Equipment Reliability Engineer

AIT is the world's largest provider of automation, factory integration and tooling solutions dedicated to the global aerospace, defense, and space launch vehicle industries.

AIT offers a competitive compensation package (including free medical options for employees and their family), casual work environment and excellent growth opportunities.


Summary:
The Equipment Reliability Engineer is responsible for identifying and managing reliability and maintainability of all A220 Final Assembly Line assets at Airbus Assembly Plant in Mobile, Alabama.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Identifies and manages asset reliability risks that could adversely affect A220 Final Assembly Line assets or business operations through fault elimination, risk management, life cycle management and performance monitoring.
• Performs FMEA on critical equipment components, evaluates spare parts requirements, works with the customer to ensure proper levels of safety stock is in place to minimize the risk of excessive downtime.
• Performs Root Cause Analysis of the equipment failures, creates corrective action plans, updates maintenance plan to improve equipment uptime.
• Keeps track of the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), which include, but are not limited to
a. Equipment Availability
b. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
c. MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)
• Performs analysis of the above KPIs and identifies improvement opportunities.
• Reports KPIs, communicates opportunities and improvement plans to the customer.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the existing maintenance procedures and frequencies, makes recommendations for improvement, and implements them using internal resources.
• Leads the team of maintenance personnel, identifies training needs and performs or organizes training.
• Ensures that maintenance procedures and processes are in compliance with all applicable safety, health and environmental regulations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A or B.S) or two-year technical degree required.
• Five years of related experience and/or training in an equivalent position.
• Aerospace Automated Assembly Systems, Automotive BIW, Chassis/Glass, Special Welding, etc.
• Experience working with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).
• Six Sigma / Lean Manufacturing experience is a plus.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements:
• N/A

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.
• Performs routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and/or measuring devices.
• Behaves consistently and predictably; is reliable, responsible and dependable in fulfilling obligations and diligently follows through on commitments and consistently meets deadlines.
• Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
• Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
• Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.
• Knowledge of computer applications including email, databases, word-processing program and spreadsheets (such as Microsoft Office).
• Respond and follow up to a customer’s inquiry or problem in a timely and effective manner.
• Identifies problems and review relevant information to develop options, then implement the solutions.
• Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.

Work Conditions:
Environment Type:
• Indoors. Production and office environment. Temperature controlled, unless products and/or equipment is located outdoors.
Exposure Types:
• Cuts and/or burns
• Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil
• Noisy environment
Work Hours:
• Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines, required travel, and emergent conditions.
Travel Requirements:
• Remote - perform job responsibilities from customer work sites.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds.
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long dist