Reliability Superintendent

Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Lead a group of Reliability Engineers to Develop, implement, and own strategies that will improve current maintenance practices and processes driving better equipment uptime, lower repair costs, and lower material inventory levels/costs.
• Identify & implement improvements in process & equipment reliability across the Mill by working closely with operations & maintenance personnel.
• Provide maintenance engineering, technical assistance & reliability leadership/support.
• Serve as a key interface for Reliability improvement by reviewing equipment history & performing failure cause analysis.
• Review existing preventive maintenance processes for value to the maintenance effort & propose changes as necessary to improve the reliability of the assets.
• Guide efforts to maintain and/or improve the reliability of plant equipment and processes.
• Define, develop, administer, and refine the equipment asset care, condition monitoring and preventative maintenance programs.
• Execute an outage strategy to perform annual maintenance and increase equipment reliability.
• Review and follow-up on equipment failures, utilizing root cause failure analysis, and offering solutions and own corrective action to prevent future failures.
• Integrate reliability-centered maintenance, risk-based inspections, equipment condition monitoring, root cause analysis, critical spare parts management and other reliability best practices in normal day-to-day activities.
• Provide technical expertise for the analysis, development and evaluation of new maintenance technologies and equipment, and fully utilize all existing technology.
• Serve as a resource for operators and maintenance to learn and understand more about maintenance processes and their related systems and strategies.
• Identify opportunities for improvement within processes, equipment/controls, environmental/safety areas, employee work environment, costs, quality, etc.
• Develop optimization/improvement strategies based on systems analysis and performance metrics.
• Track cost savings associated with Continuous Improvement efforts.

  Key Skills

  • Passionate about Reliability with a strong desire to improve the mill performance.
  • Ensures compliance with all safety and environmental regulations.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels within the mill.
  • High degree of collaboration with both Maintenance and Operations personnel.
  • Working knowledge of Planning and Scheduling Standards.
  • Strong interpersonal, leadership and time management skills
  • Strong organizational and planning skills, with the ability to multi-task
  • Analytical, critical thinking and proven problem-solving skills
  • Be highly motivated, innovative and results-oriented
  • Exceptional oral and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively
  • Advanced experience, knowledge and understanding of safe work practices

    Required Professional Experience/Qualifications

    • BS Degree or Technologist in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
    • Minimum of 10 years working in an industrial environment
    • The ability to influence operations to ensure proper operation of equipment, basic care, and early identification of problems.
    • Experience in utilizing reliability systems, methods and processes
    • Knowledgeable using a Computerized Maintenance Management System or ability to learn
    • Willingness to work extended hours to support plant outages
    • Strong knowledge of work process flow.
    • Proven track record of implementing successful reliability practices in a mill environment.