Asset Equipment/ Reliability Engineer

Career opportunity to join expanding chemical leader as Lead Engineer for maintenance, reliability for fixed and rotating equipment for the plant site. Provides asset maintenance, reliability, outage guidance and overall asset care.

Responsibilities:

–Improve/develop a reliability strategy based on the business needs including identification of the critical spare equipment/ parts and determination of their inventory parameters, enhancement of the PM program, and development of an asset care plan.

–Manage all areas of mechanical equipment related maintenance not being covered by the MI program.

–Coordinate plant changes, both equipment and process, which improve plant OEE, yields, equipment, reliability, process quality, and preventive maintenance.

–Analyze maintenance costs and/or repair frequencies and use existing analyses of OEE losses to identify bad actors and develop measures to improve or replace the assets.

–Lead and manage cross-functional teams with Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis and Six Sigma Teams, Investigations, and Equipment Improvements.

–Prepare monthly reports summarizing the status of major maintenance and reliability activities and their on-going capital projects.

–Execute maintenance work orders – assuring work order quality metrics are met as well as assuring operators are entering work orders in JDE for all non-optimal issues in the plant. Set the weekly/daily maintenance scheduling priorities.

–Lead and coordinate RCA investigations for all bad actors and significant reliability incidents. Assign RCA leaders and resources. 

Qualifications:

–BS Engineering degree with 5+ years experience as Reliability/ Maintenance Engineer working in a PSM regulated chemical plant.

–Solid technical knowledge of predictive and preventive maintenance, mechanical integrity, and asset care/ OEE.

–Extensive experience with RCM, RCA, Six Sigma, CMMS programs.

–Ability to work now and in the future without sponsorship.