TITLE: Reliability Engineer

LOCATION: South Sioux City, NE      

REPORTS TO: Maintenance/Reliability Manager

The Reliability Engineer will assume the responsibility to implementing strategies to optimize asset lifecycle, minimize downtime, and improve overall operational efficiency. Additionally, this role will utilize analytics and statistical expertise to enhance asset availability, developing strategically optimized and reliable maintenance plans to augment process capability and increase production capacity.

Core Responsibilities:

• Efficiently implement advanced predictive maintenance technologies and methodologies to enhance equipment reliability utilizing innovative predictive tools, including vibration analysis, ultrasound, lubrication, and infrared thermography, to proactively identify potential issues before they escalate into equipment failures.
• Analysis of equipment reliability and performance data to gain comprehensive insights, identifying potential issues and failure modes through the application of reliability-centered maintenance techniques, ensuring a proactive approach to maintenance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement continuous improvement strategies aimed at optimizing overall equipment reliability and performance.
• Continuous improvement initiatives, cost-saving measures, digital transformation, optimization of asset lifecycles, downtime reduction, and asset reliability management.
• Lead and drive continuous improvement projects to elevate the reliability and performance of factory assets and structures.
• Identify opportunities for minimizing downtime through proactive maintenance strategies with predictive maintenance methodologies to address potential issues before they impact day-to-day operations, ensuring uninterrupted productivity.
• Define the strategy for activities related to tribology and lubrication, encompassing vibration analysis, thermography, metal corrosion, asset integrity, thermochemical analysis, ultrasonography, and fault diagnosis.
• Analyze existing operational costs with a focus on implementing innovative and effective cost-saving strategies, ensuring resource utilization, without compromising the reliability of operations.
• Devise and execute strategies to optimize the lifecycles of factory assets and structures, collaborating closely with engineering and operations teams to integrate reliability seamlessly into the design and planning phases, ensuring long-term operational efficiency.
• Apply Life Cycle Costing methodologies for evaluating the economic life of assets, enabling modernization and reliability projects by making informed decisions based on a thorough understanding of maintenance costs, future resource needs, and potential investment alternatives.
• Spearhead transformative digital initiatives utilizing the IPS Reliability method for predictive maintenance and implementing state-of-the-art technologies to amplify asset monitoring, performance analysis, and maintenance strategies, fostering a digitally optimized operational environment.
• Utilize techniques such as Six Sigma, Applied and Advanced Statistics, Predictive/Proactive Analysis & Tools, RCM, FMEA, FEMECA, Analytics tools, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and machine learning for innovation.

The Reliability Engineer position is well-suited for you if you have:

• Strong time management, excellent communication, and organizational skills.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and enhance overall efficiency.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on reliability best practices.
• Foster good interpersonal relationships, empathy, team spirit, negotiation, and cooperation.
• Upskill and mentor team members, promoting a proactive and committed work environment.  
• Ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships and to communicate across functional lines and at all levels.
• Ability to learn and apply Ingredion’s Safety, Environmental, GMP, and Quality standards.
• Ability to deliver results in a challenging and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work as a team member with a variety of people at all levels within the organization.
• Initiative-taker with a strong work ethic with a proactive drive to continuous improvement.
• Represent and support management with an elevated level of Professional Integrity and Operational Discipline.
• Ability to ensure team adaptability, flexibility, and readiness to change.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and/or
• Proven experience as a Reliability Engineer/Engineer or similar role in an industrial or manufacturing setting.
• Strong knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance principles and techniques.
• Proficiency in using predictive maintenance tools and technologies.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
• Preferred Certification in Reliability Engineering (CRE) or equivalent.
• Experience with reliability software and data analysis tools.
• Preferred knowledge of Six Sigma or other continuous improvement methodologies.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.
 

Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Ingredion seeks to provide a work environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. We will not tolerate any form of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, handicap or disability—mental or physical—marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability resulting from military service, or any other classification protected by law (“protected classifications”). We are committed to establishing and maintaining a work environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

Relocation Available:

Yes, Within Country