Sr. Reliability Engineer

Schwan's Company • Beaumont, CA

6d • $93,000 - $154,000 • Onsite

About The Position

CJ Schwan’s is seeking a Sr. Reliability Engineer to join their Engineering team at their Asian foods plant in Beaumont, CA. Reporting to the Sr. Director of the plant, this role is responsible for examining and monitoring current production equipment, developing reliability solutions to ensure optimal equipment effectiveness and efficiency. The engineer will conduct various analyses to identify areas for improvement and create solutions for production challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Must obtain Re-certification by SMRP standard or equivalent within 2 years in this role.
• 7+ years related experience in maintenance and reliability, production management, engineering or operations.
• Knowledgeable in reliability testing methods including FMEA/FMECA, reliability prediction, fault tree analysis, parts stress analysis, and worst-case analysis.
• Working knowledge in statistical methods.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills.
• Proven project management experience with coordination of multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, leadership, and communication (both written and verbal) skills.
• Excellent PC skills including Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Willing and able to travel up to 10-20% of the time to other CJ Schwan's facilities.

Nice To Haves

• Previous food industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Measure and analyze the reliability of the design, materials, processes, cost, and final products of production equipment.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations, including capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues. Data analysis techniques may include statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, fault tree analysis, Weibull tree analysis, and six sigma methodology.
• Professionally and systematically define designs, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes value-added preventive maintenance tasks and effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
• Participate in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical suppliers and technical maintenance service providers.
• Develop acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Advise design engineering team on selection of materials. May also recommend changes to the selection and application of production equipment.
• Perform breakdown analysis and root cause analysis thoroughly, presenting findings to senior leadership.

Benefits

• Eligibility for a 10% annual incentive bonus, which is based on organizational performance.
• Competitive Total Rewards package designed to support overall well-being.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Time off programs.
• Retirement and financial offerings.

What This Job Offers

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