Reliability Engineering Manager

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. 

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards. 

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries

The Reliability Engineering Manager champions reliability program deliverables through training, development, and technical support activities of the onsite engineers and technicians.

Responsibilities include but not limited to the following:

• Direct and coordinate activities of CRE’s to ensure customer contract product and services are fulfilled.
• Collaborates with commercial team to meet reliability program goals and objectives.
• Participates in regular meetings (monthly, quarterly, yearly) with both internal and external reliability program stakeholders to evaluate program performance.
• Perform personnel functions, such as selection, training, evaluation, coaching, and counseling.
• Plan, prepare and deploy departmental budget and manage processes to forecast expenses, explain variances and mitigate negative variances.
• Review financial statements, activity reports, or other performance data to measure productivity or goal achievement and identify areas needing cost reduction or program improvement.
• Work closely with sales and marketing to identify new products or line extension opportunities.
• Support the field organization in the development of training materials, technical papers and other technical product support.
• Collaborate with the ServiceMax team to improve reliability management software.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering required.
• Minimum 5 years increasingly responsible professional experience in plant process systems and equipment operation or design knowledge is required. 
• Strong supervisory experience with direct reports required.
• Solid multi-project management skills and experience required.
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal, strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Proven track record of driving change and achieving results is preferred.
• Experience working in a diverse environment and managing multiple sites is a plus.

* Must live within commuting distance or willing to relocate to Port Arthur. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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