Machine Reliability Associate Manager - Niagara Bottling

At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

Consider applying here, if you want to:   

• Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.   
• Develop lasting relationships with great people.   
• Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.

Machine Reliability Associate Manager

The Machine Reliability Associate Manager is responsible for designing and supervising the reliability centered maintenance procedures and processes for all Niagara’s fixed assets. This includes working with the plant and their respective vendors to ensure all maintenance related metrics and projects are maintained and completed and provide reliability centric solutions to all opportunities identified.

Essential Functions

• Develop systems for maintenance compliance and lead reliability centered asset care audits for manufacturing facilities across all Niagara plants.

• Lead onsite visits for audits and ensure compliance with OEM recommended maintenance procedures by evaluating plant maintenance practices.
• Lead audit analysis and organize audit close out presentations and educate the plant maintenance team on non-conformances observed during audit.
• Perform FMEA and RCA with plant team members as per criticality analysis and propose reliable solutions.
• Deliver recommendations to plant teams to improve maintenance practices.
• Lead implementation of safety policies, correct lubrication procedures and best PM practices across all plants.
• Facilitate CI initiatives to enhance process sustainability.
• Improvise the asset care audit system to ensure sustainability and ensure improvements in process -
  • Support with reliability knowledge the execution of the asset criticality, as part of the Asset Health Assurance Model.
  • Lead the process to determine the function, capability, functional failure modes, probability of failure, impact severity and acceptable risk for assets to define the right maintenance requirements to eliminate functional failures and their effects.
  • Establish a systematic PM/PdM review process with support from the plant maintenance team to ensure the effectiveness of the existing PM/PdM program.
  • Coordinate PdM efforts on site to measure and secure an upward trend of the Asset Health.
  • Supervise appropriate follow up recommendations and actions from the inspection program of assets.
  • Lead the process to Identify and implement opportunities for improvement of Asset Health to optimize plant uptime.
  • Verify the work preparation process to ensure job plans are prepared that explains the correct proactive tasks for effective work execution.
  • Lead maintenance tasks aligned with the reliability improvement: link active machine downtime causes with PM assessment and revision, Inventory Reduction, RCA, RCM, 5Why, 5S, and Reliability Centered Maintenance skills improvement using reliability knowledge.

• Lead execution of preventive maintenance (PM) program for all production lines within Niagara.

• Supervise process to establish preventive maintenance scripts/tasks for given equipment.
• Verify maintenance instructions as per actual equipment configuration/format at the facility and provide go ahead for upload in the system.
• Conduct onsite visits to validate the equipment maintenance instructions with plant’s and OEM feedback.
• Establish strong communication between plants and OEM to accomplish process requirements.

• Supervise CAV (Line Efficiency Trials) process for new production lines

• Verify and finalize KPIs to evaluate equipment performance during new line installation and acceptance trials.
• Co-ordinate plant support during line acceptance trials to identify areas of opportunity for continuous reliable production.
• Ensure the new lines are delivering desired throughput at design speed and per purchasing contract.
• Supervise follow up with equipment manufacturers and plant for any opportunities identified during acceptance trials and systematic closure of any open action items.

• Lead data analysis for machine availability and OEE to identify issues related to line performance and collaborate with plant and OEMs to trouble shoot these issues for improved line performance.

• List if any travel is required using percentage of time:
  • 50% - on average travels 2 weeks out of the month

• Please note this job description is not a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 4 Years   – Experience in the Plastics Industry or other related field
  • 4 Years  – Experience in Position including maintenance and reliability experience
  • 2 Years  – Experience managing people/projects

               *experience may include a combination of work experience and education

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • 6 Years– Experience in Bottling / injection molding industry experience, experience with reliability engineering and continuous improvement projects
  • 6 Years – Experience in position  including machine reliability experience              
  • 4 Years  – Experience managing people/projects

*experience may include a combination of work experience and education

Competencies

• Intermediate level knowledge of plastics, PET processing, blow-molding, filling and packaging process. Basic knowledge of PET bottling line equipment such as:
  • Blow Molder
  • Filler
  • Capper
  • Conveyors
  • Labeler
  • Case Packer
  • Palletizer

• Microsoft Office Applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, etc.

• Intermediate level knowledge of reliability engineering concepts, RCM, RCM 2.
• Good knowledge of reliability techniques such as RCA, FMEA, 5D, 5 WHYs, Reliability Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Tolerance and Worst-Case Analyses, Maintenance-induced failures etc.
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Basic understanding of data acquisition and processing tools and techniques and developing algorithms on common platforms to generate outputs
• Knowledge of ERP systems such as ORACLE, SAP.
• Able to translate data into recommendable actions to senior management
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-motivated with a proven record of taking initiative
• Able to work with minimal supervision
• Detail-oriented with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to execute tasks in a very dynamic and ever-changing environment
• Exercise sound judgment and ability to work effectively with a diverse workforce

This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:

• Lead Like an Owner
  • Makes safety the number one priority
  • Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
  • Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
  • Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
  • Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
  • Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
• InnovACT
  • Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
  • Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
  • Increases performance through greater efficiency
• Find a Way
  • Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
  • Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
  • Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
• Empowered to be Great
  • Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
  • Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
  • Communicates effectively to manage expectations

Education

• Minimum Required: 
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and other related fields or equivalent experience

• Preferred: 
  • Master's Degree in Mechanical/ Industrial Engineering

Certification/License:

• Required:            N/A
• Preferred:           N/A

Foreign Language

• Required:            None Required
• Preferred:           Elementary Proficiency, Spanish

Typical Compensation Range

$106,022.00 - $148,430.00 / Yearly

Benefits

https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits

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