Reliability Engineer - Manufacturing Plant Maintenance

Arrow Specialties USA, LLC

Richmond, VA

Estimated pay: Est. $34–$41/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Shift: Full time

**Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - Manufacturing**

Position: **Full Time, Salaried, (Exempt role with annual bonus incentive)**

Schedule**: Days - With possible on call for troubleshooting**

Location: **Spruance Manufacturing Plant Site**

**5401 Jefferson Davis Highway,** **Richmond, Virginia 23234**

www.

ARCLIN.

com

As the Reliability Engineer, you turn reliability opportunities into measurable plant performance.

**The role**

The Reliability Engineer facilitates development of the site maintenance and reliability strategy and resolves reliability and availability losses through the application of reliability technologies, data and tools. The role focuses on opportunities affecting measured asset capability and high-risk items identified through risk assessments, reliability models and plant health studies. The engineer quantitatively evaluates Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (PPM) effectiveness, develops equipment reliability strategies and leads corrective actions that enable the plant to meet its business plan and customer commitments.

**What you will own**

RELIABILITY STRATEGY & PRIORITIZATION

• Facilitate development and implementation of the site maintenance and reliability strategy in alignment with Arclin business objectives.
• Create equipment reliability strategies using the Bad Actors List, Critical Equipment List, plant health findings and identified business needs.
• Develop and maintain models that identify unit operations, equipment and processes with the greatest value opportunity for improvement.
• Analyze asset utilization and cost data to develop and prioritize reliability opportunities.
• Evaluate and quantify how equipment reconfigurations, design changes, equipment quality and projects affect the plant’s ability to meet customer needs.

ROOT CAUSE & CORRECTIVE ACTION

• Facilitate and implement the site Root Cause Investigation process, including cause-and-effect methods where reliability opportunities or investigation triggers are met.
• Define reliability and availability assessment requirements, investigation scopes and measurable corrective actions.
• Evaluate and validate the impact of actions that affect availability and reliability, and leverage successful solutions across the site or business where appropriate.
• Participate in plant health studies and lead implementation of corrective actions that maintain or improve plant health.

PPM & RELIABILITY PROGRAMS

• Evaluate individual elements of the Preventive and Predictive Maintenance program by quantifying the impact of failures and PPM tasks.
• Facilitate proactive PPM optimization that improves reliability, productivity and maintenance effectiveness.
• Establish, improve and sustain condition-monitoring and predictive-maintenance programs, including required use of Emerson AMS, Lube-It and other approved reliability platforms.
• Apply Six Sigma tools and methodologies, process simplification, value engineering, maintenance strategy and reliability modeling to improve performance.
• Convert reliability-program findings into prioritized work orders, equipment strategies, corrective actions and measurable results.

LIFECYCLE VALUE, SPARES & NETWORKS

• Apply total cost of ownership and reliability engineering principles with discipline teams and technical networks to build reliability into purchasing requirements.
• Provide equipment reliability, vendor-performance and modification data to technical resource networks.
• Optimize spare-parts stocking levels with MRO and discipline resources using critical-spare, slow-moving and ABC-category principles.
• Participate in reliability network activities and share proven solutions across the organization.
• Support applicable Activity Coordination objectives and links to project and technology-implementation processes.

**What you bring to the role**

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent relevant experience required.
• Five+ years of maintenance or reliability experience required.
• Five years of Process Safety Management or high-hazard process experience required.
• Arclin line-of-business, process or site technology experience preferred.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & SYSTEMS

• Demonstrated experience using Emerson AMS for machinery health, asset monitoring, vibration analysis or predictive-maintenance workflows.
• Demonstrated experience using Lube-It or comparable lubrication-management software and lubrication reliability programs.
• Experience with other reliability programs and technologies, such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, ultrasound, infrared thermography and condition monitoring.
• Working knowledge of PPM data and maintenance information systems, including SAP or other CMMS.
• Knowledge of risk assessment, environmental impact analysis, reliability metrics, RCA triggers, economic evaluation and scope development.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, including statistical analysis