Reliability & Maintenance Engineer

The incumbent is responsible for establishing guidelines and specifications for properly implementing equipment and preventive maintenance activities. These guidelines and specifications identify equipment/instrument specific PM criterial (i.e.: Task, Frequency, Materials, Skill, Calibration parameters, etc.). The incumbent will oversee the administration and oversight of the PM/Calibration Program, provides technical assistance and expertise to maintenance and operations personnel to ensure compliance to PM program requirements. Identifies chronic equipment (classification based) deficiencies through analysis and reporting, performs reliability analysis to identify root cause of ongoing issue, develops, changes and initiates maintenance activities such as PM, CBM, lubrication, calibration, training and spare parts or identifies design modification projects to improve performance and equipment availability. Develops and implements equipment reliability plans that reduce the number of failures and minimizes the effects of failures that do occur. Typical “reliability plans” may include run to failure, FMEA and RCM analysis, Root Cause Analysis, calendar and run time based preventive maintenance and condition based monitoring approaches (vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasonic analysis and inspection routines). The incumbent is responsible for updating the criticality ranking of the assets under their care, using results from reporting and analysis, PM/Calibration activities and other sources. The incumbent will provide reliability maintenance input to project engineering design and equipment selection, provide input to capital project design with respect to equipment selection and specifications that create project approaches with minimize life cycle costs, develop procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects of existing and new equipment. The incumbent will provide input and oversight to equipment standards, provide technical assistance to plant personnel to remedy breakdowns and improve safety or operator efficiency. The incumbent will generate change control documentation as required by maintenance or reliability activities.

Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Engineering, preferably in Mechanical Engineering, 5-7 years of maintenance experience, preferably in the Pharmaceutical (FDA regulated)/Chemical industry, project management experience and/or equipment reliability principles knowledge, technical knowledge of manufacturing equipment, equipment reliability principles, mechanical integrity and NDT disciplines knowledge preferred, advance computer use skills, knowledge of CMMS, Reliability and NDT software tools preferred, commitment to values-based leadership and achieving objectives in a manner that is supportive of the Company’s values and leader behaviors. Technical capabilities and understanding of maintenance work processes and the interfaces with other functional groups, good communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels of organization, proficiency with Microsoft Applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), use of appropriate PPE is required.

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