Reliability Engineer

RELIABILITY/MAINTENANCE ENGINEER | MARION, AR | AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING

The primary purpose of this position is to track the production losses, downtime, scrap, and maintenance costs, then find ways to reduce those losses or high costs. These losses are prioritized to develop a plan to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day support, monitoring, troubleshooting and improvement of uptime of all equipment and processes.

• Tracks equipment/process repair history and ensures quality data analysis for adjustment of the maintenance/production and improvement strategies OEE/OA for all processes.

• Supports capital projects, including scope and basic data development, project design reviews, and equipment start up.

• Works with multi-discipline systems, programs, and teams to improve processes based on business input (yield, uptime, capacity release, cost performance).

• Provides technical input or guides root cause analysis for equipment and processes related to performance, reliability, and quality investigations.

• Reviews, revises, and creates procedures, change point management, and other technical documentation as needed.

• Communicates effectively at all levels and across sites and functions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills required.

• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, and processes.

• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks

• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.

• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.

• Overall Equipment Effectiveness

• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.

• Data analysis techniques that can include:

• Statistical Process Control

• Reliability modeling and prediction

• Fault Tree Analysis

• Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis

• Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action

• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel).

• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• B.S. in Engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on, verifiable experience in reliability, preferably in automotive manufacturing.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

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• Hiring diverse talent

• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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