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About West Liberty Foods
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West Liberty Foods manufactures hundreds of meat and poultry products that can be found in well-known grocery stores and top restaurant chains nationwide. Recognized as one of the top protein processors in North America, we have the capacity to produce over 650 million pounds of food products per year across our facilities. We are The Surprisingly Big Company, and we're right in your backyard.
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Opportunity Overview
Position Detail
Information
Job Title
Reliability Engineer
Location
Tremonton, UT
Shift
1st
Annual Salary Range
$104,000 - $140,000 depending on experience
Shift Premium
None
Job Summary
As a Reliability Engineer, you will be a proactive problem solver playing a crucial role in driving asset performance and operational efficiency. The Reliability Engineer will analyze failures, pinpoint root causes, and implement structured solutions that increase uptime and reduce costs. Through a combination of technical expertise, data-driven decision-making, and cross functional collaboration, the Reliability Engineer will play a key role in developing and maintaining proactive maintenance strategies and driving a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Loss Elimination: Identifying and addressing production losses or high maintenance cost assets to reduce their impact.
- Risk Management: Managing risks to environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production. This involves utilizing tools like FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
- Life Cycle Asset Management: Ensuring reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations throughout their lifecycle. This includes participation in design reviews, development of installation specifications and commissioning plans.
- Proactive Maintenance Strategies: Developing and implementing proactive maintenance strategies, including predictive and preventive maintenance, to minimize downtime and prevent failures.
- Data Analysis & Problem Solving: Analyzing performance data, identifying trends, and conducting root cause analyses to determine the underlying cause of problems and develop solutions.
- Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Leading or supporting continuous improvement initiatives, potentially using methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, or Value Stream Mapping.
- Collaboration & Training: Collaborating with various teams (design, maintenance, production) to implement reliability principles and train staff on new procedures or systems.
- Specific duties include:
- Analyzing equipment failure data and conducting root cause analysis.
- Develop and implement maintenance and equipment monitoring procedures,
- Identify new technologies for reliability improvement
- Develop training programs
- Collaboration with other departments to integrate reliability and implementing quality assurance programs are also key.
- Utilizing Lean/Six Sigma methodology, establishing metrics, and standardizing parts are part of their responsibilities.
- Special projects as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.