Principal Mechanical Reliability/Maintenance Engineer

Job Title

Principal Mechanical Reliability/Maintenance Engineer

Requisition

JR000014311 Principal Mechanical Reliability/Maintenance Engineer (Open)

Location

St. Louis, MO

Additional Locations

Job Description Summary

Job Description

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Mechanical Reliability/Maintenance Engineer maximizes overall equipment effectiveness; by establishing reliability procedures, controls, and reporting systems, ensuring continuous improvement of all maintenance reliability processes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Support all safety programs and goals, including all OSHA standards

• Define/develop/refine and monitor predictive/preventive maintenance program/procedures

• Work with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified equipment

• Guide reliability decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing standards and procedures

• Optimize equipment effectiveness by establishing, monitoring, and managing reliability controls

• Monitor and confirm equipment reliability by conducting audits and tracking performance using KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)

• Ensure reliability of equipment by establishing predictive/preventive maintenance requirements and service contracts, identify critical assets and spare parts, evaluating new equipment and maintenance techniques

• Perform root cause analysis on all major process interruptions to eliminate/reduce reoccurrence, initiate corrective actions, and develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures

• Skilled in the use of Root Cause/Root Cause Failure Analysis, Failure Reporting/Analysis and Corrective Action System, Fault Tree Analysis

• Work with Production to perform analyses of assets including Asset Utilization, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Remaining Useful Life, and other parameters that define operating conditions, reliability, and costs of assets

• Develop and monitor a preventive maintenance optimization process to ensure continuous improvement

• Assist the Manager and Supervisors w/ Maintenance/Reliability Engineering functions as needed

• Provide technical support for weekend/off-shift coverage as needed

• Assist in Departmental metrics development and tracking

• Actively participate in general site and Departmental Safety and Quality initiatives, including assignment to a Departmental Safety Team if needed

• Update SOPs due to any changes made to equipment to improve product or production efficiency or flow

• Communicate with vendors on purchasing equipment, scheduling service work and obtaining technical information.

• Ability to read and comprehend advanced electrical/electronic schematics and mechanical drawings

REQUIREMENTS:

             

Education:

B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred or equivalent engineering discipline preferred

Experience:

Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in an Engineering role within a manufacturing facility,  experience in an FDA controlled industry is preferred, heavily focused on Predictive Maintenance Technology

Skills/Qualifications:

• Excellent analytical /problem-solving skills
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Follow safe working practices in the execution of assigned duties.
• Demonstrate initiative and ability to perform as part of a team.
• Interpersonal skills and abilities needed to effectively work with, interact with and direct others in Maintenance Department
• Ability to efficiently plan and coordinate events
• Basic computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Ability to work independently or with minimal instruction.

OPERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:  High degree of collaboration required on a regular on-going basis.  Must be able to establish effective working relationships with a broad range of internal and external personnel including engineers, operating and maintenance personnel, site and corporate leadership