Reliability Planning Manager

Americold • Manchester, PA

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About The Position

The role of the Reliability Planner is to improve asset availability and
reliability by anticipating and eliminating potential downtime through planning
and coordination of labor, parts/materials and equipment access on a daily,
weekly, monthly, and annual basis for assigned region. S/he leads reliability
engineering planning, leads asset condition monitoring, optimizes asset
reliability through maintenance data analysis, and supports Maintenance
Excellence initiatives across the region. This position provides support for
maintenance management programs, metric reporting, training, and performs data
collection, data analysis, program audits, and supports implementation of
maintenance and reliability improvement plans.

She/he leads the reporting and analysis of predictive maintenance (PdM) and
reliability centered maintenance (RCM) processes that report asset health to
proactively identify issues prior to failure, and monitors assets within across
the region to ensure continuous improvement.

Assists regional leadership with development of site specific Capital Expense
planning leveraging EAM system to identify Bad Actors, Life Cycle Costing, and
End of Useful Life.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field and one year experience or High school diploma / GED and three years’ experience facilities maintenance support experience
• Experience in leading improvement efforts in reliability and predictive/preventive maintenance
• Experience in data analytics and reliability centered maintenance preferred
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Business Analytics Tools
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience with CMMS, SAP or Oracle preferred
• Full understanding of Preventative Maintenance Programs

Nice To Haves

• Have industrial maintenance background which may include hydraulics, electrical, building maintenance, industrial ammonia refrigeration system, and basic troubleshooting skills
• Ability to interpret and analyze data
• Ability to fully leverage a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Knowledge of principles involved in Preventative/Predictive Maintenance
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to travel 20%+ as required

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance activities across region for assigned sites, with an emphasis on weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
• Evaluates the needs for replacements parts and critical spare parts inventories for assigned sites and supports the identification of optimal stock levels, min/max levels and obsolete parts
• Working with Engineering & Maintenance Managers (EMM), coordinate, review, and improve the Engineering & Maintenance Reliability score
• Maintains a working schedule of on/off days, and non-operating days to maximize equipment availability of available technician labor hours and tracks technician utilization
• Ensures technician available labor hours are 100% scheduled
• Maintains appropriate records, ensures data integrity to permit meaningful analysis, tracks KPI’s as identified, identifies / performs analysis for improvement, collaborates with SMEs to identify critical failure modes, develops PMs / PdMs to mitigate risks, and generates facility and district maintenance performance reports
• Reviews all work order feedback and updates PMs accordingly
• Responsible for creating and maintaining comprehensive Preventive Maintenance (PM) plans in the CMMS and ensures all PM routines are consistently reviewed and improved upon
• Develop measurements for tracking the success and timeliness of maintenance activities such as PM work order completion rates, Planned/Scheduled work order completion rates, etc.
• Support parts and vendor setup in CMMS
• Work directly with outside contractors/partners on providing PMs service to relevant equipment.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to enhance equipment reliability through acting as administrator for PdM and Condition Monitoring programs, supporting Maintenance Diagnostics, leading the Bad Actor program, driving Comparative Analysis, facilitating PM Optimizations, tracking Tactical Improvement Plans, and proactively identifying potential equipment failures
• Responsible for developing and maintaining an updated library of OEM manuals
• Ensure Equipment setup/deactivation, task lists, and site maintenance plans
• Performs data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and explanatory analysis to identify risks and issues with asset reliability and develops actionable recommendations
• Train associates on proper usage of CMMS system and Reliability Maintenance
• Assist EMM with tracking of technician training and development
• Other duties as required

Benefits

• Our associates know the answer to the question What’s in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being.
• When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level