Reliability Engineer

U.S. Sugar; Clewiston (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Sugar is seeking a Reliability Engineer to improve asset reliability across sugar manufacturing assets. The role emphasizes eliminating repetitive failures, supporting maintenance, and managing preventive and predictive maintenance processes.

The candidate will advise production departments, lead RCA/RCFA studies, and implement Loss Elimination plans while collaborating cross-functionally to sustain optimal reliability, maintainability, and asset life.

Qualifications

• Requires Mechanical Engineering degree from an accredited institution.
• 10–20 years of related heavy manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as site SME for Reliability activities and lead maintenance strategy.
• Perform RCA/RCFA and develop Loss Elimination plans.
• Lead Pareto analyses of uptime losses using OEE data.
• Advise and train on SAP PM/CMMS usage and reliability data management.
• Develop PM optimization based on failure modes and historical data.
• Manage predictive maintenance programs (oil, vibration, thermography, etc.).
• Conduct FMEA and equipment criticality ranking sessions.

Skills

Pareto analysis

Root Cause Analysis

RCFA

OEE data use

SAP PM / CMMS

Predictive Maintenance

Vibration analysis

Maintenance optimization

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS

Job description

U.S. Sugar is one of the nation’s largest fully integrated producer of sugarcane, a leading provider of fresh vegetables and citrus products and a regional short line railroad operator. Headquartered in Clewiston, Florida the company farms more than 200,000 acres in Hendry, Glades, Martin and Palm Beach counties and employs approximately 3,000 people including many high skilled/wage jobs in automated environments. Produces 650,000 - 700,000 tons of cane sugar a year, providing nearly 8% of the nation’s sugar production. U.S. Sugar employs nearly 3,000 people including high skilled / high wage jobs in variety of automated environments.

ABOUT THE JOB:

The primary role of the Reliability Engineer is to improve asset/capacity reliability through the elimination of repetitive failures, technical support of the maintenance function and the management of appropriate Preventive and Predictive Maintenance processes.

Act as an advisor to the production departments, providing proactive leadership, direction, single point accountability and technical expertise required to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, and useful life for sugar manufacturing assets.

Essential Duties

• Act as a site Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Reliability activities.
• Perform Pareto analysis on uptime/production losses; monitor and evaluate asset bad actor lists from OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) reports.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA).
• Provide Loss Elimination plans from RCA’s, ensure the plan’s approval and facilitate its implementation.
• As an integral team member and in a hands-on manner, work closely with client departments to find, progress and implement solutions to improve equipment reliability.
• Perform studies on equipment failures and present solution(s) to management. Prepare diagrams, drawings, charts, calculations and reports for defining reliability problems and recommending solutions.
• Advise and provide training in and implement SAP PM Module (CMMS).
• Manage reliability data, work order failure code analysis, maintenance of the asset hierarchy, bills of materials, technical library, etc.
• Perform PM optimization: implement changes to equipment maintenance plans based on failure modes, historical data, reliability principles and best practices.
• Manage the results of Condition Monitoring Functions: manage and optimize Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Programs including systematically defining, developing, monitoring and refining the preventive/predictive maintenance process in pursuit of optimization.
• Ensure that Predictive Maintenance technologies (e.g., oil analysis, vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasonic, electric motor testing, etc.) are correctly applied on sugar manufacturing assets.
• Facilitate Equipment Criticality strategy formulation and ranking sessions.
• Conduct FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis).

A Mechanical Engineering Degree from an accredited institution is required. The preferred candidate will have 10 to 20 years of related experience in a heavy manufacturing environment, similar to ours – Sugar, Oil/Gas, Power Plant, Chemicals, Pulp/Paper, bulk food, etc.). A Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) with a very hands-on approach will be preferred.