Specialist - Engine Engineering - Reliability Engineering

Position Description - Engine Engineering - Specialist - Reliability Engineering
HR-AL-HR-JDSP-S-0150782

Position Summary:

• Responsible for the Support of the Engine Maintenance Section – Reliability Engineering staff in day-to-day department activities ensuring HMMA policies and procedures are carried out to achieve established business company goals and objectives in an automotive manufacturing environment. Perform reliability engineering improvement duties in planning, scheduling, and designing improvements to tools, engines, machines, and other functioning equipment. Oversee installation, project improvement, preventative maintenance, and repair of such equipment.

Essential Functions:

• Implement and track cost saving. Increase equipment reliability and uptime; develop Preventative maintenance strategies and schedules. Manage Capitol equipment projects. Perform economic evaluation/Justification Analysis in Reliability & Maintainability Investments.
•  Maintain and manage spare part inventory, prioritize/plan and procure spare parts, plan for obsolete part replacement, and review cost and reliability savings of substitute part replacements.
•  Failure Elimination (Preventable Chronic Failures). Investigate equipment failures and difficult to diagnose issues to make recommendations to maintenance crew. Lead countermeasure and improvement activity.
• Provide technical training, create lessons and training sessions for skills improvements of maintenance and engineering personnel to design, evaluate, install, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot equipment systems.
• Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, and other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and maintenance requirements of designs or applications.
• Communicate and coordinate directly with Contractors and OEM on all types of projects or issues. Conduct research that tests and analyzes the feasibility, design, operation, and performance of equipment, components, and systems.
•  Administer, coordinate, and comply with all Business Management System (BMS), Environmental Management System (EMS), and Safety Management System (SMS) requirements.
• Meet all other requirements as assigned.

Position Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in an engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial) discipline preferred.

Related Experience:

•  0 – 10 years of job related experience preferred.
• 10 years maintenance experience desired.
• 10 years programming experience with CNC metal cutting equipment desired.
• 5 years experience supervising the improvement and repair of CNC and automated equipment desired.
• 5 years controls experience with Siemens, Fanuc, AB, and other controls with the ability to modify and troubleshoot PLC and CNC and Robotics system programs desired.

Skills / Knowledge:

• MS Word.
• MS Excel.
• MS PowerPoint.
• Auto-Cad or other design software desired.

Additional Information:

• Position may require occasional travel (domestic or foreign). Flexibility in working hours to include weekends, holidays, and off shift. Position may require on-call duty or overtime due to overall responsibility.