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The purpose of this position is to provide technical expertise and ownership of the maintenance program that results in equipment reliability needed to support current and future production objectives. This position will be responsible for the technical aspects of the maintenance program.  This individual will work closely with all levels of operations, maintenance, engineering and quality to identify critical equipment, prioritize critical equipment, analyze critical equipment using established methodologies, develop sound maintenance plans using established predictive and preventive maintenance techniques, reliability and maintainability metrics to solve equipment reliability and maintenance problems, lower the potential of critical equipment failures, and maintain an expertise on the current technology available for reliability improvements of the equipment and practices.   The engineer may be required to perform unique component and system analyses to identify reliability improvements and risk reduction improvements through design modifications and/or various reliability improvement strategies.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Provide support to equipment owner/user to complete CMMS data entry forms.




• Define boundaries for equipment lists and put equipment list into logical groupings.




• Determine critical business factors, including those for mechanical integrity, and rank the criticality of equipment.




• Develop appropriate (maintenance) plans based on Mechanical Integrity Maintenance Standards.




• Perform data queries to retrieve equipment history to determine the proper level of RCFA detail on recurrent equipment failures/downtime.




• Use Equipment Criticality ranking, Process Safety Management, Mechanical Integrity, CMMS data, and other Operational and Maintenance information as input to creating an FMEA—either in an individual or team setting.




• Determine equipment functionality, failure modes, failure effects.  Determine likelihood of failure modes.  Utilize FMEA to prolong equipment functioning by matching equipment use with proper maintenance tasks:  Condition Based Monitoring, Time-Based Maintenance, Redesign, Run-to-Failure, etc.




• Coordinate teams of operation, maintenance and engineering personnel to conduct Reliability Centered Maintenance analyses for the determination of maintenance strategies for equipment.




• Develop equipment life cycle plan strategy for critical equipment.  Develop maintenance plan strategy for critical equipment.  Initiate and complete appropriate change control documentation.  Recommend and drive implementation of approved countermeasures.




• Optimize maintenance resources and asset utilization by minimizing duplication within the maintenance and stores, promoting utilization of established standards (ANSI, AS, etc), and standardization of descriptions and procedures throughout the corporation.




• Provide inputs to determine need to delete modify or create job plans within CMMS.




• Support Instrument Reliability Technicians as requested on the implementation of COD/MU (Critical Operating Data/Maintenance Uncertainties) maintenance strategies.




• Assess business process changes to determine need for re-performing equipment criticality assessments.




• Utilize standardized procedures and metrics to monitor, analyze and review equipment reliability data.




• Interact with OEM’s, venders, and regulatory bodies, to stay abreast of upcoming changes, improvements, or new regulations that can affect reliability efforts.




• Develop, support and/or participate in the Equipment periodic reviews as requested.




• Initiate corrective engineering to improve operational reliability.




• Determine engineering estimates for resources and implementation costs for proposed corrective engineering.




• Provide information and support as necessary when Operations initiates change controls which impact equipment reliability.




• Revise and update equipment life cycle and maintenance as needed.  Adapt and implement preventative and predictive maintenance technologies to critical equipment sets.  Recommend and drive implementation of approved countermeasures.  Be an asset management resource and champion to area and site maintenance and operations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ Degree or Equivalent Experience




• Working knowledge of CMMS. SAP experience is highly recommended.




• Working knowledge of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance techniques, including but not limited to Tribology, Vibration Analysis, Thermography, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, equipment installation requirements, etc.




• Ability to make individual, small group and large group presentations.




• Must be able to lead, interact with and coach wide variety of individuals including shop floor mechanics to senior operations and maintenance management.

Additional Preferences:

• SAP experience




• Manufacturing experience




• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP)

Other Information:

• 8-hr. shift. A flexible work schedule is possible. 




• Work is usually performed Monday through Friday; however, one may be called in on weekends or evenings if a process outage occurs.




• Location: Fort Dodge, IA (relocation assisted for qualified candidate)

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status