Equipment and Reliability Engineering Manager

Equipment and Reliability Engineering Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an ABET accredited course of study (STEM); I.e., Mechanical Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in leading or managing a cross-functional teams in the art of Reliability Engineering or a combination of Reliability, Electrical Controls, Robotics and Automation
• 5+ years of experience in interacting with customers, at all levels, on a one-on-one basis and in group settings.

Responsibilities

• Always leads with safety in the forefront; identifies opportunities to drive a culture of safety and implements safe solutions at all levels.
• Identifies and develops Best Practices focusing on safety and housekeeping processes that can be applied broadly with the goal of maintaining safe equipment operating conditions and reducing repair and avoidable cost (MTBF/MTTR)
• Work with SMEs to develop action plans and playbooks to ensure proper equipment utilization and up time is maintained.
• Establishes communication, develops escalation procedures and contingency plans to negate periods of operational impact related to operational issues.
• Develop training for engineering and maintenance teams based on customer & leadership expectations.
• Conduct Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) focused on asset maintainability and operational preparedness.
• Participate in regular meetings with customers and stakeholders, various sites MBUs, and OEMs to seek feedback and provide updates to Leadership.
• Develops and implements reliability solutions that are integrated into departmental plans to ensure business, technical and customer requirements are achieved.
• Forecasts, obtains, and manages personnel, facilities, services, equipment, and tools to meet project and departmental requirements.
• Coaches, counsels, mentors, and provides developmental opportunities and job assignments to enhance employee performance and expand capabilities of direct reports and others within their department.
• Provides on-going developmental feedback while promoting employee recognition.
• Contributes to building a departmental culture that improves employee satisfaction and retains a skilled and motivated workforce.
• Provides input on the development of departmental business and technical strategies, goals, objectives, and related metrics to ensure alignment with company vision/strategy.
• Establishes partnerships and relationships with internal and external customers, stakeholders, peers, and direct reports.
• Builds strategic cross-functional and cross-organizational partnerships to resolve problems, improve processes or achieve goals.
• Creates a culture of continuous improvement by communicating/deploying enterprise best practices and employee engagement to improve cost, quality, delivery, employee job satisfaction and customer satisfaction.
• Experience working within a fast-paced team environment which required strong communication skills to frequently interact with program leadership, internal and external customer representatives and development teams.
• This position manages resources on multiple shifts (1,2,3).

Preferred Qualifications

• Aerospace, Fabrication, or Manufacturing Experience
• Equipment Reliability Engineering: (5+ years of experience) Electrical Controls, Robotics, Automation, Ultrasound, Thermography, Vibration Analysis, Tribology, Condition Based Maintenance, RCCA, MTTR, MTBF Analysis, LEAN Standard Work
• Facilities equipment and tooling experience
• Asset Life-Cycle management experience
• Asset Obsolescence Analysis/Strategy
• Thorough understand of electro-mechanical systems to include: Electrical Controls, Power Transmission, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Vacuum, process hold down & particulate capture, Building infrastructure as it relates to process; all utilities
• Metrology Inspection and Measurement; Production Assets and Tooling Experience and driving machine performance standards and calibrations.
• CMRP or CRL Certification preferred.