Reliability Engineer

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Reliability Engineer to join our Dixie cutlery facility in Leominster, MA. As a key leader, you will play a crucial role in driving our team toward success while maintaining a safe and incident-free environment in our fast-paced plant. With approximately 200 full-time employees, our non-union facility offers a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

This role requires strong teamwork, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. You will provide technical and engineering support, offering troubleshooting advice across maintenance and operational areas. Ideal candidates excel in interpersonal and communication skills, constructively challenge for improvement, stay current on best practices, and effectively collaborate and engage with teams. Our approach is guided by the Principle Based Management philosophy, fostering long-term value creation.

• Safety and Environment: Create and foster an environment where the team achieves zero incidents in Environmental, Health, and Safety. Lead a safety culture that values risk identification and personal ownership through a principled-based approach.
• Leadership and Training: Provide strategic and tactical leadership in the areas of safety, asset reliability, cost optimization, quality capability, and productivity. Assist maintenance management in identifying skill-gaps and facilitating the upskilling of maintenance employees. Enable training for precision maintenance practices through identified training opportunities.
• Reliability and Maintenance: Manage reliability activities to improve equipment availability based on industry best practices for rotating equipment, electrical and instrumentation systems, and injection molding machines. Lead efforts to identify, investigate, recommend, and implement equipment improvements, new systems, and process changes that will improve productivity, yield, quality, and/or reduce costs.
• Collaboration: Work closely with production, maintenance, and service teams to understand failure modes and effects and develop mitigation strategies; prioritize and develop action plans for our reliability-centered maintenance system. Collaborate with other leaders to develop, prioritize and execute strategies that improve the plant's competitiveness in aspects of plant operating costs, volume, and yield by utilizing Agile and Lean processes.
• Project Coordination: Ensure systems and resources are in place for inspection, restoration, quality assurance, and testing of systems in accordance with regulations and best practices. Coordinate execution of small projects and projects related to equipment reliability improvements.
  
  

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering
• Experience in reliability or mechanical integrity in a manufacturing/industrial environment
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and quick to learn PC-based production and maintenance systems
• Skilled in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• Able to interpret mechanical, structural, and electrical drawings
• Experience leading Maintenance Reliability, Predictive, and Preventative Maintenance improvement efforts
• Familiar with CMMS systems

• Minimum 3 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial facility
• Experience with capital project management and continuous improvement methodologies
• SAP experience
• Vibration training/qualifications
• Vibration and lubrication training/certifications (e.g., MLT1, MLT2)
• Six Sigma experience or certification
• Experience managing mechanical integrity inspection programs
• Knowledge of injection molding manufacturing processes