What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability & Maintenance Engineer position at Albemarle Corporation?
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Job Description
Background:
At Albemarle, we've built a thriving international business by envisioning a limitless future and putting innovation to work to improve people's lives. That's our culture. That's our commitment. And when you join our team, it's an opportunity you share with talented men and women around the globe. Anyone can give you a job. At Albemarle, we believe you deserve more. Something big enough to build a future. Big enough to change the world.
Position Summary:
The Reliability & Maintenance Engineer is responsible for providing the technical program leadership and implementation activities to maximize the maintenance-related uptime and operating efficiencies of equipment and facility assets. This role will monitor the status of the Plant's reliability maintenance program evolution relative to corporate program strategies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide measurements of program progress and effectiveness such as preventive maintenance, condition-based monitoring work, equipment uptime, overall equipment effectiveness and mean time between failures.
- Implement reliability maintenance program improvements for the assets under their responsibility and facilitate the identification and communication of the root causes of losses in operation of production, facility and utility processes.
- Provide reliability maintenance input to Engineering Design to create designs which minimize life cycle costs.
- Develop procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects of existing and new equipment.
- Effectively size equipment and perform necessary calculations to ensure equipment safety devices are within spec.
- Operate hands-on, conducting evaluations to examine and determine equipment condition in the field while utilizing drawings, manufacture documentation, etc.
- Ability to review findings, form, and execute plans to ensure API standards and company policies are met.
- Support project team when new equipment is being purchased and/or older equipment modifications/ improvements are to be made as needed.
- Ability to effectively communicate between plant personnel to ensure there is alignment with operations and current projects.
- Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering degree.
- 6 years of experience in the Chemical industry.
- Experienced implementing safety/quality/productivity initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience successfully identifying areas of improvement and managing the associated change process.
- Ability to effectively plan and prioritize tasks and responsibilities as needed to meet established timelines and objectives.
- Demonstrated experience in effectively engaging teams, facilitating root cause analysis and driving actions to completion.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Intermediate skill level with MS Office Suite programs.
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