Reliability Engineer

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager the Reliability Engineer identifies and manages asset reliability risks that could adversely affect operation's ability to meet corporate and site objectives. This includes: lead continuous improvement, asset health and loss elimination initiatives, risk management and life cycle asset management.

The Reliability Engineer is an experienced Reliability Specialist with at least 5 years of experience in a reliability, operational excellence and/or continuous improvement role applying proven best practices in an industrial environment. A technical diploma is required, while an Engineering degree is preferred. The Reliability Engineer is familiar with using a CMM/EAM system and MS Office tools and with applying Standard Operating Procedures in his/her work. The Reliability Engineer follows company policies, standards and guidelines as they apply to all activities.

The Reliability Engineer has good leadership, communication, analytical skills, works well in a team environment, is responsible and is open to change. The person is results oriented and quality driven.

The Reliability Engineer promotes and maintains a safe working environment through compliance with MLF’s Health and Safety Program. This includes Food Safety and Environmental compliance

Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

• Develop solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.
• Involved in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets.
• Review and resolve Production losses and abnormally high Maintenance cost assets.
• Manage risk to the achievement of MLF’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, food quality and production.
• Lead efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Define, design, develop, monitor and refine maintenance strategies based on asset performance.
• Provide technical assistance to review equipment rebuilds and Supplier performance.
• Responsible for ranking the major physical assets in terms of criticality and risk to the organization.
• Provide input in the creation of corrective action plans.
• Review MTTR and MTBF results to identify and lead maintenance program/department improvements.
• Review plant history and other technical files to identify/resolve opportunities for improvement.
• Validate inputs into condition-based monitoring routes, load levels, and seed dates.
• Monitor the potential maintenance impact and/or opportunity of the production plan.
• Conduct LCC analyses on new, problematic and aging assets.
• Work with stores to identify the best part/material solution for the application.
• Incorporate continuous improvement feedback into the planning strategy.
• Provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work.
• Use work history when identifying asset reliability shortfalls.
• Apply the Bad Actor Report process to track significant issues.
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.
• Develop and manage the site's asset management strategy.
• Track, report an develop action plans to attain the asset management strategy's goals and objectives.
• Utilize the site’s 3 Year Plan in setting reliability improvement priorities.
• Identify knowledge gaps and future skill requirements.
• Research external references for current best practices and use to influence maintenance and reliability strategy.
• Work with Engineering to integrate CapEx project changes into the PMs.
• Develop and maintain a formal PM/PdM program for all key asset.
• Review 5% of the PM/PdM programs every quarter.
• Provide technical support, guidance and validation for all new PM/PdM tasks.
• Ensure that appropriate documents are updated when modifications occur.
• Following a modification apply a formal MOC process, which includes a review of existing maintenance strategies.
• Asset risk and criticality rankings are reviewed every 5 years and whenever there is a significant change to the process or equipment performance requirements.
• Risk ranking is used to identify candidate assets for improvements and when designing, commissioning a new asset.
• Conduct RCM, FMEA and RCFA analyses.
• Condition monitoring and predictive technologies are used to collect and analyze patterns in equipment behavior in order to determine the onset of failure and end of life.
• Involved in the selection of new assets and responsible for developing a life cycle management strategy throughout its useful life.
• Develop asset hierarchies, maintenance plans and critical components defined before the commissioning of assets.
• Use (RAM) modeling to estimate the expected Reliability, Availability and Maintainability of assets.
• Use LCC algorithm for deciding between maintain, overhaul or replacing assets.
• Include Sanitation, RAM Analysis, Maintenance Plans, Spare parts and Salvage Value in the maintenance cost components considered within the Lifecycle Cost Model.
• Manage the Failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS).
• Develop strategies to improve asset performance and reliability.
• Use the Value Driver Tree methodology to identify value drivers.
• Generate Bad Actor Report/Analysis.
• Manage non-conformance reporting and post-mortem with follow-up action logs.
• Participate in the Maintenance department’s continuous improvement and knowledge collection efforts
• Support the Maintenance department's participation in the formal and standardized intra-company knowledge sharing process
• Collect and track work identification KPIs related to the proactive maintenance program

What We Offer at Maple Leaf Foods:

• Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America.
• An inclusive company culture and a work environment that keeps our people safe, rewards excellence, and empowers everyone to learn and contribute their best.
• Competitive Health and Wellness benefits that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs, including programs focused on improving mental health and wellbeing. These benefits start on your first day of employment.
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
• Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, ‘speaker series’ events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career.
• Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program that supports continuous learning and development of our team members through investment in eligible degrees, diplomas, professional certification, or trades programs.
• Supporting our deep commitment to community impact, we offer up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice.