Reliability Engineer

Position: Reliability Enginer

Location: Boca Raton, FL, United States, , Boca Raton

Status: Full Time, Permanent

Responsibilities

• Works with Project Engineering department to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
• The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new and old assets.
• Participate in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans.
• Be part of the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers.
• Develop acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Be part of the final check out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will ensure adherence to functional specifications.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor and refine an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes value-added preventive maintenance tasks and effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.
• Work with Production to perform analyses of assets including, asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life and other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets.
• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.
• Provide process engineering support for required equipment upgrades and or modifications and champion these efforts including writing and directing all change control activities/ deviations as required by our Quality Systems, OSHA etc.
• Assist in and/or champion investigation of deviations that are facilities/maintenance related etc. and ensure the appropriate corrective actions are taken.
• Direct and or assist in the design and execution of all capital projects assigned.
• Create purchase requisitions, submit for approval and manage budgets.
• Train SMEs in problem solving techniques.
• Prepare annual evaluation and operational assessment reports of critical systems and equipment for review and final approval.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent. Experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as reliability engineering/maintenance experience in cGMP, pharmaceutical/biological manufacturing environment including experience with process equipment (pumps, centrifuges, refrigeration, fluid flow).