Senior Specialist, Maintenance/Reliability Engineer II

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The Senior Specialist, Maintenance / Reliability Engineer II executes the systems and asset lifecycle strategy, to ensure high reliability of assets, minimizing downtime and maximizing production capabilities

Key Responsibilities :

Responsible and accountable for job plans used for execution of maintenance in a bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, ensuring plans are complete, accurate, and able to be executed safely.

Support the creation and modification of documentation to support maintenance activities (Maximo Job Plans, Data Sheets, Work Instructions).

Work with maintenance and EHS teams to develop / revise Area Hazard Assessment (AHA) and own Lock out Tag out (LOTO) documentation for PM.

Update both as needed as a result of changes or continuous improvement.

Understands elements of operational excellence with regard to Maintenance execution, including participation in cost benefit analysis, review and / or creation of metrics and KPI related to maintenance execution.

This may also include working with project engineering to support development of small capital projects to support changes to equipment configuration to support configuration.

Understands spare parts needed for routine maintenance, and ensures spare parts are available for run to failure equipment.

Identify spare parts requirements and critical spare parts. Support MRO Storeroom in establishing stock levels and strategy.

For new equipment introduction, works with System Owner, Functional User, and project as needed to develop necessary training for maintenance technicians, and to develop new maintenance strategy and job plans.

This includes that appropriate materials, parts, tools and skill sets are available to accomplish the work safely.

Support training of maintenance staff on Techniques, new practices and technologies. This may include review and approval of documents such as work instructions, procedures, and training guidelines used to support work execution and technician training.

Ensure program meets necessary compliance requirements. This may include providing evaluation of the Maintenance Program against impacting policies and regulations, support of compliance investigations, CAPA, and change control impact assessments and support of health authority or internal audits.

Ensure compliance with EHS guidelines, cGMP regulations, Company policies and other external agency regulations. Support the development of related procedures and programs to ensure compliance.

Works closely with Planning and Scheduling to develop standards for major maintenance overhauls and outages, specifically for Shutdown periods.

Improve current, systems, practices, policies, and procedures pertaining to maintenance & operations activities to enhance the performance of the business and establish a continuous improvement philosophy for reliability.

Support new designs and modifications incorporate reliability, availability, maintainability, operability, safety, and life cycle costing reviews and participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning & qualification plans.

Establish equipment criticality ranking and apply appropriate maintenance philosophies to develop a robust systems lifecycle strategy.

Monitor and analyze system failures to increase reliability and reduce life cycle costs.

Support development and generation key performance indicators to monitor and optimize systems lifecycle.

Participate in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) exercises, leading a departmental cross-functional team.

Support in development of the site’s asset investment plan (State of Good Repair), to ensure continuing high equipment reliability while maintaining lowest overall maintenance costs.

Support compliance efforts related to Quality Events, CAPA, change management and contamination investigations.

Qualifications & Experience :

B.S. in Engineering (Reliability or Mechanical preferred) with 2 years plus (or equivalent) experience in maintenance and reliability of equipment in the manufacturing industry

Knowledge of scheduling and planning highly desired

Effective verbal and written communication skills with technical writing skills

The role requires an established history of successful participation on diverse work teams where combined contribution, collaboration and results were expected.

Strong computer skills and be proficient in the following programs : Maximo, Word, Excel, Visio, and Project.

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