Reliability Engineer jobs in Lynchburg, VA

Overview

Berry Global Berry Global, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important.’ With $13 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019 on a combined pro forma basis from operations, Berry is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry operates over 290 manufacturing facilities worldwide, on six continents, and employs over 48,000 individuals.

At Berry, we pursue excellence in all that we do and are always advancing to improve the way we work along with the products and services we provide. Our culture fosters trust and partnerships through appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion. At Berry, we are continuously improving to support our mission and exemplify our values of partnerships, excellence, growth, and safety. To learn more about Berry, visit berryglobal.com

Responsibilities

Responsible for uptime of process, ancillary, and facilities equipment.  Will ensure all equipment is safe to operate, and will lead continuous improvements efforts for the team. Will serve as a site resource for preventive and predictive maintenance and will lead technical problem solving efforts.

• Establish and lead plant safety objectives.
• Ensure compliance to all safety policies and procedures.
• Ensures team members and contractors work safely and comply with all safety policies.
• Responsible for holding employees and contractors accountable for working safely, effectively and within all organizational guidelines.
• Maintains drawings for site equipment.
• Maintains ISO compliant maintenance records for site equipment.
• Identifies chronic yield, uptime, and productivity issues and identifies corrective actions to address.
• Assists with budget preparation.
• Implements preventive and predictive maintenance to improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Prepares cost justifications for projects.
• Participates in identifying and developing training to ensure department has skills needed to support the business.
• Participate in, support and champion safety initiatives. 
• Support and maintain a culture of continuous improvement, quality, high performance and process excellence
• Assist with site regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Operations Team, asking for clarification and conferring with the requestor for additional clarification when needed.
• Originate and process emergency work orders when needed
• Validates all modifications made equipment
• Documents all modifications made to equipment (i.e. updating schematics, drawings, work instructions, etc.).
• Assists in writing and updating standard maintenance procedures.
• Familiarizes self with new equipment and assists in training other technicians.
• Stays informed of process changes which may affect the normal operation of the equipment.
• Assists large installations and equipment modification projects
• Leads and supports the effective implementation of investment projects approved for capacity or facility expansion and upgrades.
• Leads 6s and TPM initiatives.
• Understands and implements strategic management aspects of reliability engineering, its relationship to safety and quality, its impact on customer satisfaction, the consequences of failure and the potential for liability.
• Plans for reliability programs and integrates various engineering and operational systems to achieve overall program goals and alignment with organizational goals. 
• Uses risk analysis tools and techniques to evaluate safety issues
• Uses probability and statistical tools to analyze product lifecycle, conduct hypotheses testing, appropriate statistical modeling, tolerance and confidence intervals, sample size determination, and regression analysis. 
• Develops models to analyze and predict performance using block diagrams, physics of failure, apportionment, dynamic of reliability, and simulations
• Develops reliability test plans that represent the expected use environment and operational conditions. 
• Identifies, collects, analyzes and manages various types of data to minimize failures and improve performance. Uses failure analysis and other types of root cause analysis in support of reliability. 
• Provides backup for Maintenance Leader
• Trains designated backup and others as identified in all tasks. 
• Additioanl duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering or equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities

• Professional certification preferred (TPM, CMRT or other relevant certification)

  Six Sigma Black or Green belt preferred

  OSHA 10 hour certification

  Certified or eligible to become certified CPR/First Aid/BBP  
• Minimum of 3 years in Maintenance, Reliability or related field.