Job Description

This position is responsible for identifying and managing asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. Position must guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, safety and process safety systems. Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. This broad primary role includes loss elimination, risk management, life cycle asset management, and capital project management.

What you will do:

These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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
• 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:
  • Statistical process control
  • Reliability modeling and prediction
  • Fault tree analysis
  • Six Sigma methodology
  • Data analysis techniques that can include:
  • Root cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
• Works with project and area engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. The reliability engineering manager 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. Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Participates in the final check-out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Works with Production to perform analyses of assets including:
  • Asset utilization
  • Overall equipment effectiveness
  • Remaining useful life
  • Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets
• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the General Manager.

What you need to be successful:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of training and experience
• 8 or more years of relevant maintenance and/or reliability experience in fixed plant equipment
• Experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment (forest products industry preferred)
• Experience in project management
• Managerial/Supervisory experience
• Advanced computer skills including MS Office software
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection (i.e. vibration analysis, oil monitoring, thermography) qw as well as the software associated with them
• Strong mechanical and electrical knowledge and aptitude
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

What will make you stand out:   

• Experience in relevant areas of CMMS
• Knowledge of Mill processes and equipment.
• Good oral and written communication skills and good team building skills.
• Have a strong fundamental understanding of mechanical, hydraulic, and circulating systems operation, contamination control and maintenance functions.
• Demonstrated initiative and strong work habits.
• Proven ability to organize, plan and establish a routine of activities to ensure principal accountabilities are met.
• Proactive, questioning, ‘get-it-done’ attitude
• Basic understanding of maintenance activities and equipment.

Outstanding benefits package including:

• Benefits starting Day 1
• Competitive starting pay
• On-the-job training
• A culture that strongly believes in promoting from within
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K with company match and additional retirement contribution
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Paid vacations and holidays

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