Regional Reliability Engineer

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Waterloo, IA
50K-100K
Senior level
Chemical
The Role
The Regional Reliability Engineer ensures equipment reliability, drives safety and maintenance improvements, and supports operational efficiency in a manufacturing setting.
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WHO WE ARE

          We are a company where people matter

          We are family driven

          We are financially strong.

          And we are looking for problem-solvers to join our growing team.  

OPPORTUNITY

The Regional Reliability Engineer ensures the reliability of facilities, equipment, utilities, processes, and systems across multiple Hydrite locations. They create programs and procedures to support reliability and mechanical integrity. This role oversees safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance in a manufacturing setting, focusing on improving reliability, safety, and environmental compliance. The engineer also develops maintenance resources and drives continuous improvement initiatives.

Safety:

  • Champion safety principles, job planning, and process safety initiatives.
  • Ensure assets operate within design parameters and meet regulatory standards.
  • Maintain robust safety practices and assist with hazard assessments to prevent future

Maintenance and Reliability:

  • Develop and implement a reliability strategy for critical equipment or systems by utilizing maintenance best practices and KPI’s to improve equipment reliability to enhance operational safety and performance.
  • Develop design, installation, test, and inspection criteria for equipment and suppliers.
  • Inspect new installations to ensure they meet specifications and makes recommendations to modify current installations when needed.
  • Define, develop, and maintain an asset maintenance plan and Mechanical Integrity.
  • Support site Mechanical Integrity element owners and other PSM/RMP/Calarp programs.
  • Develop Continuous Improvement opportunities to remove waste and control cost around plant maintenance.
  • Become knowledgeable on the functionality of the CMMS (Maximo) and historian software (ex. Delta-V PI) to better utilize these systems to improve overall maintenance.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain a process to communicate the plant maintenance/reliability KPI’s based on the maintenance program to ensure quality information is available to evaluate equipment life, performance, and issues.
  • Investigate equipment failures and ‘bad actors’ to determine root cause and implement the necessary corrective actions to eliminate failures.
  • Develop preventative maintenance schedules to ensure the correct level of activity to successfully maintain equipment. Monitor effectiveness and update as needed.

Leadership and Development:

  • Collaboration with facilities maintenance and operations teams to drive safety, quality, reliability, and performance.
  • Provide technical and operational support for site regarding plant equipment and operation.
  • Assist in training and development of Maintenance personnel around technical and procedural practices.
  • Identify and attend regular training to improve department knowledge and capabilities including membership in relevant organizations.

Competencies: 

  • Detail Oriented
  • Project and Time Management
  • Analytical thinker
  • Leadership
  • Team Builder
  • Strong communicator
  • Problem Solver

REPORTING STRUCTURE

  • This position reports to the Maintenance and Reliability Manager

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL CRITERIA

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering and work within a technical field, with 5-10 or more years of experience.
  • Three to five years of chemical/food processing or manufacturing experience with supervisory or management experience.
  • Serves as leader of authority with expert-level knowledge in one or more areas. Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations that are backed in data and experience.
  • Plans, organizes, guides projects and consult with others at the facilities.
  • Able to collect, manipulate data and build tools/dashboards to report MI and Reliability.Experience with PSM/RMP or Calarp methodology.
  • Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, design, function, and process. Maximo preferred.
  • Ability to effectively communicate, both verbal and written, with employees and management.
  • Strong computer skills and knowledge of Power Point, Word, and Excel required. (Business Intelligence not required, but preferred)
  • Must have communication and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to read, write, and speak English.

BENEFITS

Benefits and perks include 401k and profit sharing, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, legal services insurance, scholarship awards for children of employees, summer picnic, community giving events, free family wellness coaching including nutritionist and fitness coach.

WHY HYDRITE?  

Watch this Why Hydrite video to find out:  https://vimeo.com/201673899

WANT TO STAY CONNECTED?  FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

  • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/hydrite-chemical-co-
  • Facebook: facebook.com/hydrite
  • YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs_493NR8RI

Learn more about Hydrite on our website: www.hydrite.com/careers

Privacy Notice for California Residents: https://www.hydrite.com/Legal/Privacy-Notice-for-Employees.htm

Top Skills

Cmms
Delta-V
Maximo
Excel
Microsoft Power Point
Microsoft Word
Pi
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The Company
HQ: Brookfield, WI
765 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1929

What We Do


At Hydrite, we are family driven, financially strong and we are looking for problem-solvers to join our growing team.

What employees say about Hydrite:

- “The owners truly care about the employees and their families, despite significant growth. This type of environment is
becoming more rare. I feel blessed to be part of the success of
the organization.”

- “Strong family values and great benefits.”

- “Everyone cares about everyone else, from the lowest to highest positions in the company.”

We are one of America's healthiest workplaces!
- Gold designation as a Well Workplace award recipient from WELCOA

For more Hydrite news and announcements visit
www.hydrite.com, or follow us on facebook.com/hydrite.

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