Reliability Engineer

Eastridge Workforce Solutions is partnering with a company that manufactures and sells starches, sweeteners, nutrition ingredients, and biomaterials in its search for a Reliability Engineer in South Sioux City, NE. For immediate consideration, apply today.

The Reliability Engineer will assume the responsibility to implementing strategies to optimize asset lifecycle, minimize downtime, and improve overall operational efficiency. Additionally, this role will utilize analytics and statistical expertise to enhance asset availability, developing strategically optimized and reliable maintenance plans to augment process capability and increase production capacity.

• Efficiently implement advanced predictive maintenance technologies and methodologies to enhance equipment reliability utilizing innovative predictive tools, including vibration analysis, ultrasound, lubrication, and infrared thermography, to proactively identify potential issues before they escalate into equipment failures.
• Analysis of equipment reliability and performance data to gain comprehensive insights, identifying potential issues and failure modes through the application of reliability-centered maintenance techniques, ensuring a proactive approach to maintenance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement continuous improvement strategies aimed at optimizing overall equipment reliability and performance.
• Continuous improvement initiatives, cost-saving measures, digital transformation, optimization of asset life cycles, downtime reduction, and asset reliability management.
• Lead and drive continuous improvement projects to elevate the reliability and performance of factory assets and structures.
• Identify opportunities for minimizing downtime through proactive maintenance strategies with predictive maintenance methodologies to address potential issues before they impact day-to-day operations, ensuring uninterrupted productivity.
• Define the strategy for activities related to tribology and lubrication, encompassing vibration analysis, thermography, metal corrosion, asset integrity, thermochemical analysis, ultrasonography, and fault diagnosis.
• Analyze existing operational costs with a focus on implementing innovative and effective cost-saving strategies, ensuring resource utilization, without compromising the reliability of operations.
• Devise and execute strategies to optimize the life cycles of factory assets and structures, collaborating closely with engineering and operations teams to integrate reliability seamlessly into the design and planning phases, ensuring long‑term operational efficiency.
• Apply Life Cycle Costing methodologies for evaluating the economic life of assets, enabling modernization and reliability projects by making informed decisions based on a thorough understanding of maintenance costs, future resource needs, and potential investment alternatives.
• Spearhead transformative digital initiatives utilizing the IPS Reliability method for predictive maintenance and implementing state‑of‑the‑art technologies to amplify asset monitoring, performance analysis, and maintenance strategies, fostering a digitally optimized operational environment.
• Utilize techniques such as Six Sigma, Applied and Advanced Statistics, Predictive/Proactive Analysis & Tools, RCM, FMEA, FEMECA, Analytics tools, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and machine learning for innovation.

• Strong time management, excellent communication, and organizational skills.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams to streamline processes and enhance overall efficiency.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on reliability best practices.
• Foster good interpersonal relationships, empathy, team spirit, negotiation, and cooperation.
• Upskill and mentor team members, promoting a proactive and committed work environment.
• Ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships and to communicate across functional lines and at all levels.
• Ability to learn and apply Ingredion’s Safety, Environmental, GMP, and Quality standards.
• Ability to deliver results…