Reliability Engineer - Abs

Commonwealth Rolled Products is a leading manufacturer of Aluminum rolled products for the Automotive, Commercial, and Industrial markets. The Company operates its production facility in Lewisport, KY with the support of an Automotive Innovation Center for R&D, Sales and Field Service in Madison Heights (DET), and Inside Sales in the Cleveland, OH area.

Our production facility is seeking to add a talented Reliability Engineer to its ABS Maintenance & Engineering team. The purpose of this role is to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.

Responsibilities Include:

• Ensures reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/ security systems.
• Comply with all safety standards and regulations.
• Live and champion the Commonwealth Rolled Products core values; Safety, Integrity, Customer Focus, Ownership, Excellence, and Teamwork.
• Participates in the development, and evaluation, of criteria for equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers.
• Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations by using the life cycle asset management process.
• Participates in the final check-out of new installations, including factory and site acceptance testing.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other issues that adversely affect plant operations, such as capacity, cost, quality, or regulatory compliance issues, by using data analysis techniques such as Six Sigma, Weibull analysis, statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, and root cause analysis, among others.
• Provides input to risk management plan that anticipates reliability-related and non-reliability related events that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Tracks production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets and finds ways to reduce those losses and high costs through root cause analysis. Implements cost reduction plans.
• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans in assigned area.
• Defines, designs, develops and refines existing asset maintenance plan; to include value added preventive maintenance tasks; and predictive testing methodologies to identify reliability issues
• Works closely with production to perform analyses of assets including utilization, overall equipment effectiveness, and other parameters that define operating and equipment condition.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of continuous improvement processes helpful.
• Technical and process management skills are needed in this position, with potential ability to work multiple projects simultaneously.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a similar role in a heavy industrial environment required.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills required.
• Bachelor’s degree minimum in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the aluminum industry strongly preferred; experience with a continuous annealing line and cold mill processes beneficial.
• Knowledge of maintenance process and procedures is beneficial.

EEO Statement

Commonwealth Rolled Products is an equal opportunity employer and supports diversity in the workplace. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Our HR teams will reach out to the applicants who met the qualifications and most closely aligned with requirements of the positions.