Reliability Engineer

Our company’s Pork has an exciting opportunity available for a Reliability Engineer at our Beardstown, IL facility. The Reliability Engineer is an individual contributor and will report to the Plant Engineering Maintenance Manager. This position will be responsible to drive the improvement of plant reliability and champion defect elimination efforts through engineered solutions. He or She will apply knowledge and experience to ensure continuous improvement to optimize the company's physical assets and maintenance and reliability processes and strategies.

The candidate will support the continued implementation and leadership of the Reliability Excellence process.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Coordinates and conducts M&R activities within criteria and time frames identified in internal and external Maintenance & Reliability requirements; using established protocols assesses Maintenance & Reliability requirements and coordinates necessary follow-up;

• Liaises with facility management, work force, contractors, community, and local regulators on routine communications.

• Performs failure fact finding using professional engineering principles on downtime related events for defined critical assets.

• Develops and implements strategies to identify, prioritize, and engineer proactive maintenance and asset reliability improvement processes and projects.

• Involved in the facility maintenance budget process and is responsible for using maintenance and reliability principles to improve the facility costs and productivity.

• Uses leadership and expertise in the principles of Root Cause Analysis and Reliability Centered

• Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.

• Review and monitor 5

WCA completion and subsequent results for effectiveness of root cause identification of failures. Escalation of root cause elimination where root cause is not known

• Resource for the facility on RCA

60% - Identify, investigate, develop and implement required actions, utilizing engineering practices to prevent & eliminate defects in critical plant assets

5% - Develops M&R management systems to achieve compliance and continuously improve performance.

20% - Collaborate with Site leadership, operations, commercial staff as required to develop and implement appropriate responsive programs for asset management

5% - Coordinate and act as a resource for M&R training for facility personnel

10% - Leads development and implementation of M&R strategies to achieve business and customer objectives with new assets added to the facility

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, or other related engineering/technical field preferred

• Minimum of five years experience in production, maintenance, or project management.

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems using formal techniques to evaluate systems, equipment, and processes.

• Strong computer based analytical skills.

• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP).

• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and make decisions independently

• Demonstrated ability to organize and implement projects which improve the operational effectiveness of a process.

• Experience using Reliability Centered Maintenance techniques, cause analysis, and predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, infrared, acoustic emissions, tribology, etc.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Direct Staffing Inc