Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Define the maintenance strategy for the new technologies within the Kinston Plant 
• Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Kinston Plant 
• Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
• Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
• Manage effective asset performance measurement.
• Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
• Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
• Develop and deploy the  maintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.

Main Activities

• Ensure ‘best in class’ safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.  
• Maintain  a ‘safety first’ culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a ‘champion for safety’.
• Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies. 
• Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
• Maintain  compliance with procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (FU.IN.07), Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape. 
• Support in developing, deploying and maintaining the Maintenance Plan for all assets in scope. 
• Lead  Total Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget. 
• Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
• Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
• Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
• Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
• Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability. 
• Project manage simple, low cost refurbishment projects.
• Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
• Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
• Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices. 
• Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability. 
• Maintain the standard of  Asset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
• Working with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services. 
• Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans. Lead technical problem solving and lessons learned activity. Embed and maintain a culture of structured root cause analysis to minimize the re-occurrence of breakdowns. 
• Deploy maintenance tools and methodologies to maximize reliability (e.g. Condition Based Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Autonomous Maintenance). 
• Be the champion for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Contribute actively to the overall management of the Industrial Maintenance business.

Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.