Lead Reliability Engineer - Appcast Enterprise : Job Details

Develop and implement a Reliability strategy at the Liverpool flu manufacturing site to achieve consistently high system availability through optimising of maintenance practices.

Investigate, evaluate, promote and implement methods to improve overall process and facility reliability, functionality and efficiency, while ensuring that the requirements of cGMP manufacturing are maintained. Reporting to our Head of Engineering, you will be based at our Liverpool site.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a site-wide reliability centered maintenance program for an existing biopharmaceutical manufacturing site through the application of extensive knowledge and experience in the field of engineering and maintenance.

• Implement asset reliability assessments of process and utility equipment.   Providing technical leadership, facilitation and expertise for the reliability assessments.

• Utilize Reliability Engineering tools such as CMMS, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Risk Based Inspections (RBI), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), PM Plan optimizations, equipment history analysis, failure predictions, predictive maintenance  techniques  and other to maximize equipment reliability.

• Apply engineering theory, practices, and principles to perform failure analysis, determine root cause of equipment failures and conduct equipment performance evaluations.  Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures that adversely affect plant reliability.

• Analyze equipment trends, historical data, and uptime data to recommend and justify improvements to obtain high reliability of production equipment.

• Establish and prepare site reliability KPI data / dashboard ensuring adequate focus on equipment reliability.

• Supports the development of maintenance standards and best practices including preventative and predictive maintenance practices.

• Recommends and implements reliability improvements for systems.

• Directly or indirectly manage engineers or maintenance technicians.

• Provides mentoring and coaching for engineering or technical staff.

Qualifications:

• Substantial related experience with reliability engineering within a relevant industry.

• Understanding of the principles of:

  • Maintenance and reliability best practices including condition monitoring and RCM

  • Rotating equipment and alignment techniques

  • Lubrication and fundamentals of interpreting oil analysis results

  • Vibration analysis and interpretation of vibration analysis reports

  • Fundamentals of nondestructive testing

  • Equipment Life Cycle Cost Analysis

  • Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

  • Engineering design standards and their application

  • Experience with CMMS systems (SAP-PM, Maximo)

• Industry expert in mechanical systems, plant and equipment for a large scale bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing site. 

• Strong leadership, organizational planning and project management skills, in addition to technical knowledge, is required to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.

• CMRP certification preferred.

• Demonstrated experience working in a matrix organization and indirectly leading others.

Different qualifications or responsibilities may apply based on local legal and/or educational requirements. Refer to local job documentation where applicable.

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