Reliability Engineer - Burlington, ON LL W

Position Summary · Reporting to the Senior Manager, Maintenance & Reliability the Reliability Engineer is responsible for leading efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, controls, and utility systems. Identify and manage asset reliability risks ...

Job description

Position Summary

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Maintenance & Reliability the Reliability Engineer is responsible for leading efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, controls, and utility systems. Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations and performance. This broad primary role includes loss elimination, risk management, solving complex equipment problems and life cycle asset management.

Key Accountabilities:

• Apply a variety of prescribed practices to identify and manage Asset Reliability risks that could cause stoppages and adversely affect plant or business operations;
• Leads and directs Equipment Criticality Assessments, Critical Spares Analyses, and Failure Root Cause Analyses;
• Leads and directs 'Fact Based' and 'Data Driven' decision making through the effective utilization of:
• FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis);
• RAM (Reliability Asset Management) Analysis;
• RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance);
• LCAM (Life Cycle Asset Management); and
• TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) methodologies and tools.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an asset Maintenance Plan that includes:
• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks;
• Time-base maintenance plans;
• Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies (UE analysis, Vibration Analysis, Oil Analysis, Thermo-graphic testing, etc.).
• Develops solutions to repetitive failures that adversely affect plant operations, by applying:
• Statistical process control;
• Six Sigma (6σ) methodologies;
• Root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies.
• Work with engineering and maintenance to make recommendations for major repair plans for equipment and machinery;
• Champion for driving standardization and best practices across plant sites;
• Conduct lifecycle costing (LCC) analyses on new, problematic and aging assets, to repair/replace, repair/design and make/buy decisions;
• Review and approve new equipment design, lead FAT process, oversee and manage commissioning process;
• Provide technical support, guidance and validation for all new PM/PdM tasks;
• Establish reliability & work planning metrics/KPI's to monitor performance & improvement PM/CM ratio, MTBF, MTTR, etc.;
• Generate Bad Actor Report/Analysis;
• Lead process design changes to improve burden, priority system to reduce ergonomic concerns;
• Oversee breakdown management system, including troubleshooting, reporting/analysis, recurrence prevention.

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years engineering experience preferably in a fast-paced food-manufacturing environment;
• Engineering Degree or Engineering Technologist Diploma (mechanical / industrial / electrical);
• Maintenance Management Professional certification would be an asset;
• Minimum of 2 years experience in a reliability engineering role;
• Must have excellent computer knowledge, proficient in MS Office/AutoCAD, solid to advanced spreadsheet skills combined with strong analytical and problem solving skills;
• Self-motivated and passionate individual, who has a high sense of urgency, thrives with a wide variety of work and can deliver consistent results on multiple priorities;
• Lean manufacturing experience is an asset.

Hiring Range: CAD $64,393 - $92,082

Bonus: This position is eligible for a bonus up to 8% of base salary subject to the plan terms and conditions.

Please note that the expected hiring range provided is derived from a group of like roles within Sofina. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, skillset of the candidate and internal equity.

This position is currently an active vacancy.

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Sofina Foods Inc. is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act ('AODA'). Applicants are asked to make their needs/requirements, for the purpose of accommodation under AODA, known to Human Resources when they are contacted for an interview.