Reliability Engineer Associate Project Coordinator;Agricultural Manufacturer; IA
Company Description
This privately held, family-owned, business ranks high amongst the world's leading producers of starch derivatives and is the largest producer of polyols(sugar alcohols)in the world. Since its foundation in 1933, this company’s development has been based on long term industrial strategy and an on-going drive to innovation and customer service. Employing 6K people, production facilities are located globally, and specialize in the processing of agricultural raw materials. Key markets include Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical, Industrial, Fermentation and Animal Nutrition. In the US, the company employs approximately 600 employees at two manufacturing facilities and business center located in the Midwest.
Two Reliability positions will be based at the Keokuk, IA corn-wet milling facility and the other Reliability position will transfer after min 6-months training/trial period to the Specialty Manufacturing facility north of Chicago, IL; require interaction with both Salaried and Union workforce.
Description: The Reliability Engineer Associate Project Coordinator will act as the technical resource for all matters of equipment reliability, providing a high level of technical expertise to assist with troubleshooting and problem solving activities. This position focuses on enhancing equipment reliability through analysis versus first response, day-to-day troubleshooting of failed equipment. Incumbents must demonstrate strong technical knowledge, strong interpersonal and communication skills and excellent external and internal functional/cross-functional communications skills to be considered for this position. Reporting to the Maintenance Group Manager.
The Reliability Engineer Associate Project Coordinator will be required to complete a comprehensive maintenance reliability training program. Travel will be required as classes will not be hosted onsite.
Main Responsibilities
- Determine equipment reliability analysis priorities based on established plans and objectives.
- Develop and recommend equipment asset plans using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Risk Based Inspections (RBI) and other reliability techniques.
- Execute reliability studies on existing equipment and recommend needed improvements to management in the areas of equipment philosophies and best practices for asset productivity.
- Apply engineering theory, practices, and principles to conduct physical failure analysis, determine root cause of equipment failures and execute equipment performance evaluations.
- Analyze equipment trends, historical data, and MTBF data to recommend and justify improvements to obtain lowest life cycle cost on different classes of equipment.
- Analyze all process equipment (including mechanical, electrical and instrument/control) to determine how process variation and equipment operation can impact equipment reliability and recommend improvements based on findings.
- Continually promote consistency by standardizing procedures/equipment/operations within area of responsibility.
- Participate as a member of mechanical turn-around/shutdown teams providing input into needed equipment inspection and repair procedures.
- Support capital projects by participating in setting equipment "fitness for use" criteria and specifications to optimize equipment/system reliability and life cycle cost. Also provide technical support for QA/QC, installation, and startup of all new critical equipment.
- Work closely with the maintenance management team in a partnership to achieve reliability excellence. Our desire is to become a world class maintenance organization.
Qualifications
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- BS degree in Engineering (e.g. Mechanical or Chemical) or equivalent experience;
- Prefer Certified Reliability Engineer: CRE / CRP / CMRP
- Prior maintenance reliability experience in a process oriented industrial setting (wet milling/pulp/chemical/etc)
- 3-5 years maintenance reliability experience
- 3-5 years industrial plant experience
- Demonstrated experience/knowledge of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT); (infra-red, vibration analysis, ultrasonic, magnetic-particle, liquid penetrant, radiographic, remote visual inspection (RVI), eddy-current testing, low coherence interferometry, and/or ex-ray)
- Demonstrates high level of technical skill
- Demonstrates ability to execute reliability improvement projects, with project development experience preferred
- Demonstrates knowledge of root cause failure analysis (RCFA) and reliability centered maintenance (RCM) methodology
- Demonstrates knowledge of predictive & preventive reliability technologies
- Demonstrates use of critical reasoning skills as they apply to problem solving and decision-making.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and/or prior experience (preferred) working with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). Prior experience with SAP preferred
- Demonstrates understanding of reliability centered techniques
The duties, responsibilities, and requirements identified by this posting should not be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by management as deemed appropriate.
The recruiting process will include a standard interview protocol, which includes multiple interviews with an established team and a formal 20-minute PowerPoint presentation by the candidate. The successful job applicant will be required to submit to and pass a post offer pre-employment physical, which includes a drug test.
Salary: Competitive (dependent upon qualifications and experience) • Bonus: up to 18% • Relocation Package • Benefits • EOE • NO Sponsorship available with this company
