Reliability Engineer

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As a Reliability Engineer, you will support the factory in enabling and delivering asset maintenance in accordance with the Nestlé Strategy. You will utilize Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as a multi-disciplined approach to enhance and improve fixed assets, while managing their life cycle through Asset Management Methodology (AMM). Your goal will be to achieve sustainable, long-term low production costs and high reliability, rather than focusing solely on the immediate correction of daily losses. In this role, you will partner with the factories to foster a culture of "Continuous Improvement and Zero Loss" in maintenance, aligned with the principles of Nestlé Continuous Excellence (NCE). You will actively champion Nestlé's NCE programs and provide support and coaching within the factory to eliminate losses, manage risks, and implement life cycle asset management (LCAM). Additionally, you will assist in master planning and skill development to transition to and sustain a proactive, planned maintenance program.

Responsibilities

• Define, propose, and monitor the Maintenance and Reliability plans and objectives in accordance with Engineering Policy, Key Principles, and the M&I Activity as outlines in the Nestle Engineering Excellence (NEE) master document. Validate results achieved in the program.

• Monitor plant/equipment trends to ensure best possible operation and reduction of planned/unplanned downtime.

• Propose and monitor key performance indicators in accordance with the Best Maintenance Practices.

• Lead the factory to reduce technical stoppages in equipment or areas of common occurrence (priority given to areas of highest incidence or impact). Ensure the systematic review of all line, processes, and utilities that are critical to the business and those where failure can have an unacceptable impact on safety, personnel safety, food safety, environment, or compliance with the law.

• Develop capability in and be able to coach and guide the use on the floor of Maintenance Continuous Improvement Tools such as BDA, X-Matrix, AMM, SAM, Tags,etc

• Insure the implementation of all repairs/modifications resulting from Gap assessments, plant audits, and notifications and loss improvement activities

• Master the use of AMM to manage the technical stores, scheduled Work Orders, labor hour allocation, equipment Bill of Material (BOM), system reporting and data analysis, including coaching of users and development of capability.

• Ensure that the job planning, material and services planning process is appropriate, accurate and effective.

• Ensure that the equipment history, damage code and root cause analysis are completed correctly and analyzed regularly for trends.

• Update/Optimize Reliability Engineering tools and guidelines, to minimize unplanned and Planned Downtime, ensure a common approach, administration, and training

• Utilize external suppliers, experts, other factories and corporate team to ensure proper technical solutions are defined and implemented to eliminate root causes.

• Support implementation and sustainability of TPM-PM Pillar in the factory.

• Analyze the factory M&R budget, drive value-added and sustainable improvements with the assistance of the Maintenance Engineer and Factory Engineer, as well as Corporate Engineering.

Qualifications

(BA/BS) in Engineering (Maintenance & Reliability, Mechanical, Electrical, Process, Chemical or equivalent) strongly preferred or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of related work experience.

Skills

• Recognized skills in Engineering and Maintenance.

• Knowledge, understanding, and passion for continuous improvement methodologies

• Knowledge and understanding of the cost drivers of Maintenance in manufacturing operations

• Good working knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP preferred) with the ability to mine and analyze data for trends/reports

• Strong Analytical and problem solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• The ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, including managers, technicians, operators and subject matter experts.

• Able to organize, coordinate, and direct users and teams

• Strong oral and written communications abilities

• Solid analytical and technical skills

• Excellent presentation skills

• Project Engineering/Management

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