Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Position Title: 

Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer 

Pay Rate: 

$93,400 - $124,500

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Category/Shift: 

Salaried Full-Time Exempt

Physical Location: 

Pine Hill Mill (Pine Hill, AL)

The Job You Will Perform (including but not limited to):

• Safety Leadership: Leads Safety in all aspects of the RE Role.  

• Equipment Reliability Strategy as follows: 

  • Criticalities Assessment Owner: Understand equipment criticalities and maintain for area.

  • Owns the maintenance strategy for His/Her area; REs are responsible for defining, developing, and administering the equipment care programs.

  • Predictive Maintenance: Understand PdM principles and tools and how to apply each to ensure assets are properly maintained. The Reliability Engineer champions efforts in the MWS meetings to drive timely resolution of deficiencies identified through PdM efforts.    

  • Preventative Maintenance: Lead development of critical mechanical PMs for the area; work with mechanics, planners, FLL and APM to develop and/or refine PM Routes.

  • Lubrication program: Understand key principles for precision lubrication and filtration for industrial equipment to support his/her area to meet very high standards. 

  • Champion Asset Class Management in area – Establish cradle to grave strategy for critical equipment types and work towards improvements to extend equipment life.

• Failure Elimination (Preventable Chronic Failures) The area RE leads efforts around identifying and resolving chronic failures in His/Her area. 

• RCFA Facilitation: Reliability Engineers Champion proper use of the RCFA process in their respective area to ensure Proper Root Causes “Physical, Human and Latent” are identified and corrective actions developed to eliminate the failure from reoccurring.  

• MWS: Participate in area meetings to help prioritize work orders and support critical job planning as needed.  The RE ensures the MOC (Management of Change process is followed)

• Support Core teams: Help resolve technical issues or repair procedures as required; coach maintenance First Line Leaders, Planners, Hourly Craftsmen, Contractors and REACH Engineers as needed

• GMS (Global Manufacturing System) Support and Lead Reliability GMS efforts in area.    

• Facility Plan: Develop and Maintain Five-year repair plan for critical equipment in area.

• Participate in Capital Plan development.

• Support cost savings goals.  Identify opportunities and drive cost savings in area. 

The Skills You Will Bring: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

• 5+ years experience at Pulp & Paper facility; Maintenance is a plus

• Good process knowledge, equipment familiarity

• Utilities and Boiler Maintenance Experience is desirable

• Ability to manage and lead multiple projects

• Proficient with Microsoft Office and Project, SAP PM Applications

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Must have good interpersonal skills with ability to interact at all levels