Reliability Engineer

Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery • Cabot, VT

5d • $90,000 - $110,000 • Onsite

About The Position

How would we describe a career with Agri-Mark/McCadam/Cabot Creamery? More than 100 years of: Farmers, Family, Mission, Purpose, Sustainability, Respect, Integrity, Work Ethic, Teamwork, Pride in Award Winning Products, and Agriculture. Cabot Creamery achieved B Corp certification in 2012 and became the world’s first dairy co-op to do so. This certification demonstrates our commitment to transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. We have a great opportunity for a Reliability Engineer within our company. Position Summary To provide Reliability Engineering assistance to Maintenance Managers and Maintenance Planners to maintain and improve plant facilities, equipment and operations. This role will be located onsite at one of our plant locations (VT/MA/NY) with travel as needed.

Requirements

• Structured problem solving
• Root cause analysis
• Statistical analysis
• Effective collaboration with others
• BS Engineering Degree (Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering preferred) from an accredited college or university or 4-year degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide “expert” troubleshooting assistance as required to Maintenance and Plant Services personnel.
• Share in project implementation.
• Control quality, duration, cost and thoroughness of all project work.
• Ensure that good housekeeping and safe work practices are followed.
• Instructs crews in proper equipment usage whenever appropriate.
• Initiate cost-effective changes/modifications and updates to plant facilities and machinery.
• Provide Reliability Engineering assistance to Plant Leadership to maintain and improve plant facilities, equipment and operations.
• Provide necessary new or revised tooling, equipment, and facilities drawings, schematics and documents are maintained in electronic files.
• Provide training to maintenance personnel on production equipment and plant equipment such as ammonia and steam systems, HVAC systems, fire and security systems and process systems. Training to be both classroom and on-the-job.
• Assist mechanics with machine shop activities, including alternate sourcing (in-house or outside shop) to reduce parts costs on repair parts normally bought from OEM suppliers.
• Participate in maintenance excellence process to facilitate action plans that will improve the organization’s ability to reduce operating costs and improve reliability.
• Participate in investigation, development and implementation of all new capital equipment and assist Maintenance Manager with major modifications of existing equipment and processes.
• Assist in improving readiness of drawing files for maintenance use.
• Support the development of teams to improve problem solving and job development.
• Review computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) equipment history data and production downtime data to accumulate, trend, and analyze performance data.
• Modify collection procedures and codes to ensure capture is complete, coordinating with maintenance supervision, and production management on any system changes.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA Equipment Failure Analysis) on high-cost failures, high-downtime situations, and selected minor repetitive downtime situations in order to identify options for engineering solutions.
• Review planned preventative maintenance (PPM) data vs. equipment histories to identify tasks that need adjustment to frequencies or task details.
• Determine/review equipment lubrication requirements, methods, and frequencies to optimize equipment and component operating life.
• Participate in development of predictive maintenance analysis techniques including vibration analysis, infrared scans, corrosion analysis, and fatigue rate analysis.
• Conduct analysis of spare parts program to increase level of standardization and interchangeability.
• Assist in analyzing work productivity of maintenance personnel to ensure proper focus on continuing improvement; included will be work sampling.
• Conduct analyses of equipment history data that will facilitate root cause analysis on equipment failures and production downtime to assure continuing improvement in plant reliability.
• Conduct life-cycle cost analysis on high-cost components and spare parts.
• Actively support plant continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide indirect supervision/direction to preventive/predictive maintenance personnel as well as other support personnel in the department, to refine the planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and ensure reliability of equipment, processes, facilities and other system.
• Continually search for ways to eliminate maintenance work and to lengthen mean time between failures (MTBF).
• Promote Safety and Quality.
• Must be able to perform essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Develop and implement new systems and procedures.
• Utilizing Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA), assist in the design of new equipment to preventively address production, quality and safety risks while recommending effective error-proofing techniques.
• For new equipment purchases, manage effective Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) to ensure performance capabilities, utilizing statistical process control and setting required KPI goals.
• Utilize Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies to drive maintenance excellence.
• Utilizing Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA), analyze processes, identify potential failure modes and implement actions to mitigate risk.
• Measure continuous improvements to equipment reliability with KPI’s, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time to Repair (MTR), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Preventive Maintenance Effectiveness.
• Leverage visual management tools and techniques to identify and respond to issues real time.
• Deliver ongoing cost savings to the organization.
• Perform other duties, as required.

Benefits

• Our support of employee growth includes promoting from within, training and tuition reimbursement.
• Team members enjoy access to a comprehensive benefits package, competitive salary and a 401k with company match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees