Plant Reliability Engineer: Drive Uptime & Efficiency

Ellaway Blues Consulting; Port Arthur (TX); Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Ellaway Blues Consulting is seeking a Maintenance & Reliability Engineer to lead the plant’s maintenance and reliability program. You will develop strategies, set criticality, and drive PM optimization to increase equipment reliability and reduce downtime.

The role emphasizes root-cause analysis, condition-monitoring, and collaboration with maintenance teams to improve work orders, procedures, and lifecycle cost management, in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 3–10 years of experience in maintenance, reliability, or mechanical engineering in an industrial process or manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of mechanical and rotating equipment, pumps, motors, gearboxes, piping, and associated industrial systems.
• Experience with preventive/predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, equipment criticality, and reliability improvement.
• Understanding of mechanical integrity, equipment inspection, degradation mechanisms, and asset lifecycle management.
• Experience using CMMS data, maintenance history, and KPIs to identify improvement opportunities and reduce maintenance costs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience with condition-monitoring technologies and reliability-centered maintenance principles preferred.

Aufgaben

• Develop and own the plant’s maintenance and reliability strategy and annual improvement plan.
• Establish equipment criticality and prioritize reliability efforts based on safety, environmental, production, and business risk.
• Develop and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, including PM optimization (PM Scrub).
• Identify bad actors and chronic equipment failures and develop reliability improvement plans with tracked corrective actions (red to green).
• Lead root-cause analysis and failure investigations for significant equipment failures and recurring issues.
• Establish condition-monitoring programs based on equipment criticality and identified failure mechanisms.
• Partner with Maintenance to improve work-order quality, maintenance procedures, and maintenance strategy effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to reduce maintenance costs through optimized maintenance strategies, elimination of unnecessary activities, reduced repeat failures, and improved lifecycle cost management.
• Establish and maintain maintenance and reliability KPIs to measure performance and drive continuous improvement.

Kenntnisse

CMMS data

Root-cause analysis

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CMMS

Jobbeschreibung

Ellaway Blues Consulting is seeking a Maintenance & Reliability Engineer to lead the plant’s maintenance and reliability program. You will develop strategies, set criticality, and drive PM optimization to increase equipment reliability and reduce downtime.

The role emphasizes root-cause analysis, condition-monitoring, and collaboration with maintenance teams to improve work orders, procedures, and lifecycle cost management, in a manufacturing setting.