Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Balchem Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets specialty ingredients that improve and enhance the health and well‑being of life on the planet, providing state‑of‑the‑art solutions and the finest quality products for a range of industries worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is located in Montvale, New Jersey and we have a broad network of sales offices, manufacturing sites, and R&D centers, primarily located in the US and Europe.

Founded in 1967, Balchem is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ – “BCPC”) with annual revenues over $900 million and a market cap exceeding $4.0 billion. The company consists of three business segments:
Human Nutrition & Health;
Animal Nutrition & Health; and Specialty Products. Balchem employs over 1,400 people worldwide who are engaged in diverse activities, committed to developing the company into global market leadership positions. To learn more about our dynamic, stable and growing company, visit

This role will report to the Engineering & Reliability Director and will be based out of our Montvale, NJ location. The Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer position provides strategic ownership of the Reliability and Maintenance programs with responsibilities spanning 10 plant locations throughout the Midwestern and Western United States.

• The Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer will maintain and improve performance of the company’s physical assets and monitor maintenance labor and material costs to achieve plant performance goals;
• Drives improvement of maintenance and reliability performance/ work processes using KPIs;
• This position requires considerable interaction with plant leadership teams, engineering, corporate functional leadership, external support, and contractors;
• Perform monthly analysis, establish maintenance strategy and improvements proposals for bad actors to be eliminated and drive bad actors elimination by organizing and facilitating site RCPS workshops within the site maintenance team;
• Develops and implements the Reliability Strategy at the sites, including Asset Criticality Assessment, PM Strategy (inspection task list & frequency) and Spare Parts analysis, to support the directives for the plant and monitors reliability performance and increase;
• Monitors maintenance and reliability spend across the region including labor, parts, and equipment; identifies trends and leads gap correction efforts;
• Ensures the integrity and maintenance of all plant assets, including production equipment, facilities, utility equipment, and grounds;
• Ensure capture and analysis of maintenance data and equipment work histories to support work of the site Maintenance Reliability engineers;
• May, from time to time, coordinate scheduling of and supervise work activities of contractors performing API (Vessels, Tanks, Piping) / MI Inspections for the company; evaluate contractor work, set expectations with contractor for safety performance, and ensure security of confidential information;
• Leads implementation of spare parts inventory program best practices and ensures sustainment of stock management discipline;
• Define the MI (Mechanical Integrity) Program for Inspection, Testing and Proactive Maintenance. A logical combination of proactive technologies, along with planned inspections (preventive tasks) consistent with current recognized and generally accepted good engineering practice (RAGAGEP);
• Review and optimize asset criticality, equipment maintenance strategies preventive, predictive and non-interventive strategies, and emergent work protocols;
• Ensures proactive (preventive and predictive) work strategies (frequency, task lists and critical parts) are aligned with asset criticality analyses to ensure the most efficient and effective maintenance processes;
• Conducts and facilitates Root Cause Failure Analysis for significant or repeat equipment failures, including FMEA as needed, and implements the maintenance Strategy improvements to eliminate recurrence;
• Ensures best practice utilization of CMMS systems including preventive and predictive maintenance procedures, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the dataset and files;
• Implemen…