Reliability Engineer

Job Category:

Engineering

Job Family:

Operations Engineering

Job Description:

The Reliability Engineer's main goal is to boost the reliability, availability, and performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities, ensuring smooth operations, cutting downtime, and boosting efficiency and profits.

They proactively pinpoint potential failures or weaknesses and create strategies to prevent or lessen these issues.

The reliability engineer assures safety standards and regulatory compliance, including adherence to SQF (Safe Quality Food) requirements.

This position is located at our plant in Smithfield, Utah.

What you’ll do:

• Asset Optimization: Optimizes the performance of manufacturing equipment and facilities by identifying opportunities for improvement in reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Data Analysis: Evaluates data from equipment sensors, maintenance records, and other sources to identify trends and patterns that may indicate potential reliability issues or opportunities for improvement.

Uses advanced statistics and engineering mathematics for analysis.
• Failure & Root Cause: Investigates the root causes of failures to understand why they happened and how they can be prevented in the future.
• Asset Care Strategy: Develops and improves proactive, predictive, and preventive maintenance and tool strategy to ensure that equipment is properly maintained and serviced to prevent unplanned downtime and equipment failures.
• Risk Assessment: Assesses potential risks associated with equipment failures and develop strategies to mitigate these risks, such as implementing redundancy measures or upgrading critical equipment.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with and works closely with cross-functional teams, including maintenance, operations, engineering, Environmental Health Safety, and quality assurance, to ensure alignment on reliability goals and initiatives.
• Lifecycle Management: Develops strategies for managing the lifecycle of manufacturing assets, including asset replacement, upgrades, and decommissioning, to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness over time.
• Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.

Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.

Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.

Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering or related field.

Master’s degree preferred.
• Licenses/Certifications in Maintenance, Reliability, Tribology, Lubrication, and other specialized areas are a plus.
• Entry Level: 0-3 years experience in Reliability Eng...