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 :