Reliability Engineer

Job Overview

A Reliability Engineer plays a key role in the lifecycle of a GLC product and processing. This position will oversee the assessment and management of the reliability of operations that could impact a product or business. This helps test current processes and highlight any failures or issues. This usually relates to manufacturing or engineering businesses that need to ensure their processes and equipment can reliably deliver the results required.

Job Responsibilities

• Works with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers..
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes:
• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
• Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility the Reliability Engineer applies:
• Data analysis techniques that can include:
• Statistical Process Control
• Reliability modeling and prediction
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA)
• Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Works with Production to perform analyses of assets
• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution. 
• Minimum of 3 years or more of direct engineering experience.  
• Must be legally authorized to work for a company in the U.S. without sponsorship. 

Preferred Education and Experience

• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Knowledge of food packaging, preferably cheese or meat. 
• Ability to communicate with packaging material suppliers, packaging equipment manufacturers, and co-packers.
• Food/dairy industry. 
• SAP experience.
• MES experience.
• OSHA 10hr Safety Certification

Working Conditions

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