Reliability Engineer

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you!

Job Description

Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities
•    Work as a team member to design, develop and implement corporate preventative and predictive maintenance system for process manufacturing facilities by utilizing EAM software - IBM Maximo.
•    Implement and optimize cost justified Predictive and Preventative Maintenance Strategies and Reliability Best Practices at the plant.
•    Provide necessary CMMS related training to the end users, adhering to the Maximo SOP.
•    Administrate, maintain and continuously improve the Electrical and Mechanical Preventative Maintenance system to improve safety, product quality, production efficiency and labor/material effectiveness.
•    Analyze the Pareto value of Production Losses due to:  downtime, rate reduction and waste of specific critical equipment, identifying highest gain for Root Cause Analysis efforts.
•    Review Downtime data history to identify trends and repeat events leading up to failures as part of the methodology identifying root causes of failures in equipment and processes.
•    Facilitate RCM, using FMECA’s to assess criticality ranking of existing Failure Modes, identify and design out the Root Causes of defects and develop Predictive and  Preventive Strategies to reduce impact  or detect defects early enough to correct before an unplanned failure.
•    Assess and optimize the spare parts required to support the critical PM tasks developed from the RCM.
•    Evaluate justification of new technologies or inspection procedures to replace current instrumentation controls, sensors, drives, and other electrical components and inspection strategies.
•    Other related reliability and maintenance responsibilities.

Qualifications
•    Completion of University degree in Engineering (preferably in Electrical, Mechanical or Reliability Engineering)
•    3 or more years of experience in process manufacturing or industrial equipment design environments (Preferably with Maintenance)
•    Fluent in oral and written English
•    Proficiency with MS Excel, AutoCAD, and CMMS
•    Proven problem solver with various methodologies
•    Familiar with the Work Flow from a Service Requests to the final close out of Work Orders
•    Experience with plant Planning and Scheduling, shutdown procedures and Best Practices
•    Willing to travel occasionally within North America for training and/or assist at other IKO Plants
•    Excellent communication and analytical skills
•    Self-directed, takes initiative and is self-motivated to exceed Roles, Responsibilities and Expectations

Considered a Plus if Experience Includes:
•    Facilitation of multiple RCM’s using FMECA’s to set Criticality to equipment failure modes
•    Facilitation of dozens of successful RCFA’s that have improved uptime and cost.
•    Conducted Spare Parts optimization
•    Development of PM, PdM strategies and Best Practices for high speed manufacturing equipment
•    Developed and tracked KPI’s to improve schedule adherence of Shutdown and Routine (Running) PM Inspections
•    Worked with condition monitoring equipment such as: vibration analysis, ultrasonic lube, belt tensioners, etc. As well as precision installation tools such as: Laser alignment, sonic belt tensioners, etc.
•    Operational or Production experience

Leadership Skills
•    Worked with electrical standards such as: IEEE, National Electric Code, NEMA, etc.
•    Experience with IBM Maximo (CMMS) implementations or other equivalent systems Operational experience.

Diversity, Equal Opportunity and Accommodations:
IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
IKO Industries Ltd. encourages and welcomes internal applications from employees with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for internal applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Benefits of Employment: IKO recognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees. A primary goal of IKO is to promote individual employee's sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with IKO. The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, IKO. We are pleased to offer competitive compensation, health care, a progressive and challenging workplace and a commitment to teamwork and integrity.

Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment: IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. IKO Industries Ltd. encourages and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.