Reliability Engineer - Manufacturing Plant Maintenance
About The Position
The Reliability Engineer facilitates development of the site maintenance and reliability strategy and resolves reliability and availability losses through the application of reliability technologies, data and tools. The role focuses on opportunities affecting measured asset capability and high-risk items identified through risk assessments, reliability models and plant health studies. The engineer quantitatively evaluates Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (PPM) effectiveness, develops equipment reliability strategies and leads corrective actions that enable the plant to meet its business plan and customer commitments. The role is full-time, salaried and exempt, with an annual bonus incentive. The schedule is days, with possible on-call troubleshooting. The position is based at the Spruance Manufacturing Plant in Richmond, Virginia. The Reliability Engineer works with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Procurement, suppliers and technical networks to prioritize reliability opportunities, investigate causes of losses, optimize PPM and condition-monitoring programs, improve lifecycle value and spare-parts decisions, and share proven solutions. Success is measured through validated corrective actions, improved reliability and availability, and reliability decisions tied to risk, plant health, asset capability and economic value.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
- Five or more years of maintenance or reliability experience.
- Five years of Process Safety Management or high-hazard process experience.
- Demonstrated experience using Emerson AMS for machinery health, asset monitoring, vibration analysis or predictive-maintenance workflows.
- Demonstrated experience using Lube-It or comparable lubrication-management software and lubrication reliability programs.
- Experience with reliability programs and technologies such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, ultrasound, infrared thermography and condition monitoring.
- Working knowledge of PPM data and maintenance information systems, including SAP or other CMMS.
- Knowledge of risk assessment, environmental impact analysis, reliability metrics, RCA triggers, economic evaluation and scope development.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, including statistical analysis and reliability modeling.
- Ability to measure the effectiveness of implemented solutions and connect reliability work to maintenance cost, asset utilization and site goals.
- Intellectual curiosity, including willingness to learn, test assumptions and pursue improved ways to understand equipment risk and reliability performance.
- Technical rigor in applying reliability methods, data and systems to deliver practical, measurable outcomes.
- Ability to use knowledge of organizational systems, procedures and culture to identify opportunities and increase customer and business impact.
- Collaboration and active listening when working across functions and with suppliers.
Nice To Haves
- Arclin line-of-business, process or site technology experience.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate development and implementation of the site maintenance and reliability strategy in alignment with Arclin business objectives.
- Create equipment reliability strategies using the Bad Actors List, Critical Equipment List, plant health findings and identified business needs.
- Develop and maintain models to identify unit operations, equipment and processes with the greatest value opportunity for improvement.
- Analyze asset utilization and cost data to develop and prioritize reliability opportunities.
- Evaluate and quantify how equipment reconfigurations, design changes, equipment quality and projects affect the plant’s ability to meet customer needs.
- Facilitate and implement the site Root Cause Investigation process, including cause-and-effect methods when reliability opportunities or investigation triggers are met.
- Define reliability and availability assessment requirements, investigation scopes and measurable corrective actions.
- Evaluate and validate the impact of actions affecting availability and reliability, and leverage successful solutions across the site or business where appropriate.
- Participate in plant health studies and lead corrective actions that maintain or improve plant health.
- Evaluate PPM program elements by quantifying the impact of failures and PPM tasks.
- Facilitate proactive PPM optimization to improve reliability, productivity and maintenance effectiveness.
- Establish, improve and sustain condition-monitoring and predictive-maintenance programs, including use of Emerson AMS, Lube-It and other approved reliability platforms.
- Apply Six Sigma tools and methodologies, process simplification, value engineering, maintenance strategy and reliability modeling to improve performance.
- Convert reliability-program findings into prioritized work orders, equipment strategies, corrective actions and measurable results.
- Apply total cost of ownership and reliability engineering principles with discipline teams and technical networks to build reliability into purchasing requirements.
- Provide equipment reliability, vendor-performance and modification data to technical resource networks.
- Optimize spare-parts stocking levels with MRO and discipline resources using critical-spare, slow-moving and ABC-category principles.
- Participate in reliability network activities and share proven solutions across the organization.
- Support applicable Activity Coordination objectives and links to project and technology-implementation processes.
- Engage Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Procurement and suppliers in value-driven solutions.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits as part of a comprehensive, integrated total rewards package.
- Annual bonus incentive.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
