Reliability Manager

West Fraser•Dudley, GA

13h

About The Position

The Reliability Manager identifies and manages asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. The role guides efforts to ensure the reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety and process safety systems. Its scope includes loss elimination, risk management, life cycle asset management, and capital project management. The position develops and refines asset maintenance plans, including value-added preventive maintenance and effective predictive and non-destructive testing methods. It develops engineering solutions to recurring failures and other problems affecting capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance, using data analysis and root cause methods. The Reliability Manager works with project and area engineering throughout the life cycle of new and modified assets, contributes to design and installation specifications and commissioning plans, evaluates equipment and service providers, develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria, and participates in final installation check-outs and factory and site acceptance testing. The role also contributes to risk management, analyzes asset performance with Production, provides technical support, and applies value analysis to repair, replacement, redesign, and make-or-buy decisions. Other duties may be assigned by the General Manager.

Requirements

Must be eligible to legally work in the United States.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
Eight or more years of relevant maintenance and/or reliability experience with fixed plant equipment.
Experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment; forest products industry experience is preferred.
Experience in project management.
Managerial or supervisory experience.
Advanced computer skills, including MS Office software.
Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and failure-detection tools such as vibration analysis, oil monitoring, and thermography, as well as associated software.
Strong mechanical and electrical knowledge and aptitude.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in relevant areas of CMMS.
Knowledge of mill processes and equipment.
Good oral and written communication skills and team-building skills.
Strong fundamental understanding of mechanical, hydraulic, and circulating systems operation, contamination control, and maintenance functions.
Demonstrated initiative and strong work habits.
Ability to organize, plan, and establish a routine of activities to ensure principal accountabilities are met.
Proactive, questioning, get-it-done attitude.
Basic understanding of maintenance activities and equipment.

Responsibilities

Define, design, develop, monitor, and refine asset maintenance plans, including preventive maintenance tasks and predictive or non-destructive testing methods.
Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other issues affecting plant capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance.
Use data analysis techniques, including statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, fault tree analysis, and Six Sigma methodology.
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA).
Work with project and area engineering to ensure reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations, following the life cycle asset management process throughout the asset life cycle.
Participate in developing design and installation specifications and commissioning plans.
Participate in establishing evaluation criteria for equipment, technical MRO suppliers, and technical maintenance service providers.
Develop acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
Participate in final check-out of new installations, including factory and site acceptance testing against functional specifications.
Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
Provide input to a risk management plan covering risks that could adversely affect plant operations.
Work with Production to analyze asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life, and other operating condition, reliability, and cost parameters.
Provide technical support to production, maintenance management, and technical personnel.
Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the General Manager.