Reliability Engineers - Wood Products Lumber Plant Maintenance 4A

• The Reliability Engineer is an integral part of The Plant Maintenance Team.
• This position focuses on improving the plant's uptime and efficiency of the machinery and processes.
• This position also helps drive new ideas, systems, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the site.

Position: Reliability Maintenance Engineer - Wood ProductsPlant Maintenance Lumber / Timber

Locations: Multiple (Maplesville, AL, Huttig, AR., McDavid, FL., Henderson TX., Jackson, FL.)

Salary: Commensurate with Experience

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Site-wide responsibilities include a sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns, site services, and mobile equipment.
• Analyze plant downtime, quality, safety, and financial data to identify areas of focus for the maintenance and operations teams:
• Conduct and coordinate failure investigations, including analyzing failure mechanisms and implementing solutions to improve reliability, quality, safety, and financial performance.
• Redesign machinery and processes to improve plant reliability and lower operating costs.
• Direct supervision of the Reliability Technicians.
• Implement best practices for lubrication, handling, application, and storage of lubricants along with the oil analysis program.
• Direct oversight of the preventative and predictive maintenance programs which include vibration analysis, thermography, infrared, oil analysis, precision alignment, and others to improve the mill’s reliability program.
• Responsible for hydraulic and compressor programs.
• Champion the adoption of Best Maintenance Practices per the resource library in WF’s internal intranet.
• Utilize the mill’s computerized maintenance management system (Maximo) to manage all maintenance activities within the scope of this position.
• Assist in the planning and execution of maintenance activities where required.
• Identify other opportunities across the site to improve efficiency, lower cost, and reduce waste.
• Coordinate and manage services from OEM representatives and other third parties to improve equipment reliability, life cycles, and costs.
• Benchmark performance and best practices at other facilities.
• Communicate reliability activities and results to all departments including senior management.
• Understand machinery functions in detail. A “hands-on” approach will be required to fully understand the failure mechanisms of machinery.
• Project Management experience.

Education and Qualifications:

• Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, or similar Engineering Degree.
• Relevant experience with industrial manufacturing equipment and/or trades experience.
• Must-Have Experience with Wood Products / Lumber Products.
• Must have experience in improving the uptime, and improving the efficiency of the plant.
• Must-Have 3 to 8 years of experience with sawmills, planer mills, dry kilns, site services, and mobile equipment.
• Must-Have 3 to 8 years of experience Analyzing plant downtime, quality, safety, and financial data to identify areas of focus for the maintenance and operations teams.
• Must-Have experience with overseeing preventative and predictive maintenance programs
• Must-Have 3 to 8 years of experience redesigning machinery and processes to improve plant reliability and lower operating costs.
• Must be able to conduct and coordinate failure investigations, including analyzing failure mechanisms and implementing solutions to improve reliability, quality, safety, and financial performance.
• Must have experience implementing best practices for lubrication, handling, application, and storage of lubricants along with the oil analysis programs.
• Experience with computerized maintenance management systems.
• Must be a “Hands-On Engineer”, and required to fully understand the failure mechanisms of machinery.

Interpersonal Skills / People Skills Needed.

· Self-directed and motivated.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

· Willingness to adapt and thrive in a collaborative team environment.

· Well organized.

· Excellent interpersonal skills.

· Effective verbal and written communication skills.

· Computer proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, Maximo.