Senior Engineer, Validation and Reliability

Job Description

Job Description

The Reliability Engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic asset reliability and maintenance programs across the manufacturing plant.

The position also serves as a subject matter expert (SME), focusing on developing and sustaining standards and best practices.

These efforts aim to ensure consistency and standardization in reliability program operations throughout the site working closely with local plant engineering, operations, continuous improvement, and facilities maintenance counterparts to facilitate the achievement of organizational objectives.

Improve the performance of physical assets and establish strategies to enhance maintenance and reliability performance using KPIs.

Collaborate with plant leadership, engineering teams, corporate functions, external partners, and contractors to achieve these goals.

Create and implement reliability strategies, including Asset Criticality Assessments, FMEAs, Proactive Maintenance (PM) strategies, and Spare Parts analyses. Develop and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and reporting systems to monitor and improve asset performance.

Align proactive maintenance strategies (e.g., preventive, and predictive tasks) with asset criticality to ensure efficient and effective processes.

Conduct and facilitate Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for significant or recurring failures, including FMEA when necessary, and implement strategy improvements to prevent recurrence

Ensure best practices in CMMS utilization, including maintaining accurate preventive and predictive maintenance procedures as well as asset master data, hierarchy, and configuration.

Analyze CMMS data to enhance reliability and reduce maintenance costs while ensuring visibility of performance metrics to site managers.

Drive the implementation and sustainability of effective workflow processes, including work request management, work request authorization, work order planning, kitting, scheduling, execution, and documentation / closure

Help lead TPM events to improve equipment performance and identify preventative maintenance improvements and opportunities to enhance autonomous maintenance activities.