Reliability Engineer

Position Summary:

The primary purpose of this position will be to track the production losses, downtime, scrap, and maintenance cost, then find ways to reduce those losses or high costs. These losses are prioritized to focus efforts on the largest/most critical opportunities then works to develop a plan to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities: • Provide day to day support, monitoring, troubleshooting and improvement of uptime of all equipment and processes.• Tracks equipment/process repair history and ensures quality data analysis for adjustment of the maintenance/production and improvement strategies OEE/OA for all processes.• Supports capital projects, including scope and basic data development, project design reviews, and equipment start up.• Works with multi-discipline systems, programs, and teams to improve processes based on business input (yield, uptime, capacity release, cost performance)• Provides technical input or guides root cause analysis for equipment and processes related to performance, reliability, and quality investigations• Reviews, revises, and creates procedures, change point management, and other technical documentation as needed.• Communicates effectively at all levels and across sites and functions

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills required.• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, and processes.• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.• Overall Equipment Effectiveness• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.• Data analysis techniques that can include:• Statistical Process Control• Reliability modeling and prediction• Fault Tree Analysis• Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis• Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel).• Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience:• B.S. in Engineering and 5 years of hands-on, verifiable experience in an automotive manufacturing environment.