Reliability Engineer - Aerospace Coatings Manufacturer

AkzoNobel•Waukegan, IL

2d•$90,000 - $100,000

About The Position

The Reliability Engineer leads reliability initiatives aligned with site and business needs, tracking work through completion to support production, quality, health, safety, environmental, and cost improvement targets. The role works across departments to establish a reliability-centered maintenance approach, communicating equipment criticality, upcoming projects and initiatives, forecasts, and improvement progress. The position develops and maintains predictive and preventive maintenance programs, analyzes equipment history and reliability performance, and drives continuous improvement through KPI analysis, root cause failure analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, equipment criticality assessments, maintenance strategies, and bad actor programs. It owns aspects of the site CMMS structure, maintenance task standards, and spare parts strategies, and coaches maintenance staff in reliability skills. The Reliability Engineer works with site engineers on mechanical integrity programs and serves as the primary maintenance interface for capital projects. Responsibilities on projects include promoting equipment standardization and maintainability, assessing criticality, completing FMEAs, and creating maintenance plans and spare parts strategies. The role may also complete equipment-reliability expense and capital projects and contributes to management of change and process safety management processes.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline, preferably mechanical or industrial, with 3–5 years of chemical or resin plant experience; alternatively, 6–10 years of maintenance and reliability experience in lieu of a degree.
Knowledge of the operation and maintenance of process equipment such as reactors, pressurized and atmospheric tanks, condensers, heat exchangers, evaporators, agitators, and pumps.
Experience with mechanical integrity codes and standards.
Familiarity with implementing or executing mechanical integrity, PdM/PM, RCFA/FMEA, equipment maintenance strategy, and bad actor programs.
Ability to sit, stand, walk, and climb in a manufacturing environment while wearing appropriate PPE, including a hard hat, safety glasses, and steel-toed shoes.
Strong computer skills and ability to learn specialized CMMS software.
Basic knowledge of electrical and control systems.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple organizational levels.

Responsibilities

Establish predictive (PdM) and preventive (PM) maintenance programs and ensure plans are completed on time and according to plan.
Review and prioritize PdM and PM feedback, investigate or arrange repairs, and enter work requests.
Maintain and review PdM and PM equipment history, identify trends, and take corrective action.
Analyze maintenance and repair history to identify and prevent recurring failures, implement corrective actions, and track improvement savings.
Improve reliability processes through KPI tracking and analysis, RCFA and FMEA execution, equipment criticality analysis, maintenance strategy creation, and bad actor program development.
Own the site CMMS equipment naming convention and functional-location structure, standardize and consolidate PdM/PM work tasks, and manage spare parts strategies.
Coach maintenance staff on PdM/PM tasks and skills and work with the Maintenance Supervisor to identify training opportunities.
Embed reliability-centered maintenance into maintenance activities, including PSM, MI, MOC, CI, and 5S.
Work with other site engineers to develop and execute a mechanical integrity program consistent with industry and AkzoNobel standards and best practices.
Act as the primary maintenance interface for capital projects and promote equipment standardization and maintainability.
For implemented projects, determine equipment criticality, complete FMEAs, and create equipment maintenance plans and spare parts strategies.
Occasionally complete expense and capital projects related to equipment reliability and contribute to MOC and PSM processes.