Engineer Senior Reliability
About The Position
The Senior Reliability Engineer is responsible for managing assigned projects from concept through start-up, providing continuous in-plant engineering support to normal mill maintenance, and leading Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) to eliminate equipment reliability issues. This role involves providing technical assistance to production, reliability, and quality groups to solve equipment and process-related problems, optimizing manufacturing processes by investigating and eliminating root causes of equipment failures, and evaluating new technologies. The engineer will implement process changes and develop systems to reduce operating costs, increase production, and improve quality. They will also lead the technical process for operating areas, provide support data for reports, analyze production schedules for potential modifications to reduce downtime, and assist in designing solutions to eliminate equipment failures and process instabilities. Additionally, the role includes coordinating failure analysis, tracking and analyzing work orders to recommend changes in maintenance or operational procedures, developing and conducting technical reliability studies, investigating variables affecting products and processes, ensuring corrective measures meet reliability standards, and proposing design changes to improve system reliability. Collaboration with operations and maintenance teams to meet downtime reduction goals is also a key aspect. The position also involves assisting in the management of Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs, participating in the development of less experienced engineers, managing capital projects at times, and facilitating Reliability Steering Teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering required
- Minimum seven (7) years of experience in engineering, preferably in the paper industry and preferably reliability engineering experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Word and Excel.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work with vendors, managers, and production employees to achieve goals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Capable of managing Process Safety Management programs.
- Familiar with and have a good working knowledge of construction and repair codes (ASME, API, NBIC, NEC etc.).
- Must be capable of understanding and troubleshooting complex industrial systems and equipment.
Nice To Haves
- AutoCAD experience preferred.
- Knowledgeable with maintenance best practices (vibration analysis, oil analysis, etc.) preferred
- Understanding of LEAN manufacturing and Continuous Improvement (CI) concepts preferred
- Professional Engineering license preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage assigned projects from concept through start-up.
- Provide continuous in-plant engineering support to normal mill maintenance.
- Lead RCFA to eliminate equipment reliability issues.
- Provide technical assistance to production, reliability, and quality groups as needed to solve equipment and process-related problems.
- Develop methods to improve processes.
- Optimize manufacturing processes by investigating and eliminating root causes of equipment failures.
- Evaluate new technologies, implement process changes, and develop systems to reduce operating costs, increase production, and improve quality.
- Lead the technical process for operating areas to solve equipment and process-related problems.
- Provide support data for all reports and performance updates.
- Analyze data to reduce variability or improve performance.
- Review production schedules and suggest modifications for reduced downtime and/or change overs where applicable.
- Assist with designing solutions to eliminate equipment failures and process instabilities.
- Coordinate failure analysis and oversee programs.
- Track data by department and analyze work orders to recommend changes in maintenance or operational procedures.
- Develop, coordinate, and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts.
- Investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
- Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
- Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives.
- Propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
- Work with operations and maintenance teams to meet or exceed downtime reduction goals.
- Assist in the management of the Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs including vibration coverage through the mill, plant tank integrity, pressure vessel integrity, and pre-post failure reports.
- Participate in the development of less experienced engineers.
- Manage capital projects at times.
- Facilitate Reliability Steering Teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
