Reliability Engineer - Major Outage

James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie® products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a high-performance organization, with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3,000 employees across operations in North America.
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This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a solid maintenance and reliability background to support improving James Hardie's production results. The person in this role will be responsible for supporting reliability improvements across our ten US locations with a special focus on Precision Maintenance.
The Reliability Engineer will report to the Director of HMOS-Equipment Reliability. Preference would be that the successful candidate for the position will primarily located at one of our western plants. Estimated amount of travel for this position is 50% per month.
What You'll Do:

• Provide technical expertise to sites with field application of precision maintenance techniques. Provide training, field coaching and mentoring of maintenance supervisors and craftsmen.
• Deliver a strategic reliability-centered maintenance approach to optimizing asset life and productivity through documented asset strategies.
• Develop and execute job plans for outage work and coordinate among several groups in the network including Central Engineering, Plant Operations, Plant Maintenance, Reliability, Maintenance Workflow Team, Finance, Logistics and Planning, major contractors, and major equipment suppliers and service providers.
• Research equipment history and develop replacement frequencies for critical assets.
• Lead non-routine maintenance projects and BAU capital projects. Partner with plant engineering managers and controllers of identifying project priorities in order to coordinate work during outages.
• Develop and implement best practices for assets to improve the mean time between failures (MTBF).
• Utilize Root Cause Analysis processes to review significant failures, identify corrective action to prevent re-occurrence and refine asset strategy to sustain improvement.
• Mine data to identify reliability improvement opportunities and develop corrective actions focused on delivering Net Hours improvement and cost reduction.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.
• Identifies deficiencies in maintenance processes and develop sustainable improvements.
• Provide reliability technical support to Production, Maintenance, Engineering and Procurement activities.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (mechanical, electrical or chemical)
• 5 or more years of experience with industrial manufacturing processes
• 5 or more years of project management skills
• Ability to utilize Microsoft project and other project management tools.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong technical expertise in applying Precision Maintenance techniques in industrial manufacturing processes. Strong knowledge of Precision Maintenance procedures.
• Knowledge of equipment design and failure modes. Experience with interpreting forensic evidence to identify failure modes.
• Facilitation experience with Root Cause Analysis.
• Strong communication (written, oral and interpersonal) skills.
• Ability to lead and be part of cross functional teams.
• Experience with computer maintenance management systems (CMMS), INFOR BE or equivalent.
• Advanced skills in basic personal computer software (Microsoft applications).
• Previous experience in the development of a manufacturing reliability program is a plus, but not a requirement.
• Background with construction safety to assess risks for critical jobs.
• Background in budget development and management.
• Capital project development and management is a plus.

What You'll Receive

• At James Hardie, we recognize that our success depends on our people. We've worked hard to build a generous and competitive benefits program that demonstrates our commitment to our employees.
• Comprehensive low-cost co-pay Health Insurance; medical, dental, prescription, and vision insurance benefits for every 30+ hour full-time employee. Insurance starts on day one!
• 401(k) Retirement plan that will match 100% of employees saved dollars up to the first 6% of your salary
• Paid holidays, paid vacation including Jury Duty and bereavement leave
• Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
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James Hardie Building Products Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, veteran's status, marital status, pregnancy, disability, or any other basis protected by law.