Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Review the reliability schedule on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to ensure the proactive maintenance of production equipment.
• Organize, staff, direct, and control reliability functions to achieve plant objectives.
• Perform and complete Root Cause Analysis on equipment as deemed necessary by Senior Management Staff.
• Accurately and efficiently perform, document, and communicate Maintenance assessments on a continuous basis.
• Develop a subordinate staff and select and develop key subordinates.
• Oversee the continuing training of existing and any new employees to the Department.
• Engineer solutions to extend equipment life and reduce downtime.
• Work with the maintenance team leaders to improve and understand daily issues.
• Monitor and identify problem areas in the facility before a breakdown.
• Research and guide the implementation of new equipment to improve efficiencies.
• Work closely with the Engineering & Maintenance Manager on the annual budget for Training, New Equipment installs, upgrades to existing equipment, and update Maintenance KPIs.
• Ensure relevant Preventive Maintenance work orders are in place and spare parts inventory is adequately maintained.
• Direct supervision and leadership of the Electrical Maintenance Technician team.
• Execute major maintenance programs and project management.
• Manage process and equipment reliability programs including: Root cause failure analysis, managing condition monitoring functions, life cycle asset management of process equipment, and providing technical support to area operations and maintenance.
• Work with area operations and maintenance to troubleshoot process and equipment issues to increase reliability.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or 2-year post-secondary education in mechanical discipline with relevant experience.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of industrial experience in a process/manufacturing industry, with experience in reliability or plant maintenance areas considered an asset.
• Designation: Maintenance Management Professional, Reliability Certification, or working towards such a designation is considered an asset.
• Skills: Strong sense of urgency and curiosity, good communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills, excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, and a desire to grow and develop leadership and technical skills.