Reliability Engineer

This position will be located at our Kingsburg, CA Float Glass facility. Reporting to the Reliability & Maintenance Manager, the Reliability Engineer provides technical leadership for cross functional teams, acts as a site subject matter expert (SME) for reliability and is a key driver of continuous improvement. This individual will need to utilize project management skills and economic thinking to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable solutions to drive operations excellence. Role activities include leading RCAs, FEMAs, implementing and managing predictive tools focusing on defect detection, and failure mitigation/elimination. You will work to continually improve asset reliability and production capacity through the elimination of repetitive failures, technical support of the maintenance function, and the management of appropriate Preventive and Predictive Maintenance processes.

What You Will Do

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA). A hands-on manner & working closely with departments to find, progress and implement solutions to improve equipment reliability

• Monitor and evaluate asset bad actor lists and generate solutions for the systematic elimination of bad actors

• Study equipment failures and implement solutions, in report format, to management

• Reliability data management, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), work order failure code analysis, maintenance of the asset hierarchy, Bills of Materials, technical library, etc.

• Provide feedback on training and implement continuous improvement of work practices associated with a Computerized Maintenance Management System

• Optimize Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Programs including systematically defining, developing, monitoring, and refining the preventive/predictive maintenance plans for both current and new equipment

• Facilitate Equipment Criticality strategy formulation and ranking sessions, conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, advance Predictive Maintenance technologies (e.g., oil analysis, vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasonic, online, and offline motor testing, etc.) are correctly applied on glass manufacturing assets

• Implement changes to maintenance plans based on failure modes, historical data, reliability principles and best practices

• Troubleshooting & problem-solving techniques, technical support for operations and maintenance

• Identification and implementation of projects to increase asset, resource and facility reliability

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering field

• 3 or more years of experience in an industrial or manufacturing maintenance and reliability environment

• Experience facilitating Root Cause Analysis and Reliability Centered Maintenance methods

• Experience and understanding of reliability systems, methods, and growth

• Experience analyzing data and taking actions against it

What Will Put You Ahead

• Continuous improvement experience or certifications

• Experience coaching and mentoring stakeholders in predictive and RCM maintenance capabilities

• Demonstrated experience in establishing and growing a Reliability Centered Maintenance culture

• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional

• Experience in the glass or ceramics industry

• Knowledge & implementation of predictive technologies (i.e., vibration, infra-red, ultrasound, machinery lubrication)

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