Reliability Engineer

IKO•Kankakee, IL

About The Position

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you! Job Description Role: Reliability Engineer This is a Safety Sensitive position. Job Summary: The Reliability Engineer role is focused on developing and implementing corporate preventive and predictive maintenance systems—primarily using IBM Maximo CMMS—for manufacturing facilities. The goal is to enhance plant equipment availability, safety, quality, and operational efficiency through best-in-class reliability strategies. Learn more in this video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xT7ShzEAhI

Requirements

Completion of University degree in Engineering (preferably in Electrical, Mechanical or Reliability Engineering)
3 or more years of experience in process manufacturing or industrial equipment design environments (Preferably with Maintenance)
Fluent in oral and written English
Proficiency with MS Excel, AutoCAD, and CMMS
Proven problem solver with various methodologies
Experience with plant Planning and Scheduling, shutdown procedures and Best Practices
Willing to travel occasionally within North America for training and/or assist at other IKO Plants
Excellent communication and analytical skills
Self-directed, takes initiative and is self-motivated to exceed Roles, Responsibilities and Expectations
Facilitation of multiple RCM’s using FMECA’s to set Criticality to equipment failure modes

Responsibilities

Implement and optimize cost justified Predictive and Preventative Maintenance Strategies and Reliability Best Practices at the plant.
Providing necessary CMMS related training to the end users, adhering to the Maximo SOP.
Administrating, maintaining and continuously improve the Electrical and Mechanical Preventative Maintenance system to improve safety, product quality, production efficiency and labor/material effectiveness.
Analyzing the Pareto value of Production Losses due to downtime, rate reduction and waste of specific critical equipment, identifying highest gain for Root Cause Analysis efforts.
Reviewing downtime data history to identify trends and repeat events leading up to failures as part of the methodology identifying root causes of failures in equipment and processes.
Facilitating RCM, using FMECA’s to assess criticality ranking of existing Failure Modes, identify and design out the Root Causes of defects and develop Predictive and Preventive Strategies to reduce impact or detect defects early enough to correct before an unplanned failure.
Assessing and optimizing the spare parts required to support the critical PM tasks developed from the RCM.
Evaluating justification of new technologies or inspection procedures to replace current instrumentation controls, sensors, drives, and other electrical components and inspection strategies.
Other related reliability and maintenance responsibilities.