A leader in technology and innovation, Southwire Company, LLC is one of North America's largest wire and cable producers. Southwire and its subsidiaries manufacture building wire and cable, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products. In addition, Southwire supplies assembled products, contractor equipment and hand tools. We are proud to offer competitive compensation, employee benefits, tuition reimbursement, and unlimited growth opportunities. Our nearly seven decades of progressive growth can be attributed to our determination to developing innovative systems and solutions, exercising environmental stewardship and enhancing the wellbeing of our communities. How will you power what's possible? Location: ((SCUPP, Carrollton, GA ))Southwire Job DescriptionTitle: Reliability EngineerReports To: Maintenance Reliability Manager Location: SCUPP, Carrollton, GA
JOB PURPOSE: The Reliability Engineer champions the implementation of reliability best practices. This role will also evaluate new best-known methods and technologies to continuously improve equipment reliability.Key aspects of this position include:
- Working with various plant teams and areas to identify, evaluate, and implement reliability improvement opportunities through changes to operating and maintenance procedures, and equipment upgrades.
- Analyzing equipment history to identify reliability improvement opportunities.
- Deploying root cause analysis methods and tools on problems or failures that have resulted in consequential impacts related to machine downtime and / or maintenance expense.
- Participating in new equipment selection and deployment processes to ensure reliability and maintainability principles are included in the design and implementation activities.
- Supporting the Autonomous Maintenance process by contributing to the design and selection of operator inspections and tasks to sustain equipment condition and performance.
Job Description
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- Promoting the following reliability strategies:
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- Planned corrective maintenance is more effective than reactive maintenance.
- Time based preventive maintenance is more effective than plan corrective maintenance.
- Condition based (predictive) maintenance is more effective than time based preventive maintenance.
- Prevention of maintenance is the best comprehensive maintenance strategy.
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- Participating in audits to measure and validate progression and performance in the reliability journey.
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- Utilizing reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles to optimize the equipment maintenance strategy.
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- Serving as a subject matter expert of the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and assist in end user training efforts to ensure master and transactional data integrity and accuracy.
Job Description1. MAJOR DUTIES: Major Responsibilities / Key Deliverables % of TimeServes as the facility RCA process champion and participates in failure analyses to identify corrective actions to eliminate failure modes or reduce the consequence of failure. 5Interacts with reliability engineers at other plants to share findings from failure analyses along with solutions to problems identified.