Reliability Engineer / Supervisor
Reliability Engineer / Supervisor
General Job Summary:
The Reliability Engineer is expected to promote and actively participate in the company’s Safety Program. The position will be required to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays as needed. The successful candidate will possess a strong background in the maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment associated with heavy industrial manufacturing.
Under the direction of the Maintenance Manager, the Reliability Engineer provides leadership and direction to the maintenance teams in the cement plant, supports planning of major and specialized maintenance jobs. Collaborate and participate in Operations and Maintenance jobs, developing and executing preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activity programs, and providing technical support to maintenance and other departments in continuous improvement activities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Supports safety culture and ensures compliance with safety rules and regulations.
• Reviews job orders to determine work priorities. Schedules repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment to ensure continuous production operations.
• Directs maintenance activities on utility systems to provide continuous supply of heat, electric power, gas, or air required for operations.
• Directs Maintenance Supervisors in daily work assignments, ensuring a reasonable completion rate of work orders. Ensure safe, efficient, quality repairs are completed.
• Develops preventive, predictive and autonomous maintenance plans that equipment requires throughout its life cycle, specifying frequency for each maintenance task, based on a normal operation and on the objectives of the Maintenance function.
• Suggests specific activities for inspection, lubrication, cleaning and change of parts to equipment, based on recommendations from the manufacturer, the supplier and from experience of Plant personnel, in order to timely detect and/or avoid equipment deterioration.
• Provides technical support and follow-up to major and highly specialized Maintenance jobs.
• Assures that all Maintenance and Operating tasks in the Plant are scheduled and planned as specified, following up the quality of jobs.
• Promotes ongoing improvement in equipment and administrative procedures. Work together with Production, Quality and Quarry personnel, exploring the opportunities to improve machines with respect to availability and reliability.
• Supports and to promote technical development of personnel of work teams.
• Collects and analyzes equipment history and investigate repetitive damages, in order to evaluate effectiveness of preventive – predictive Maintenance and operating procedures. The analysis of root – cause should be elaborated together with the plant management teams.
• Contacts original equipment manufacturers whenever it is necessary to resolve operating and reliability problems.
• Controls design and specifications of new parts or components.
• Assists in planning major shutdown work requests with a high degree of specialization, regarding instructions, human resources estimate, materials, special tools and estimated duration of jobs.
• Advises about technical problems found in equipment.
• Implements, updates and analyzes KPIs for the Maintenance Department.
• Assists with annual operating budget development.
• Contributes to capital expenditure project planning and execution.
• Performs other duties as required and/or assigned.
Qualifications:
• Minimum of 2 to 5 years of experience working in a cement plant operation or closely related industry
• Mechanical Engineering or STEM based bachelor's degree preferred
• Must be highly skilled with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written
• Strong background in workplace safety with history of industrial safety training
• Understanding of MSHA regulations
• Must be organized and detail oriented
• Must be able to work in a team environment
• Must be able to teach others as well as learn from others
• Experience with preventive maintenance systems such as TabWare would also be beneficial.
The Reliability Engineer is expected to promote and actively participate in the company’s Safety Program. The position will be required to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays as needed. The successful candidate will possess a strong background in the maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment associated with heavy industrial manufacturing.
Under the direction of the Maintenance Manager, the Reliability Engineer provides leadership and direction to the maintenance teams in the cement plant, supports planning of major and specialized maintenance jobs. Collaborate and participate in Operations and Maintenance jobs, developing and executing preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activity programs, and providing technical support to maintenance and other departments in continuous improvement activities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Supports safety culture and ensures compliance with safety rules and regulations.
• Reviews job orders to determine work priorities. Schedules repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment to ensure continuous production operations.
• Directs maintenance activities on utility systems to provide continuous supply of heat, electric power, gas, or air required for operations.
• Directs Maintenance Supervisors in daily work assignments, ensuring a reasonable completion rate of work orders. Ensure safe, efficient, quality repairs are completed.
• Develops preventive, predictive and autonomous maintenance plans that equipment requires throughout its life cycle, specifying frequency for each maintenance task, based on a normal operation and on the objectives of the Maintenance function.
• Suggests specific activities for inspection, lubrication, cleaning and change of parts to equipment, based on recommendations from the manufacturer, the supplier and from experience of Plant personnel, in order to timely detect and/or avoid equipment deterioration.
• Provides technical support and follow-up to major and highly specialized Maintenance jobs.
• Assures that all Maintenance and Operating tasks in the Plant are scheduled and planned as specified, following up the quality of jobs.
• Promotes ongoing improvement in equipment and administrative procedures. Work together with Production, Quality and Quarry personnel, exploring the opportunities to improve machines with respect to availability and reliability.
• Supports and to promote technical development of personnel of work teams.
• Collects and analyzes equipment history and investigate repetitive damages, in order to evaluate effectiveness of preventive – predictive Maintenance and operating procedures. The analysis of root – cause should be elaborated together with the plant management teams.
• Contacts original equipment manufacturers whenever it is necessary to resolve operating and reliability problems.
• Controls design and specifications of new parts or components.
• Assists in planning major shutdown work requests with a high degree of specialization, regarding instructions, human resources estimate, materials, special tools and estimated duration of jobs.
• Advises about technical problems found in equipment.
• Implements, updates and analyzes KPIs for the Maintenance Department.
• Assists with annual operating budget development.
• Contributes to capital expenditure project planning and execution.
• Performs other duties as required and/or assigned.
Qualifications:
• Minimum of 2 to 5 years of experience working in a cement plant operation or closely related industry
• Mechanical Engineering or STEM based bachelor's degree preferred
• Must be highly skilled with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written
• Strong background in workplace safety with history of industrial safety training
• Understanding of MSHA regulations
• Must be organized and detail oriented
• Must be able to work in a team environment
• Must be able to teach others as well as learn from others
• Experience with preventive maintenance systems such as TabWare would also be beneficial.
Date Posted
8/13/2024
8/13/2024
Location
USA
USA
Job Id
2241
2241
Industry
Cement & Lime
Cement & Lime
