Reliability Specialist

Job Description and Responsibilities

• We are seeking an experienced Reliability Specialist to join our growing Maintenance team based at our Calgary facility. The role of the Reliability Specialist to identify and manage risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations, direct and provide leadership for an Asset Management Plan that will improve asset reliability and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership. If you meet our qualifications and like the idea of applying your experience working in an industrial manufacturing environment for a leading manufacturing company, we want to talk to you!
• Support the capital project process to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations
• Develop, monitor and continuously improve an Asset Management Plan
• Root cause analysis to determine and develop engineering solutions for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations
• Evaluating and implementing predictive maintenance programs where applicable (thermos, ultrasonic, vibration)
• Regularly review all equipment failures using data analysis to determine what preventative maintenance action might have been taken to prevent failure in order to protect against reoccurrence
• Contribute to planning of production capacity based upon analysis of preventive maintenance time needs, repair histories and inspection reports
• Apply value analysis to make maintenance decisions
• Develop standardization program, which influences new equipment purchases including construction, materials, equipment and spare parts
• Identify potential for cost reduction through extended parts life, reduced labor cost, and other material-related improvement techniques
• Participate in review phase, of design, of capital additions and changes in plant layout to ensure full maintainability of equipment, utilities, and facilities
• Participate in approval of all new installations, including those done by contractors, to ensure their maintainability and reliability follow life cycle costing methods
• Train maintenance staff as required