Maintenance Reliability Engineer

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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Job Summary

The Maintenance Reliability Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation and longevity of equipment within an organization. They focus on minimizing failures, optimizing maintenance practices, and enhancing overall reliability.

Essential Functions

• Determine the most effective maintenance practices for specific equipment or equipment types.

• Utilize Pareto Charts to identify and analyze equipment failures, prioritizing maintenance functions and equipment improvements.

• Utilize failure mode and effects analysis and risk analysis techniques to develop the most cost-effective maintenance strategies for all system components.

• Monitor performance of all equipment systems to determine the effectiveness of the Maintenance Strategies. Upgrade preventive, predictive programs as indicated by performance data.

• Perform root cause analysis on equipment failures.

• Develop strategies to prevent recurrence of failures.

• Implement risk assessment and risk mitigation methodologies (such as FMEA, RCA, or RCM).

• Lead change in equipment risk management and reliability processes

• Review and analyze engineering designs and propose design modifications to achieve reliability and efficiency.

• Evaluate, recommend, and acquire tools for use, including process analysis software, and other physical tools and resources specific to reliability and maintenance improvement.

• Collaborate with production personnel and other departments to gather information and draft reports, and improve equipment, processes, and products.

• Create test parameters and participate in the testing and implementation of engineering solutions.

• Establish continuous improvement plans where efficiency, quality, safety, or service can be improved.

• Lead teams by skillfully managing group discussion, problem solving, and decision making.

• Follow and commit to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for safety, quality, production, efficiency, and service requirements.

• Follow practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards.

• Follow and commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)

• Manage, prioritize, and complete projects or programs of moderate size, scope, and duration.

• Coordinate project work with other engineers, technicians, designers and/or or drafters

• Develop, implement, and maintain a life cycle asset management process for components, equipment, and processes at all facilities.

• Assemble relevant data, a cross-functional review team and facilitate Reliability Centered Maintenance studies to develop Maintenance Strategies for the selected systems.

Job Qualifications

• MS Office 2010 (Excel, Word, Outlook) and general computer literacy

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Must be a self-starter, team player, work well with others and have a positive attitude.

• Must be a creative thinker, results oriented, focused, and attentive to detail and accuracy.

• Must have ability to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines.

• Sharp, quick, dedicated, and innovative problem solver

• Core values and continuous self-improvement

• Must be organized, detail oriented, and able to think designs through completely.

• Understanding of reliability and improvement concepts, including DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve Control.

• Proficiency in project management related to equipment reliability.

Certifications

• ISO, II, CAT, CBM, M&RE, 9000, CMRP, CI, CHMM, or NEBOSH

Required

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Chemical), Science, or Technical fields. Mechanical Engineering Degree is preferred.

• 3 to 5 years of process industry related experience with automation control, PLC Ladder Logic programming, HMI design and configure.

• Familiarity with FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis), LEAN principles, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance).

Environment

Office work area is a climate-controlled environment. Requires time in the manufacturing area (<50% of time) interacting with maintenance and production teams where it is a hot/cold, dusty, and noisy environment. While in the manufacturing area, required PPE must be worn. Sitting, standing and/or walking up to 8 hours per day. Work schedule is standard for this type of role. This position may require some travel.

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