Reliability Technologist

BEL•Nampa, ID

About The Position

You know our brands, The Laughing Cow, Babybel, Boursin, Kaukauna, Merkts and Price's, which elicit smiles across America. They are daring, responsible and deliver dairy goodness. As you imagine, this mindset is contagious! Bel Brands USA is part of an international family company, which has led an ambitious growth strategy for 150 years and is today the world's third largest branded cheese company. If like our 12,000 employees globally, you want to have an impact in an entrepreneurial and demanding company, and share smiles around the world, dare to live the Bel experience! Be you. Be ambitious. Be Bel. Bel Brands USA has been named Chicago's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" for 10 years in a row. The company is headquartered in Chicago and operates three manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI, Leitchfield, KY, and Brookings, SD. Job Summary: The Reliability Technologist is responsible for improving operational performance (OEE) thru improved technical performance of the plant equipment. This role has specific responsibilities related to Preventative Maintenance programs and maintenance training programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or an Associate’s Degree in a field related to industrial maintenance preferred, or 10 years of experience in leu of a degree.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in Reliability or as a specialized Maintenance professional in a Process manufacturing environment.
Must have strong skills in electrical, mechanical and controls.
Must have basic PLC programming skills.
Must have strong skills in Excel, CMMS systems and data modeling.
Must have the ability to lead thru influence, work cross-functionally, and provide guidance, feedback and coaching to plant employees
Well-developed time management and organizational skills.
Ability to see the “big picture” and work independently.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with individuals at all levels of the organization.
Be a champion for safety, quality and GMP standards, as needed
Able to access all areas of the manufacturing facility including use of stairs, ladders, and the occasional powered lift.
Must be able to wear PPE and GMP attire.
Must be able to access tight areas and make adjustments to equipment with their hands.
Must be able to work 8 hours per day and be on his/her feet for extended periods of time.
Ability to lift up to 40 lbs.

Nice To Haves

Experience in food manufacturing with strong knowledge of Packaging Equipments (FFS, Topload, Casepacker, Palletizer, Wrapper, …) is strongly preferred.
Experience applying lean manufacturing and six sigma principles.
Experience implementing 5S standards and other Lean practices, including Visual Performance Management.

Responsibilities

Partner with other Technical Services team members and Maintenance personnel to prescribe, plan and ensure effectiveness of preventive and predictive maintenance processes for the facility. Recommend changes as appropriate.
Create and updates the maintenance plans (equipment, FMEA , spare parts, technical documentation)
Establish and own the adjustment sequences of equipment.
Own the red point process
Help to define the indicators of maintenance communication board
Suggest solutions for the elimination of obsolete equipment
Collaborate with the Parts Room Specialist, Maintenance Supervisors, and Technical Services team members to standardize and optimize the parts room inventory levels while meeting MTBF and cost requirements.
Partner with Maintenance Supervisors in maintaining effective organization of the maintenance workshop, including organization, 5S adherence, etc.
Provide technical expertise to the plant maintenance team in troubleshooting activities.
Assume ownership for development and execution of one or more reliability programs, which may include metrology management, red point management or training programs.
Develop, maintain and implement maintenance training programs.
Facilitate maintenance training and technician qualification/validation in partnership with Maintenance leadership.
Collaborate with Reliability Engineers to maintain and improve the CMMS software system (CORIM), including maintenance task management practices, technical profile management, etc.
Design or edit the equipment tree as needed to support proper information input/output
Train others how to use the CMMS and the desktop tools for monitoring malfunctions
Create, implement, and audit maintenance indicators and inform of any deviation
Participate in the development of maintenance budget (for major planned maintenance)
Suggest and implement the structure changes of CMMS to be more efficient
Collaborate in the design of engineering proposals to ensure maintainability of equipment. Manage and lead small engineering projects as required.
Participate in the analysis and the development of the project.
Write the functional FMEA and validate it.
In partnership with suppliers, evaluate and define technical solutions and validate their feasibility.
Consults and participates in the selection of suppliers.
Follow the technical side qualifications as needed and complete new PM tasks and PM plans.
Organize the appropriate technical files for projects as they are completed
Ensure the transfer to production and maintenance (qualification, documentation, and follow-through)
Ensure the technical reliability of FFS and Packaging Equipments and help to improve their level of OEE and quality performance mainly through facilitating the meetings and follow-ups of the OEE Group.
Participate actively in OEE groups for each workshop.
Help to prioritize actions from the daily results in the maintenance work order meeting.
Participate in any progress plans with the suppliers.
Take into account the requirements of industrial and food safety in the interventions, procedures, of preventive and predictive maintenance ranges.
Mentor and provide support/ training/ guidance to others within the plant in areas related to troubleshooting, repairs, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, industrial safety and food safety.
Make basic changes to automated controls programming as necessary. Collaborate with Reliability Engineers or subject matter experts on more complex programming needs.
All other duties as assigned