Reliability Engineer

First Quality was founded in 1989 and, in nearly three decades, has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees.

Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada.

First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world.

First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.

Our core business philosophy is built on a proud culture driven by safety and quality, respect, humility, integrity, customer focus, and teamwork.

With leading edge manufacturing technologies and processes and visionary leadership, First Quality is positioned to continue significant growth in the coming years.

We are looking for an experienced Reliability Engineer for our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in McElhattan, PA.

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

Primary responsibilities include :

• 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.
• Additional duties as required.

The ideal candidate should possess the following :

• 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.
• Familiarity with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems such as MP2, SAP, or EAM preferred.
• 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.

Excellent compensation and benefits, which are effective the first day of employment!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations.

As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.