M&R Excellence Engineer

About the role

The Maintenance and Reliability Excellence Engineer supports the Kalamazoo, MI and Winona, MN sites. This position consolidates maintenance routine practices, improves Equipment Reliability, tracks Sites M&R Metrics, and coordinates action plans aimed to improve and sustain these processes.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate Routine Maintenance (Work Order Management Process)
• Be the Change Agent at the site(s) on Work Order Management process consolidation.
• Provide training and coaching to all stakeholders of this process on all the steps of the WOM, such as: notification creation, work prioritization and gatekeeping, work planning and scheduling, work execution first-time right through Precision Maintenance practices and continuous improvement.
• Check the quality of the information entered in the SAP system and support its improvement by providing continuous coaching.
• Track and monitor KPIs related to maintenance and reliability and help the sites improve them.
• Perform Wrench Time Analysis and support the sites in adding opportunities from the report to their TIP.
• Implement Proactive Reliability Process
• Create and modify Site’s Asset Register (Functional Location and Equipment)
• Perform Equipment Criticality Evaluation
• Perform FMEA, FMECA, etc. to optimize Asset Strategy
• Perform PM Optimization to ensure critical Equipment have proper PMs and non-critical equipment are running to failure (when possible)
• Standardize PMs across the board for similar Assets on similar criticalities to ensure consistency and dissemination of right strategies
• Evaluate Critical Spares
• Develop Equipment BOM from Critical Spares identified
• Capture and disseminate best practices among sites
• Update and revise the frequencies of maintenance plans based on changes in indicators
• Implement Predictive Maintenance Program tailored to the site’s equipment features
• Support Operation with Autonomous Maintenance (Operator Care) Program implementation
• Improve Reactive Reliability Process
• Report, Analyze and Support Sites to improve OEE, SAP Maintenance Costs and other related Bad Actors caused by Losses from Maintenance and Reliability
• Track Maintenance Losses on OEE and build Bad Actors List
• Provide Action Plan to Analyze and Improve Bad Actors
• Analyze maintenance costs to identify improvements.
• Implement, train and coach sites on Failure Analysis Tools/ processes.
• Develop triggers and a system to treat Failure Analysis based on Bad Actors Charts
• Establish a governance to follow Failure Analysis status and track their actions as well as verify their effectiveness
• Manage Contractors for Composite Materials Global initiatives
• Manage contracted out work for Reliability Improvement, WOM management, Storeroom improvement and condition monitoring implementation to ensure cost and due dates are in compliance with expectations.
• Improve Storeroom management
• Ensure MRO inventory is identified, quantified and optimized on the sites.
• Asset Life Cycle management
• Optimize Asset Life and Sustainability
• Track the life cycle cost of assets
• M&R Capex Support sites determine their 5-year M&R Capex Budget

Qualifications

• BS Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or related Engineering Discipline with 5+ yrs of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) preferred, CRL or other relevant reliability certification a plus.
• Experience in SAP ECC is a must.
• Experience in Equipment Criticality Evaluation, FMEA, PMs creation and Critical Spares Evaluation is a must.
• Experience with Predictive Tools/ Program implementation is a must.
• Strong leadership and communication skills are necessary to interact with both the technical and operations teams at the site.
• Must be highly effective in a cross functional environment with the ability to effectively lead cross functional teams that deliver results.
• Record of continuous improvement within a demanding, top-tier quality and safety, health and environmental culture.
• Good technical knowledge of industrial equipment regarding best practices (vibration, lubrication, alignment, etc.) and precision maintenance techniques.