Reliability Manager

Magnera's purpose is to better the world with new possibilities made real. For more than 160 years, the originating companies have delivered the material solutions their partners need to thrive. Through economic upheaval, global pandemics and changing end-user needs, they have consistently found ways to solve problems and exceed expectations. By bringing together these legacy companies, the distinct scale and comprehensive portfolio of products will bring customers more materials and choices. With a combined legacy of resilience, Magnera will build personal partnerships that withstand an ever-changing world.

Job Summary:

Will serve as a site leader for preventive and predictive maintenance and will lead technical problem solving efforts.

• Responsible for uptime of process, ancillary, and facilities equipment. Will ensure all equipment is safe to operate, and will lead continuous improvements efforts for the team.

Primary Responsibilities: (Task, Duties Performed and Essential Functions)

• Establish and lead plant safety objectives. · Ensure compliance to all safety policies and procedures.
• Ensures team members and contractors work safely and comply with all safety policies.
• Responsible for holding employees and contractors accountable for working safely, effectively and within all organizational guidelines.
• Uses risk analysis tools and techniques to evaluate safety issues.
• Participate in, support and champion safety initiatives.
• Responsible for the daily monitoring and troubleshooting for quality and production
• Develops and leads improvement programs around quality, process capability and yield reduction
• Support and maintain a culture of continuous improvement, quality, high performance and process excellence
• Understands and implements strategic management aspects of reliability engineering, its relationship to safety and quality, its impact on customer satisfaction, the consequences of failure and the potential for liability.
• Plans for reliability programs and integrates various engineering and operational systems to achieve overall program goals and alignment with organizational goals.
• Develops models to analyze and predict performance using block diagrams, physics of failure, apportionment, dynamic of reliability, and simulations
• Develops reliability test plans that represent the expected use environment and operational conditions.
• Identifies, collects, analyzes and manages various types of data to minimize failures and improve performance. Uses failure analysis and other types of root cause analysis in support of reliability.
• Assist with site regulatory compliance.
• Regularly interacts with frontline leaders and production employees to provide direction and leadership.
• Maintains ISO compliant maintenance records for site equipment.
• Identifies chronic yield, uptime, and productivity issues and identifies corrective actions to address.
• Assists with budget preparation.
• Implements preventive and predictive maintenance to improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Participates in identifying and developing training to ensure department has skills needed to support the business.
• Partner with Operations Team, asking for clarification and conferring with the requestor for additional clarification
• when needed.
• Originate and process emergency work orders when needed.
• Validates all modifications made to equipment.
• Assists in writing and updating standard maintenance procedures.
• Familiarizes self with new equipment and assists in training technicians and maintenance team.
• Stays informed of process changes which may affect the normal operation of the equipment.
• Assists large installations and equipment modification projects.
• Maintains a team effort attitude and approach.
• Leads 6s and TPM initiatives.
• Uses probability and statistical tools to analyze product lifecycle, conduct hypotheses testing, appropriate statistical
• modeling, tolerance and confidence intervals, sample size determination, and regression analysis.
• Trains designated backup and others as identified in all tasks.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects or tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, smell. The employee must periodically lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Regularly required to climb up to four levels above floor. May be required to climb up to 200 feet above ground level. The employee will frequently climb up to three levels above floor level. The employee will be required to enter permit and non-permit required confined spaces.

Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time; dust; heat; humidity, odors. The noise level in the work environment varies and hearing protection is required in some work areas. The employee is frequently exposed to extremely high speed machinery with open inward turning rolls, extremely hot surface areas and moving lift truck traffic.

Education / Work Experience:

• Education (Degree/Major) BS in Engineering or equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities
• Certifications Professional certification preferred (TPM, CMRT or other relevant certification)
• Six Sigma Black or Green belt preferred
• OSHA 10 hour certification
• Certified or eligible to become certified CPR/First Aid/BBP
• Work Experience Minimum of 3 years in Maintenance, Reliability or related field.
• Language Country Specific

Competencies: (Technical, Business / Organizational, People / Behavioral)

Leadership:

1. Situational Leadership skills and strong personal accountability to achieve goals.
2. Develops the competency, confidence and leadership abilities of others through effective coaching and delegation.
3. Ability to be a change agent and drive results
4. Ability to empower and motivate people for involvement, cooperation and compliance.
5. Strong personal accountability to achieve goals and develops this in others through effective coaching and delegation.
6. Proactively develops plans for improvement and effectively communicates and sells those plans to others
7. Ability to deliver committed performance indicators. Initiates corrective action, anticipates issues, and develops contingency plans
8. Strong organizational and delegation skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
9. Considers and formulates new ways to exceed company objectives.
10. Inspires others to see and to help seize emerging opportunities for improvement and success.
11. Takes responsibility for actions, respects confidentiality, completes commitments on time, and uses data to support decisions

Initiative:

1. Proactively seeks and seizes opportunities to improve the company’s offerings and overall positioning.
2. Develops and refines strategic plans and action plans to achieve declared objectives.
3. Strong sense of urgency
4. Effectively communicates / sells those plans to others, gathers and incorporates further input where appropriate and then implements action steps efficiently and prudently.
5. Self-motivated to improve processes and performance. Can adapt and reapply new ideas and methods to improve team/plant performance
6. Pursues training and development opportunities to continuously build knowledge and skills.

Managing People:

1. Challenges, coaches & aligns staff and extended interdepartmental networks in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process

improvement.

2. Manages performance, talent and growth of teams.
3. Effective communication skills, written and oral, including presentation skills, technical and program writing, and the ability to communicate with all levels of management and employees.

Team Work:

1. Balances team and individual responsibilities;
2. Recognizes accomplishments of other associates.
3. Offers constructive feedback and advice to fellow associates in a tactful manner.
4. Accepts and considers feedback and advice to enhance probability of desired outcomes.
5. Partners and works effectively across all functions and levels.
6. Works effectively with others to achieve performance goals

Oral & Written Communication:

1. Speaks and writes clearly and persuasively. Responds well to questions. Employs active listening skills.
2. Demonstrates strong group presentation skills; Presents information, ideas, conclusions and abstract concepts concisely and effectively.
3. Can interface effectively with customers, vendors, contractors and senior leaders.

Problem Solving:

1. Gathers and analyzes information skillfully and efficiently.
2. Prioritizes and identifies causal connections, related issues and actionable alternatives.
3. Applies practical criteria to decision alternatives in order to choose course of action.
4. Considers and articulates implications for implementation.

Technical Skills:

1. Detailed knowledge of film production and product technologies, data analysis skills, broad understanding of related technologies.
2. Demonstrated proficiency in the use of standard office machines and computer software including Outlook, Excel, Word, Powerpoint.
3. Knowledge of standard accepted troubleshooting, repair, reliability and effective planning & labor utilization strategies.
4. Knowledge of OSHA, NFPA and EPA laws, standards and regulations governing manufacturing sites (29 CFR 1910).
5. Working knowledge of manufacturing industry.
6. Business understanding and teambuilding skills.
7. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
8. General understanding of basic physics, engineering, chemistry, math.
9. Uses data and proven methods to analyze, troubleshoot, and develop solutions to problems.
10. Knowledge and experience with the use of product and facility related costs and the ability to develop cost reduction.

Change Management:

1. Champions change initiatives as needed.
2. Adapts to shifts in marketplace and to organizational change as required..

Other:

1. Ability to work outside normal business hours to include evenings, nights, and weekends.