Reliability Manager

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Position Brand Description: 

The Reliability Manager leads and champions reliability engineering at the Elanco Speke site.

This role blends leadership responsibilities (managing a team including a Reliability Technician(s) with individual contributions to developing and implementing strategies that maximize equipment uptime and reliability.

You will analyze equipment performance, troubleshoot failures, implement preventative solutions, and drive the site-wide reliability roadmap.

Collaboration with maintenance, operations, and engineering teams is crucial, as is ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Additionally, the manager partners to influence and implement improvements across functional disciplines to ensure that the site achieves all business plan objectives and remains compliant with all regulatory requirements.  

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

1.

Reliability Vision: Engage site leaders in establishing a forward-looking Reliability Vision that anticipates future growth and ensures continued support for key programs.

2.

Reliability Roadmap: Develop and implement a Speke-specific reliability roadmap utilizing Elanco's Maintenance and Reliability (M&R) Best Practices.

This roadmap will incorporate key reliability engineering principles to optimize equipment maintenance strategies to minimize downtime.

3.

Improve Equipment Reliability and Availability.

Implement and maintain key reliability programs, leveraging the following principles:


* Equipment Criticality Assessment: Prioritize equipment based on criticality to operations.


* Asset Strategy Improvement (ASI) / Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA): Proactively identify and mitigate potential failure modes.


* Root-Cause-Failure Analysis (RCFA): Determine the root causes of equipment failures and implement corrective actions.


* Mechanical Integrity: Ensure compliance with PSM/COMAH requirements, utilizing reliability principles to prevent failures.


* Predictive/Preventive/Condition-Based Maintenance (PdM/CBM): Implement strategi...