Reliability Engineer

Summary: Responsible for working with the maintenance team, engineering and plant managers to implement safe maintenance practices, increase equipment reliability and insure availability of critical spare parts. Identify opportunities to reduce cost and synergies between plants. Develop relationships with OEM's and equipment vendors. Responsible for the reliability and failure minimization of all equipment. Support UCC philosophy focused on facilitating the growth of the organization, continually improving quality, and driving to a world class safety environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determine best maintenance practices for specific pieces of equipment by collaborating with OEM's, suppliers and maintenance group.
• Evaluate the impact of projects such as equipment reconfigurations, design changes and equipment quality on the ability to meet customer needs.
• Supports maintenance activities and develops best practices and procedures for predictive maintenance
• Manage and maintain process control and IT interface systems for production equipment.
• Provides analysis and recommendations to improve MTBF (meantime between failures) and MTTR (Meantime to Repair).
• Develop and institutionalize diagnostic methods as necessary to improve reliability.
• Risk assessment and risk mitigation methodologies (FMECA, HAZOP, RCM ).
• Leads Equipment Criticality Assessments, Critical Spares Analyses.
• Apply problem solving methodology to find root causes and equipment failure and implement changes to eliminate repetitive failures.
• Travel to other Uniform Color and Audia facilities as required to support reliability needs.
• Follow UCC Quality System-approved work instructions and procedures and help improve these as needed.
• Responsible for successful facilitation of all company safety policies and procedures.

Preferred Experience, Training, and Skills:

• 8+ years of engineering experience in maintenance and reliability engineering in manufacturing environment
• Plastics processing knowledge is a plus
• Project management
• Statistical problem solving
• Can present and gain support for ideas and changes

Preferred Education: Mechanical, Chemical, or Plastics Engineering or related Engineering degree.