Job Description
The Reliability Specialist – North America will work with North America segment operations and maintenance teams to achieve world-class availability, productivity, and quality in support of the business goals of the segment.
Responsibilities
- Fulfils the commitment to ensure a safe and healthy work environment.
- Promotes Maintenance – Operations partnerships to improve reliability and efficiency.
- Shares with the Maintenance and Operations leadership team the accountability to ensure that North America segment operations and manufacturing process is stable, reliable and achieves the Business Units Goals.
- Works with Maintenance and Operations teams in the North America plants to ensure that equipment reliability strategies are in place and aligned with Business Plan.
- Perform assessment audits of North America plants maintenance systems following ARMP or ISO-55000 norms, to assure that all elements of the Asset Reliability Process are in place.
- Assure that Asset Criticality and Standards are in place and correctly applied:
- Equipment Maintenance Programs (EMP) to achieve required goals are developed and implemented;
- Manufacturing Performance Analysis and Performance Management;
- Provide reliability services to mill business units and act as a liaison for external reliability support including but not limited to Asset Prioritization, FMEA, RCA, targeted improvement efforts.
- Facilitate and/or Manage the Root Cause Analysis Process with teams in the plants.
- Participate in continuous improvement of both Equipment and Product/Process performance, thereby improving the overall Business Unit performance.
- Help North America plants develop reliability KPIs to aid in managing their reliability processes.
- Benchmark and participates in identifying best in class reliability benchmarks, performance gaps and the development of plans to close the gaps.
- Participates in the development and execution of the Business Plan.
- Provide communication of company policies, notices, conducting oral and written performance reviews and equitable assignment of work to team members.
- Fulfils the responsibilities required to achieve the Quality Commitment.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, a Technical Degree, or a combination of education and experience
- 5+ years demonstrated experience in operations, maintenance, engineering, or reliability positions in a steel mill, or other heavy industrial environment.
- Experience with planning and scheduling of maintenance activities.
- Extensive experience with project and process documentation.
- Ability to lead a team through the following sub-processes:
- Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA);
- Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM);
- Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA);
- Predictive Maintenance Technology (PdM).
- Ability to execute all elements of the Process and Product Quality Control Process, including leading a team through the following sub-processes:
- Quality Planning, Quality Control, and Continuous Improvement;
- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis;
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
Desired Requirements
- Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional.
- Ability to work with and/or lead people to achieve positive results.
- Intermediate to proficient skills with Microsoft products; especially Excel and Project.
- Reliability Centred Maintenance experience including Equipment Maintenance Program development preferred.
- World Class Manufacturing practices and program management knowledge preferred.
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal communications skills, written and verbal.
- Ability to run effective meeting – meeting facilitations.
- Good Benchmarking skills.
- Demonstrates strong decision-making, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Able to competently handle a fast-paced environment, with strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills.
- Demonstrates commitment to teamwork by fostering an environment that embodies trust and respect.
Language Requirements
- English: Advanced (fluent in both written and spoken communication) – mandatory.
- Spanish: Intermediate (comfortable with basic and conversational communication) - good to have, but not mandatory.
- French: Intermediate (comfortable with basic and conversational communication) good to have, but not mandatory.
Travel Requirements
- Frequent (50%) travel to North America operating units.
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