Reliability Maintenance Engineer

Role Description

The Reliability Maintenance Engineer is responsible for providing the technical program leadership and implementation activities described below to maximize the maintenance related uptime and operating efficiencies of equipment and facility assets.
These activities help minimize costs and contribute to the profitability and performance of the business.

This position forms assignments designed to develop professional engineering work knowledge and abilities.
This requires application of standard techniques, procedures and criteria when carrying out a sequence of related engineering tasks.

The Reliability Maintenance Engineer monitors the status of their reliability maintenance program evolution relative to corporate program strategies.
They 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.

This position also implements reliability maintenance program improvements for the assets under their responsibility.
They facilitate the identification and communication of the root causes of losses in the operation of production, facility and utility processes.
The Reliability Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ranking the criticality of the assets under their care, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and for defining the proactive maintenance approaches that are cost beneficial to the business.

The Reliability Maintenance Engineer specifies parts, inventory quantities and the special storage requirements for critical spare parts.
They represent reliability maintenance to other organizations and functions including Engineering Design, Production Operations, Procurement, Storeroom operations, new project commissioning, etc.
They provide reliability maintenance input to Engineering Design to create designs which minimize life cycle costs.
Lastly, they develop procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects of existing and new equipment, and they help identify the work content of planned shutdowns.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES

• General
  • Promotes the use of Reliability Engineering concepts and tools to the Engineering and Production departments.
  • Communicates changes and updates resulting from PMO activities, Strategy and Continuous Improvement efforts, and Project implementation activities.
• Preventive Maintenance
  • Establishes guidelines and specifications (i.e.
    : Task, Frequency, Materials, Skill, Calibration parameters, etc.)
    for properly implementing equipment Preventive Maintenance and equipment health activities.
  • Administers and oversees the PM / Calibration Optimization Program.
    Provides technical assistance and expertise to other maintenance engineers' assigned optimization activities to ensure compliance to program requirements.
  • Develops, changes, and initiates maintenance activities (PM, CBM, lubrication, calibration, training, and spare parts) as based on analysis results (FMEA, FRACAS) to improve performance and equipment availability.
• Strategy and Continuous Improvement
  • Performs reliability analysis (FRACAS, FMEA) to identify root causes of equipment issues.
  • Updates the Maintenance Strategy and Reliability Ranking Index for equipment.
  • Develops equipment reliability plans that reduce the number of failures and minimizes the effects of failures that do occur.
  • Identifies chronic equipment deficiencies through "Bad Actor" analysis.
• Projects
  • Provides Life Cycle Cost Modeling and Statistical Analysis to Project Engineering for equipment design and selection.
  • Provides "Design for Reliability" input to capital projects with respect to equipment specifications that create project approaches which minimize life cycle costs.
• Equipment Standards
  • Provides input and oversight to equipment standards.
  • Develops procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects for existing and new equipment.
• Change Control
  • Generates change control documentation as required by reliability initiatives (i.e.
    FRACAS, FMEA, Improvement Projects, etc.
    )

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's level degree (Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering, preferred).
• Experience within a pharmaceutical environment preferred.
• Basic understanding of manufacturing and packaging equipment or utility systems (HVAC) and equipment.
• Knowledge of respective reliability techniques, practices, precedents, theory and principles.
• Experience with run to failure, clock and run time based preventive maintenance, condition monitoring approaches such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasonic analysis, and inspection routines including their content, and online alarm monitoring approaches is preferred.
• Good computer skills, knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office applications preferred.
• Good communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels of the Zoetis organization.

Full time

Regular

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