Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Apply engineering concepts to the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability and reliability and availability of equipment and this is measured with overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) at our facility.

Key responsibilities include:

• Planning, evaluating, organizing, and implementing assigned installation, maintenance, and repair activities and coordinating with other departments to assure minimum downtime for production and maximum safety of employees
• Implementing and supporting the computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) we use SAP at our location

Additional duties involve:

• Maintaining maintenance project schedule (rebuilds, small OPEX projects, and scheduled down days) by monitoring project progress; coordinating activities; resolving problems
• Preparing project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends; recommending actions
• Interacting with managers and supervisors at plant to secure appropriate resources to plan and implement maintenance projects
• Driving asset care and total productive maintenance strategies
• Leading maintenance planning and process procedure improvements using reliability tools hands-on facilitation of root-cause analysis events
• Managing predictive maintenance program including thermal scanning, ultrasonic, vibration monitoring to ensure compliance to established standards
• Partnering with members of the maintenance, engineering, and environmental teams to ensure best maintenance practices are employed
• Performing and leading failure mode equipment analysis (FMEA's)
• Analyzing predictive maintenance data to ensure proper preventative maintenance activities are being conducted
• Reviewing engineering specs and design modification to process equipment for reliability capability
• Performing root cause analysis as well as implementing sustainable countermeasures on losses related to maintenance by working with operations and maintenance personnel
• Ensuring professional maintenance (PM) is accomplished in a timely manner and are to a high standard of quality work with maintenance supervisor to develop PM's that drive improved reliability
• Developing and maintaining standard operating and maintenance procedures, and work instructions
• Maintaining records of plant and individual equipment performance preparing and maintaining data sheets, wiring, process & instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) and flow charts required for the proper and efficient operation of plant equipment
• Advising on proper execution and documentation of repair and preventive maintenance (PM) activities
• Analyzing and presenting accurate data and information from records to prepare reports, statistics, etc. in support of continuous improvement of reliability
• Reviewing entire project for continuity and completeness
• Assisting in capital project management as required
• Maintaining continual communications with all personnel assigned to the project
• Scheduling periodic meetings with stakeholders to keep them informed of the project status
• Determining project staffing needs through coordination of supervisors & managers
• Using staffing charts to help track and facilitate progress and to keep the project on track
• Managing/supervising the project staff
• May delegate technical supervision for portion of work as being a maintenance engineer duties includes recognizing the need for assistance to meet schedules
• Continuously evaluating workplace for safety concerns and ensuring behavioral safety initiatives are performed to goal levels
• Assuring good housekeeping practices following SS systems, enforcing plant rules and safety regulations, and supporting Vallourec star initiatives
• Working closely with production, maintenance, and safety managers to coordinate any proposed changes using the change management system
• Working with maintenance/production managers for OPEX funds
• Providing input for the maintenance budget
• Supporting autonomous maintenance through training of operators and ensuring that equipment basic conditions are maintained throughout the plant and additionally, must be able to provide training for operators and maintenance personnel

Experience, skills, and knowledge:

• Working knowledge of TPM, root cause analysis, predictive and preventive maintenance systems, and visual plant concepts
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to plan and organize
• Strong leadership skills that includes a strong sense of ownership and results orientation
• Working knowledge of Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing (this can be acquired on the job)
• Experience in a continuous manufacturing environment
• Proven ability to use analytical tools and problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to accomplish goals in team-based environment
• Technical skills
• Project management
• Safety management
• CAD
• Circuit design (hydraulics, pneumatics, and electrical)

Education, training, and certifications:

• B.S. in mechanical engineering

Critical competencies & capabilities:

• Directable, teamwork, adaptability, accountability, reliability/dependability, initiative
• Safety awareness, ability to receive and provide constructive feedback, pride in performance, continuous improvement/quality, communication, positive responses to change, and high attention to detail.