Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer

Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer

This role will report to the Engineering & Reliability Director and has the option of being based out of our St. Louis, MO or Verona, MO locations. The Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer position provides strategic ownership of the Reliability and Maintenance programs with responsibilities spanning 10 plant locations throughout the Midwestern and Western United States.

Essential Functions:

• The Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer will maintain and improve performance of the company's physical assets and monitor maintenance labor and material costs to achieve plant performance goals;
• Drives improvement of maintenance and reliability performance/work processes using KPIs;
• This position requires considerable interaction with plant leadership teams, engineering, corporate functional leadership, external support, and contractors;
• Perform monthly analysis, establish maintenance strategy and improvements proposals for bad actors to be eliminated and drive bad actors elimination by organizing and facilitating site RCPS workshops within the site maintenance team;
• Develops and implements the Reliability Strategy at the sites, including Asset Criticality Assessment, PM Strategy (inspection task list & frequency) and Spare Parts analysis, to support the directives for the plant and monitors reliability performance and increase;
• Monitors maintenance and reliability spend across the region including labor, parts, and equipment; identifies trends and leads gap correction efforts;
• Ensures the integrity and maintenance of all plant assets, including production equipment, facilities, utility equipment, and grounds;
• Ensure capture and analysis of maintenance data and equipment work histories to support work of the site Maintenance Reliability engineers;
• May, from time to time, coordinates scheduling of and supervises work activities of contractors performing API (Vessels, Tanks, Piping) / MI Inspections for the company; evaluates contractor work, sets expectations with contractor for safety performance, and ensures security of confidential information;
• Leads implementation of spare parts inventory program best practices and ensures sustainment of stock management discipline;
• Define the MI (Mechanical Integrity) Program for Inspection, Testing and Proactive Maintenance. A logical combination of proactive technologies, along with planned inspections (preventive tasks) consistent with current recognized and generally accepted good engineering practice (RAGAGEP);
• Review and optimize asset criticality, equipment maintenance strategies preventive, predictive and non-interventive strategies, and emergent work protocols;
• Ensures proactive (preventive and predictive) work strategies (frequency, task lists and critical parts) are aligned with asset criticality analyses to ensure the most efficient and effective maintenance processes.
• Conducts and facilitates Root Cause Failure Analysis for significant or repeat equipment failures, including FMEA as needed, and implements the maintenance Strategy improvements to eliminate recurrence;
• Ensures best practice utilization of CMMS systems including preventive and predictive maintenance procedures, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the dataset and files;
• Implement the MI (Mechanical Integrity) Program at the Review and analyze data from inspections for information on equipment reliability issues on request of site maintenance engineers;
• Ensures best practice implementation and sustainment of workflow processes including but not limited to the effectiveness and efficiency of work request, work order creation, planning, kitting, scheduling, execution and work quality / closure;
• Analyzes CMMS data to improve equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs and ensures visibility of performance to site managers;
• Provides reliability and maintenance input on capital projects to guide project team on reliability and maintainability of the equipment. Provides input on the technical check out, equipment check out and commissioning of new assets. Ensures project related changes in equipment strategies and equipment specifications are updated in the CMMS database;
• Provides technical expertise for PSM (Process Safety Management) and MI (Mechanical Integrity) programs,

Requirements:

• 10+ years in Maintenance and Reliability
• Ability to build strategic relationships with key stakeholders across the operation to ensure improved collaboration and deliver results
• Experience using CMMS and ERP software.
• Mechanical Integrity and Process Safety Management Programs
• RCA and FMEA application experience.

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