Reqional Reliability Engineer

Kelly Engineering is seeking a Reliability Engineer to support plants in the Midwest. This is a 6 month+ contract position with our client, a Joliet area-based food ingredients manufacturer. If you are passionate about shaping the world we live in and are ready to reengineer your future, trust the experts at hiring experts., * Supports sites in analyzing downtime, identifying and correcting root cause issues, and eliminating bad actors.

• Works closely with multiple plants within their area to ensure the Reliability Program (Asset Care) is fully implemented and is delivering the expected performance.
• Creates a teamwork environment among their assigned plants and facilitates sharing of best practices and incident learnings.
• Participates in project reviews to ensure reliability is included in designs and supports major project implementation and commissioning.
• Performs benchmarking in their area to identify the best and worst performing sites as well as opportunities to optimize production volumes and OPEX and CAPEX costs.
• Supports sites in implementing best practices and standards such as minimum PM-PdM strategy, asset criticality, lubrication, and work management.
• Enforces global and regional policies such as management of change, downtime reporting, and RCA investigations.
• Analyzes plant maintenance metrics to identify gaps and improve performance
• Works together with the plant teams to optimize planned downtime, including reviewing the list of work to be completed during slowdowns and major shutdowns.
• Assists in developing the annual maintenance budgets (including major shutdown spending), and monthly spend analysis
• Serves as the maintenance and reliability SME for their area and maintains professional and technical knowledge through continuous learning.

• BS in Engineering or related technical program
• SMRP training and/or Certifications in Vibration 1&2; Infrared 1&2; Oil Analysis 1&2; and Ultrasonic 1 are pluses
• 15 years in Maintenance with at least 5 years' experience with predictive technologies
• Able to travel up to 50% to plants mostly in the Midwest
• Working knowledge of:
• Vibration data collectors and software, ultrasonic tools, IR camera, motor circuit analyzer and similar technologies
• Predictive maintenance strategy development and optimization
• Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis reviews, 5-Why and other approaches
• Food industry and business
• Leadership
• Possess a servant leadership style that can collaborate with Operations VPs and maintenance technicians.
• Advanced leadership skills in transforming reliability cultures and ability to turn around difficult sites
• Proven change management skills involving difficult conditions and urgent timelines (complex business processes, people, teams and functions).
• Record of coaching and developing others without direct reporting lines
• Ability to work autonomously and deliver results in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent administrative and analytical skills
• Advanced skills in SAP (highly preferred) Plant Maintenance and Material Management Modules or other ERP systems with/or CMMS

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