Reliability Superintendent

Position Overview:
The Reliability Superintendent is responsible for leading the Engineering teams improvements to system reliability and asset health. This person drives this team towards high uptime targets while ensuring plant equipment is properly maintained and monitored utilizing the PDCA feedback loops. This Leader also establishes a culture of sustainable asset management strategies by leading a team of engineers and external resources and through optimizing the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). This person will identify, manage and minimize asset reliability risks that could adversely affect safety, environmental and/or operational performance. The Reliability Superintendent reports directly to the General Manager. VP of Operations and indirectly to the Reliability Director.

Critical Success Criteria:

• Provide technical expertise and leadership to ensure that preventative/predictive programs, maintenance planning processes are executed to meet plant uptime and productivity targets.
• Conduct proactive reliability analysis to identify asset performance trends, using data and on the floor observations to address potential issues and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Champion and drive optimization of the CMMS to continually improve efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance programs.
• Identify, develop and leverage internal and external subject matter expertise to drive improvements in maintenance and reliability execution.
• Collaborate with operations managers to drive improvements to OEE through uptime impacts and equipment failure mode analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of effective PM's for equipment to support uptime and asset health.
• Champion the reliability/maintenance engineering team projects from the Engineering Steering project list driving ensure not only exceptional work quality, but also timeliness of project execution
• Collaborate with the maintenance execution team to drive sustainable reliability enhancements.
• Ensure quality data is entered into the plant downtime tracking systems, then analyzed to identify the highest opportunity equipment to improve upon.
• Lead development of predictive maintenance (PdM) program. Determine applicable PdM technologies, routines, and routes.
• Collaborate with Operations on reliability programs, ensuring sustainability including equipment monitoring, structured rounds and reliability operating practices.
• Oversee a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Assist in establishing and maintaining Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics and standards. Maintains data used in creating and updating KPI reports.
• Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis of systems and subsystems within the manufacturing environment.
• Lead and develop staff providing technical guidance and mentoring while ensuring compliance with corporate standards and human resources policies.
• Champion and foster company mission, vision and values by ensuring individual/team actions and behaviors are in alignment.
• Promote a culture of reliable equipment performance and drives systematic improvements.

Requirements:

• High school Diploma or GED minimally required
• 7+ years of experience in maintenance reliability role(s) within a heavy industrial environment
• Proven track record of driving equipment reliability improvements
• Strong understanding of maintenance and reliability principles and preventative maintenance programs
• In-depth understanding of CMMS systems and ability influence/drive systems adoption
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams
• Strong electrical and mechanical knowledge and aptitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge and application of lean tools, statistical tools, root cause analysis, failure mode & effect analysis, statistics
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited College or University preferred, but not required
• Previous experience driving change at a systemic level preferred, but not required
• Reliability certification(s) such as CMRP, CRE, or CRL preferred, but not required

Physical Requirements:

• Ability and willingness to wear respiratory protection directly against skin, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Ability and willingness to move about the plant, including climbing a flight of stairs, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Ability and willingness to work in a hot production area wearing protective clothing, with or without reasonable accommodation

Compensation Information: Salary Range: $107,159.62 to $176,713.06. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive plan which is determined by the achievement of strategic objectives. The market rate for the role is typically at the midpoint of the salary range; however, variations in final salary are determined by additional factors such as candidate qualifications, relevant years of experience, geographic location, internal pay equity, and prevailing market conditions for the specific role.

Benefits: Gopher Resource is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that promotes the health, wellness, and financial security of our employees. List of benefit offerings include medical & pharmacy, dental, vision, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), dependent care spending account, life insurance, disability programs, telemedicine, parental leave, tuition support, legal insurance, identity theft protection, gym membership discounts, EAP, 401(k) with a company match, and paid time off (vacation, personal, bereavement, holidays).

Gopher Resource is an Equal Opportunity Employer.