Job Summary:
The Reliability Engineer for Materne, North America in Traverse City, MI will be responsible for improving operational performance and ensuring the technical reliability of the plant equipment
Job Responsibilities & Tasks:
- Manage operational performance and technical reliability
- Facilitate and participate in OEE improvement initiatives and taskforces
- Lead and maintain continuous improvement project plans both capital and operational
- Learn, implement, and teach methodological tools necessary for problem solving
- Suggest improvement plans for some day to day production and maintenance needs, driven from daily plant production meetings
- Analyze daily reporting to determine where to plan daily actions to support performance
- Lead FMEA’s (functional analysis) for existing equipment
- Participate and carryout actions from FMEA’s (functional analysis)
- Own the red point (center line) process
- Manage the maintenance structure and support tools
- Build and maintain the asset criticality matrix
- Participate in creating and updating maintenance procedures
- Help to define the indicators on the maintenance communications boards
- Develop the PM ad PdM strategy for new and existing equipment
- Update PM and PdM strategy for new and existing equipment
- Evaluate PM and PdM effectiveness and propose updates/edits/deletions (reverse RCM)
- Own the CMMS definition and improvement modifications
- Create procedures regarding the use of the CMMS
- Train others on the proper use of the CMMS
- Develop and maintain technical process expertise
- Responsible to create and keep up to date maintenance procedures for industrial equipment
- Guarantee relevance of process and technical modifications
- Participate in qualifying new processes on technical and process aspects
- Overcome technical issues resulting from industrial trials and/or commercialization
- Help to define projects that are “to be assessed” based on developed process and internal proposals
- Define definite scopes for the projects
- Carry out contractor safety and GMP training for people brought on-site as needed
Key Performance Indicator (KPI):
Plant OEE, Maintenance Breakdowns, PM Efficiency
Position Requirements:
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent industry experience
EXPERIENCE
- 3 years relevant experience
- Experience in food manufacturing is preferred
SKILLS
- MS Office Suite proficient
- CMMS experience required
- Provide guidance, feedback and coaching for other plant employees
- Be a champion for safety, quality and GMP standards, as needed
PHYSICAL & TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Able to access all areas of the manufacturing facility including use of stairs, ladders, and the occasional powered lift.
- Able to work in normal office conditions
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Job Type: Full-time
Application Question(s):
- Application will not be considered if not answered:
Please state (YES or NO) if you have experience with any of following the following predictive maintenance technologies:
Vibration Analysis
Thermographic Imaging
Ultrasound
Oil Analysis
Electric Motor testing
Experience:
- high speed manufacturing equipment: 3 years (Required)
- CMMS: 1 year (Required)
- writing preventative maintenance plans: 1 year (Required)
- working in an operations and maintenance related field: 3 years (Required)
