Reliability Engineer

At Elanco (NYCE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

The purpose of this position is to provide technical expertise and ownership of the maintenance program that results in equipment reliability needed to support current and future production objectives. This position will be responsible for the technical aspects of the maintenance program.  This individual will work closely with all levels of operations, maintenance, engineering and quality to identify critical equipment, prioritize critical equipment, analyze critical equipment using established methodologies, develop sound maintenance plans using established predictive and preventive maintenance techniques, reliability and maintainability metrics to solve equipment reliability and maintenance problems, lower the potential of critical equipment failures, and maintain an expertise on the current technology available for reliability improvements of the equipment and practices.   The engineer may be required to perform unique component and system analyses to identify reliability improvements and risk reduction improvements through design modifications and/or various reliability improvement strategies.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:


* Provide support to equipment owner/user to complete CMMS data entry forms.


* Define boundaries for equipment lists and put equipment list into logical groupings.


* Determine critical business factors, including those for mechanical integrity, and rank the criticality of equipment.


* Develop appropriate (maintenance) plans based on Mechanical Integrity Maintenance Standards.


* Perform data queries to retrieve equipment history to determine the proper level of RCFA detail on recurrent equipment failures/downtime.


* Use Equipment Criticality ranking, Process Safety Management, Mechanical Integrity, CMMS data, and other Operational and Maintenance information as input to creating an FMEA—either in an individual or team setting.


* Determine equipment functionality, failure modes, failure effects.  Determine likelihood of failure modes.  Utilize FMEA to prolong equipment functioning by matchi...