Senior Reliability Engineer

• Be a role model and champion for an injury-free work place
• Improve maintenance work efficiency by applying Precision Maintenance Techniques.
• Support the Mechanical Area Maintenance Front Line Leaders and Planners during the planning and execution phases of PMOs and annual outages.
• Develop solutions to chronic repetitive failures by analyzing data. Be the owner of the area chronic reliability list and lead efforts to provide priority resolutions to these issues.
• Support and provide expertise for repair jobs and capital projects.
• Owns maintenance strategy. Reliability Engineers are responsible for defining, developing, administering, and refining the equipment care programs.
• Predictive Maintenance: develop routes, ensure communication between core team and technician.
• Preventative Maintenance: support development of mechanical PM’s for each area; develop routes and manage the program and communication with the core teams.
• Support Core teams: help resolve technical issues or repair procedures as required; work closely with maintenance FLL’s as needed; MWS Team participation.
• RCFA Facilitation; champion use of RCFA for the area. Does not lead all RCFA, but ensures engagement of workforce, proper root causes identified, and action items are completed.
• MWS Work participation; participate in prioritizing Area work orders, ensure Indirect Work Order/Mgmt. of Change identified as requires; ensure proper preventative maintenance shutdown work is completed; annual outage work
• Provide input to area maintenance budgets for major maintenance items and optimizations
• Develop long term maintenance plan for rotating equipment, rebuilds and major maintenance
• Provide contractor work management and coordination for routine and major shutdown jobs per mill standards using best engineering practices

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 5+ experience
• Non-degreed candidates with significant experience in a related function will also be considered
• Pulp/paper mill experience is preferred
• Extensive knowledge of rotating equipment, pressure vessels, piping systems, and atmospheric storage tanks
• Use of precision measurement tools and assembly techniques
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, organizational and planning skills, facilitations skills, computer skills and the ability to achieve results through others
• Proven safety record (individual performance and leadership)
• Substantial knowledge of and experience maintaining rotating equipment including pumps & gearboxes, welding & cutting metals, heavy rigging, pipefitting, and repair/troubleshooting of hydraulic systems required.
• Strong problem solving / decision making skills and experience on production equipment
• Strong technical background. Ability to manage and lead multiple projects.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and SAP PM Applications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Must have good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact at all levels
• Strong leadership skills
• Must be flexible and available with their schedule to meet Mill needs as they arise

• Drive for results
• Interpersonal skills
• Technical & functional skills
• Planning
• Organizing

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