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Carthage, Missouri, United States
Onsite
Available
The Reliability Engineer's main goal is to boost the reliability, availability, and performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities, ensuring smooth operations, cutting downtime, and boosting efficiency and profits. They proactively pinpoint potential failures or weaknesses and create strategies to prevent or lessen these issues. The reliability engineer assures safety standards and regulatory compliance, including adherence to SQF (Safe Quality Food) requirements.
What you’ll do:
• Asset Optimization: Optimizes the performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities by identifying opportunities for improvement in reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Data Analysis: Evaluates data from equipment sensors, maintenance records, and other sources to identify trends and patterns that may indicate potential reliability issues or opportunities for improvement. Uses advanced statistics and engineering mathematics for analysis.
• Failure & Root Cause: Investigates the root causes of failures to understand why they happened and how they can be prevented in the future.
• Asset Care Strategy: Develops and improves proactive, predictive, and preventive maintenance and tool strategy to ensure that equipment is properly maintained and serviced to prevent unplanned downtime and equipment failures.
• Risk Assessment: Assesses potential risks associated with equipment failures and develop strategies to mitigate these risks, such as implementing redundancy measures or upgrading critical equipment.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with and works closely with cross-functional teams, including maintenance, operations, engineering, Environmental Health Safety, and quality assurance, to ensure alignment on reliability goals and initiatives.
• Lifecycle Management: Develops strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets, including asset replacement, upgrades, and decommissioning, to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness over time.
• Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.
What you need to succeed:
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• Entry Level: 0-3 years experience in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma)
• Intermediate Level: 3-10 years experience in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma)
• Advanced Level: 10+ years experience in Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance Leadership, Manufacturing or Project (Cap-EX included) Engineering, Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma)
• Experience in Data Analytics, Vibration Monitoring, Tribology, Manufacturing/Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, proven record of asset performance improvement
• Understanding of World-class Reliability and Maintenance concepts, metrics, Statistics, Project Management, Data Analytics, Engineering Principles, ISO Standards, Manufacturing, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Planning & Scheduling, Proactive and Predictive Maintenance.
• Skills regarding failure detection and care of electronics, PLCs, robotics, boilers & refrigeration equipment, and infrastructure.
• Ability to travel up to 10-15% quarterly to other Schreiber locations, suppliers/vendors
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Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601.
For positions that require any amount of travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.
Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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