Manufacturing Representative - Reliability
General Dynamics Electric Boat · North Kingstown, RI · 2 mo ago
Full-time
About the role
EB’s Reliability Team develops and implements objective, data-driven processes to increase equipment availability and reliability to world-class standards. The Reliability Manufacturing Representative plays a key role in executing the Reliability Program objectives, supporting operational continuity and excellence.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate equipment to:
- Document equipment subsystems and components
- Identify deficiencies that may lead to failures
- Identify critical spare parts and their respective minimum/maximum inventory levels
- Determine modifications needed to improve equipment reliability
- Work collaboratively to develop:
- Customized Lock Out/Tagout procedures
- Customized Operator Daily Checklists
- Equipment-specific training
- Optimized Preventive Maintenance (PM) procedures using formal risk assessments, historical data, predictive opportunities, OEM recommendations, etc.
- Plan and facilitate:
- Total Productive Maintenance events
- Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System events
- Failure Mode and Effects analyses (in conjunction with Reliability Engineering)
- Root cause analyses
- Serve as a change agent for EB's predictive maintenance program by:
- Supporting predictive inspections
- Educating personnel on predictive benefits and methodologies
- Helping develop and implement enabling systems and processes
- Develop and/or complete:
- Subcomponent hierarchies
- Risk assessments and potential solutions
- Spare parts requirements
- Equipment modification recommendations or changes
- Optimized preventive maintenance procedures
- Condition and criticality assessments/documentation
- Failure Mode and Effects analyses
- Equipment-specific training in conjunction with other organizations
- Facilitate events to identify, analyze, and resolve equipment failure risks
- Execute acquisition and commissioning of new equipment/facilities as specified by both formal and informal documentation
- Directly modify or coordinate external support for modifications to equipment to support improved reliability
- Lead and/or support completion of reliability-related projects and programs
Works under the supervision of the Reliability Program Lead. This position is located at the Quonset Point facility in North Kingstown, RI.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED
- Minimum of 5 years industrial maintenance and/or relevant trades experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with predictive maintenance or condition monitoring
- Electrical, Mechanical, or Hydraulic systems experience
- Experience with preventive maintenance procedure development
- Project management experience
- Experience with Six Sigma methodology
- Experience with Corrigo CMMS
- Experience with IBM Maximo EAM
- Trade-specific licenses or certificates
Skills
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Facilitation across groups of all sizes
- Organization skills
- Detail oriented
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to work within a diverse team environment
- Analytical skills
- Cross-shift availability
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new skills and technologies
- Knowledge of equipment design, function, and repair
- Ability to identify equipment subcomponents/update equipment drawings
Physical Qualifications
- Climbing
- Color Vision
- Crawling
- Heavy Lifting
- Kneeling
- Light Lifting
- Medium Lifting
- Pulling
- Pushing
- Reaching
- Stooping
- Twisting
Environmental Attributes
- Acids or Alkalis
- Cold
- Dry
- Dusty
- Fumes
- Hot
- Inside
- Noise
- Oily
- Outside
- Wet