Balchem Corporation · 14 hours ago
Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer
Montvale, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $170K/yr
10+ years expBalchem Corporation is committed to making the world a healthier place by delivering innovative solutions for health and nutritional needs. The Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer will oversee Reliability and Maintenance programs across multiple plant locations, focusing on improving performance and ensuring the integrity of plant assets.
Food and BeverageNutrition
Responsibilities
The Sr. Regional Reliability Engineer will maintain and improve performance of the company’s physical assets and monitor maintenance labor and material costs to achieve plant performance goals
Drives improvement of maintenance and reliability performance/ work processes using KPIs
This position requires considerable interaction with plant leadership teams, engineering, corporate functional leadership, external support, and contractors
Perform monthly analysis, establish maintenance strategy and improvements proposals for bad actors to be eliminated and drive bad actors elimination by organizing and facilitating site RCPS workshops within the site maintenance team
Develops and implements the Reliability Strategy at the sites, including Asset Criticality Assessment, PM Strategy (inspection task list & frequency) and Spare Parts analysis, to support the directives for the plant and monitors reliability performance and increase
Monitors maintenance and reliability spend across the region including labor, parts, and equipment; identifies trends and leads gap correction efforts
Ensures the integrity and maintenance of all plant assets, including production equipment, facilities, utility equipment, and grounds
Ensure capture and analysis of maintenance data and equipment work histories to support work of the site Maintenance Reliability engineers
May, from time to time, coordinates scheduling of and supervises work activities of contractors performing API (Vessels, Tanks, Piping) / MI Inspections for the company; evaluates contractor work, sets expectations with contractor for safety performance, and ensures security of confidential information
Leads implementation of spare parts inventory program best practices and ensures sustainment of stock management discipline
Define the MI (Mechanical Integrity) Program for Inspection, Testing and Proactive Maintenance. A logical combination of proactive technologies, along with planned inspections (preventive tasks) consistent with current recognized and generally accepted good engineering practice (RAGAGEP)
Review and optimize asset criticality, equipment maintenance strategies preventive, predictive and non-interventive strategies, and emergent work protocols
Ensures proactive (preventive and predictive) work strategies (frequency, task lists and critical parts) are aligned with asset criticality analyses to ensure the most efficient and effective maintenance processes
Conducts and facilitates Root Cause Failure Analysis for significant or repeat equipment failures, including FMEA as needed, and implements the maintenance Strategy improvements to eliminate recurrence
Ensures best practice utilization of CMMS systems including preventive and predictive maintenance procedures, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the dataset and files
Implement the MI (Mechanical Integrity) Program at the Review and analyze data from inspections for information on equipment reliability issues on request of site maintenance engineers
Ensures best practice implementation and sustainment of workflow processes including but not limited to the effectiveness and efficiency of work request, work order creation, planning, kitting, scheduling, execution and work quality / closure
Analyzes CMMS data to improve equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs and ensures visibility of performance to site managers
Provides reliability and maintenance input on capital projects to guide project team on reliability and maintainability of the equipment. Provides input on the technical check out, equipment check out and commissioning of new assets. Ensures project related changes in equipment strategies and equipment specifications are updated in the CMMS database
Provides technical expertise for PSM (Process Safety Management) and MI (Mechanical Integrity) programs
Qualification
Required
10+ years in Maintenance and Reliability
Ability to build strategic relationships with key stakeholders across the operation to ensure improved collaboration and deliver results
Experience using CMMS and ERP software
Mechanical Integrity and Process Safety Management Programs
RCA and FMEA application experience
Benefits
Bonus eligible
Company
Balchem Corporation
Founded in 1967, Balchem is committed to making the world a healthier place by delivering trusted, innovative, and science-based solutions to the nutrition, health, and food markets.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1986-06-13IPO
Leadership Team
Michael R. Sestrick
Chief Technology Officer
Danielle Polanco, SHRM-CP, aPHR
HR Business Partner
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