Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Responsible for electrical maintenance engineering activities to maximize safety, quality and productivity in the daily maintenance of plant equipment in order to drive continuous improvements to equipment availability and throughput.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Responsible for electrical safety design modifications and improvements to equipment and facilities.
• Responsible for electrical safety investigations and corrective actions.
• Responsible for developing, documenting, and improving preventive maintenance programs in order to support the improvement of equipment availability and throughput.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for equipment failures and loss of production. Assist maintenance and provide technical guidance required to return equipment to operation so as to minimize downtime and lost production.
• Provide “on call” support.
• Supervise and schedule daily work for plant electronic technicians.
• Responsible for analyzing production delay data for establishing and documenting or modifying preventive maintenance tasks.
• Generate continuous improvement projects based on production delay data.
• Prepare and review equipment failure/root cause analysis reports and determine/evaluate corrective action items and the impact of corrective action items to the preventive maintenance programs.
• Develop cost justifications for improvement projects and corrective actions.
• Develop work orders to detail work requests needed to implement improvements projects or corrective actions.
• Follow-up and audit to ensure proper completion.
• Coordinate outside contractor work activities with maintenance personnel or production personnel as required to minimize impacts to cost and production.
• Responsible for critical spare parts assessments and parts standardization.
• Responsible for developing and implementing standard operating procedures, training, and skill development for electricians and electronic technicians.
• Determine and install appropriate performance metrics that will promote long-term continuous improvement programs consistent with the operating objectives of the department.
• Provides support for problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships.
• Perform Project Engineering duties

Competencies

• Ability to provide leadership Expertise, knowledge and training in engineering and maintenance.
• Extensive knowledge and training in product manufacturing. General knowledge of manufacturing processes involved in manufacturing of forged or flat rolled metal products.
• Excellent interpersonal skills General traits such as action oriented, conflict manager, decision maker, comprehensive listener, time manager and positive attitude.
• Fulfill the roles of facilitator, coach, mentor, counselor and communicator. Computer skills and the ability to advance those skills as required

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Formal training or experience with Preventive and Predictive Maintenance programs.
• Maintenance Engineering or Maintenance Supervisor position with a minimum of 3-5 years of proven experience.