Reliability Engineer

What You’ll Be Doing

• Works safely and promotes safety in all aspects of employment.
• Promote a culture in which production, maintenance and engineering work together to identify and resolve abnormal or degraded equipment conditions that could negatively impact safety, quality or productivity.
• Responsible for initiating and developing concepts to improve plant efficiency, maximize equipment reliability and longevity, optimize maintenance spend and reduce energy costs.
• Act as a catalyst of strategic thinking by challenging site paradigms.
• Drive projects that will include product development, process improvement, and machinery development that will improve safety or competitive advantage.
• Collaborates with the maintenance and operations teams to drive maintenance excellence, ensure effective execution of reliability strategies, and the development of technical talent across the plant.
• Monitor and analyze equipment performance data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Utilizes data (CMMS, machine level data collection, plant performance metrics) to drive project prioritization.
• Applies reliability tools (RCA and FMEA) to determine the root cause of critical equipment failures and downtime. Identify the appropriate countermeasures and solutions to improve equipment reliability and prevent recurrence.
• Leads, champions and supports continuous improvement initiatives, activities and thought to optimize maintenance practices and reduce downtime.
• Executes weak-point analysis using Lean methods such as DMAIC, targeting cost reduction, efficiency improvement and trouble-free operation.
• Project leader - Oversees project workflow including concept development, budgetary costs, engineering design, fabrication, assembly, testing, installation, and startup through plant install.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree preferred.
• Lean and/or Six Sigma certification a plus.
• 7+ years of manufacturing engineering or maintenance experience and 3+ years of supervisory manufacturing experience; Experience in TPM or Reliability field required.
• Experience with CMMS implementation and utilization required.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this role is from $92,800 to $104,400, plus a monthly target bonus of 12.5% of base salary. At Sonoco Products Company, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive pay and benefits.

Schedule

This position is located in Newport, TN. Relocation assistance is provided.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Paid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and family.
• Variety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.

About the Role

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Plant Reliability Engineer is responsible for leading engineering and maintenance activities for the plant. This role will be instrumental in preventive maintenance and reliability processes activities. The Plant Reliability Engineer will play a key role to continually improve our maintenance process but also improving/upgrading our equipment technology and overall plant performance.