[Remote] Reliability Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. U.S. Sugar is a company focused on sugar manufacturing, and they are seeking a Reliability Engineer to improve asset reliability and manage Preventive and Predictive Maintenance processes. The role involves providing technical expertise, conducting analysis and studies on equipment failures, and optimizing maintenance strategies.
Responsibilities
- Act as a site Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Reliability activities
- Perform Pareto analysis on uptime/production losses; monitor and evaluate asset bad actor lists from OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) reports
- Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
- Provide Loss Elimination plans from RCA’s, ensure the plan’s approval and facilitate its implementation
- As an integral team member and in a hands-on manner, work closely with client departments to find, progress and implement solutions to improve equipment reliability
- Perform studies on equipment failures and present solution(s) to management. Prepare diagrams, drawings, charts, calculations and reports for defining reliability problems and recommending solutions
- Advise and provide training in and implement SAP PM Module (CMMS)
- Manage reliability data, work order failure code analysis, maintenance of the asset hierarchy, bills of materials, technical library, etc
- Perform PM optimization: implement changes to equipment maintenance plans based on failure modes, historical data, reliability principles and best practices
- Manage the results of Condition Monitoring Functions: manage and optimize Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Programs including systematically defining, developing, monitoring and refining the preventive/predictive maintenance process in pursuit of optimization
- Ensure that Predictive Maintenance technologies (e.g., oil analysis, vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasonic, electric motor testing, etc.) are correctly applied on sugar manufacturing assets
- Facilitate Equipment Criticality strategy formulation and ranking sessions
- Conduct FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
Skills
- A Mechanical Engineering Degree from an accredited institution
- 10 to 20 years of related experience in a heavy manufacturing environment, similar to ours – Sugar, Oil/Gas, Power Plant, Chemicals, Pulp/Paper, bulk food, etc
- A Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP)
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
- A very hands-on approach
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