Position Overview:
The Reliability Superintendent is responsible for leading improvements to system reliability and asset health. This person drives towards high uptime targets ensuring plant equipment is properly maintained and monitored utilizing the PDCA feedback loops. This person also establishes a culture of sustainable asset management strategies by leading a team of internal 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 Maintenance & Reliability Engineering Manager.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Develops effective PM's for equipment to support uptime and asset health.
• Collaborates with the maintenance execution team to drive sustainable reliability enhancements.
• Develops and maintains predictive maintenance (PdM) program. Determines applicable PdM technologies, routines, and routes.
• Collaborates with Operations on reliability programs, ensuring sustainability including equipment monitoring, structured rounds and reliability operating practices.
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Assists in establishing and maintaining Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics and standards. Maintains data used in creating and updating KPI reports.
• Performs Root Cause Failure Analysis of systems and subsystems within the manufacturing environment.
• Leads and develops staff providing technical guidance and mentoring while ensuring compliance with corporate standards and human resources policies.
• Champions and fosters company mission, vision and values by ensuring individual/team actions and behaviors are in alignment.
• Promotes a culture of reliable equipment performance and drives systematic improvements.
• Ensures quality data is entered into the plant downtime tracking systems, then analyzed to identify the highest opportunity equipment to improve upon.

Requirements:

• High school Diploma or GED minimally required
• 7+ years of progressive experience in maintenance and/or reliability within a heavy industrial environment
• Strong understanding of maintenance and reliability principles and preventative maintenance programs
• In-depth understanding of CMMS systems and ability influence/drive systems adoption
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited College or University 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

Gopher Resource is an Equal Opportunity Employer.