preferred
Working experience and application of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
Project Management
Excellent at listening, following up on commitments, and building strong teams
Strong process, engineering, and technical abilities
Business and financial acumen
Ability to influence without authority
Ability to manage multiple priorities or projects at one time

Responsibilities

Live the safety stand, adhere to the safety responsibilities
Lead execution of monthly team safety requirements
Educate team members on safe operations
Effectively communicate Owens Corning’s stand on safety throughout the Operations Department
Perform reporting and investigation of all safety incidents, driving to root cause and permanent resolution
Drives the elimination of unplanned equipment downtime
Gathers and examines basic reliability data from data bases, field tests, CMMS systems and other data sources, and correlates the data using well defined engineering techniques and procedures.
Assist/Learn and eventually facilitate Root Cause analysis/Root Cause Failure Analysis
Determine “Bad Actors” and Prioritize findings to focus on the largest or most critical opportunities.
Confer with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Maintenance Leaders, and other Reliability Engineers to develop a plan in partnership with Operations and Maintenance, and effectively and economically improve equipment and process designs.
Improves asset total life cycle cost across the enterprise.
Partners with Capital Delivery to ensure the EM focus on reliability and maintainability of new and modified equipment installations.
Confer with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Maintenance leaders, and other Reliability Engineers to develop a plan in partnership with Operations and Maintenance, to effectively and economically improve equipment and process designs.
Teaching and training of PM Pillar and reliability concepts/tools/methodologies
Defines, develops, monitors and refines asset maintenance strategies.
Develop/Apply Master Equipment list, Equipment Criticality, BOMs, etc
Conducts FMEA analysis on all critical assets.
Partners with plant PM Pillar/maintenance teams to define, develop and refine the Preventative/Predictive Maintenance program
Application of Storeroom/MRO best practices
Accountable for upkeep of all predictive maintenance databases
Accountable for predictive maintenance reporting to stakeholders
Responsible for reviewing predictive maintenance reports and determining work priorities based on severity.
Leading and Developing Talent
Provides reliability based and precision maintenance training
Provides feedback on expectations and performance for PdM team members
In partnership with Maintenance Leader, leads and builds an effective work team to increase plant performance and drive continuous improvement.
Defines and deploys appropriate reliability knowledge and capabilities for plant Maintenance teams members: Supervisors, Engineers and technicians
Leads/Manages external resources on projects and programs