Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Reliability Engineer for our First Quality facility located in Macon, GA.

This position will be responsible for improving reliability of plant equipment and systems through preventive and reliability maintenance strategies.

Principal Accountabilities/ Responsibilities:

• Co-develop, implement, and drive adherence to site reliability program.
• Co-develop, implement, and refine machine component tracking and life cycle systems.
• Manage interface between reliability program and site CMMS.
• Manage entirety of plant vibration data collection and analysis and provide operational recommendations to the maintenance and production activity.
• Co-develop and implement a standardized monitoring program to include ultrasound, infrared, non-destructive inspections, and other predictive maintenance techniques throughout the facility as needed.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis and co-develop procedures and recommendations for permanent elimination of problems with the process, project, and maintenance activity.
• Observe and comply with all company mandated safety rules and PPE requirements. Notifies appropriate personnel of real or potential safety hazards or violations and takes immediate corrective action when necessary.
• Work with maintenance management to develop annual goals for continually improving maintenance reliability.
• Co-develop tools and techniques to analyze and improve preventive maintenance procedures.
• Co-develop improvements to the safety design of the equipment including but not limited to Lock out / Tag out.
• Participate in meetings including weekly planning and scheduling meetings and provide relevant reliability consultation to aid in setting shutdown schedules.
• Co-develop and implement standards-based repair procedures, documenting repairs, developing and implementing vendor standards.
• Collaborate with maintenance management and necessary vendors, OEM’s and training activities to improve the skills/practices of maintenance personnel and inspection routines.
• Collaborate with process and maintenance management to evaluate equipment performance and drive machine design improvements.
• Support and develop ongoing standards for CMMS.
• Share in Department On-Call Responsibilities.
• Attend all applicable training seminars provided by the Company.

Education and experience requirements:

• Advanced communication, planning and organizational skills.
• Established maintenance/technical background.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to direct others and work in a team environment.
• Good overall mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation aptitude.
• Ability to understand and reference maintenance documentation (blueprints, shop drawings, manuals, etc.)
• Solid working knowledge of personal computers and common office software. Ability to manage multiple projects and issues in a controlled manner and pull appropriate resources together to deal with unplanned setbacks.
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• B.S. in Engineering  required (Mechanical preferred) or equivalent experience in reliability engineering.
• 3 years of industrial maintenance experience preferred in a High-Speed Manufacturing Environment.
• 5 years of experience in vibration data collection and analysis (Cat I or greater) preferred
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