Reliability Engineer

About the role

IKO Industries Ltd., a Canadian-owned manufacturer of roofing and building materials, is hiring a Reliability Engineer in Ennis. This is a safety-sensitive position. The engineer improves equipment performance, reduces downtime and enhances plant reliability by analysing failures, applying preventive and predictive maintenance and driving continuous improvement, working with maintenance, operations and engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead training on Maximo-integrated 5-Why root cause analysis and troubleshooting, and keep the mechanical, electrical and process FMECA/RCM current to reduce production losses.
• Take part in weekly reliability team meetings, training, webinars and reliability publications, and support ongoing reliability improvements.
• Lead corporate surveys, questionnaires and benchmarking for IKO reliability assessments.
• Use production loss and maintenance cost data to run problem-solving and troubleshooting teams.
• Build strong relationships with maintenance and operations staff to deliver efficient running and shutdown preventive maintenance plans.
• Prepare and facilitate a shingle line FMECA/RCM after Pareto analysis of production losses, used for PM optimisation and spare parts strategy.
• Troubleshoot equipment, design for reliability, select and manage contractors for installation and commissioning of new equipment, and monitor modifications and critical parts.
• Support the inventory coordinator and planner/scheduler during emergencies and vacations, and carry out other reliability-related duties assigned by the manager.

Required profile

• University degree in engineering, preferably mechanical engineering.
• 3+ years of reliability experience in continuous process manufacturing.
• Experience facilitating dozens of successful RCFA's.
• Fluent English, verbal and written, with effective presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to other IKO sites; operational and supervisory experience is a plus.

Required skills

• Familiarity with condition monitoring tools such as vibration analysis, ultrasonics, lubrication analysis and thermography.
• Experience with FMECA, production loss analysis, failure mitigation and spare parts optimisation.
• Building standardised PM and PdM plans in Maximo or a similar CMMS, MS Office and AutoCAD.

What we offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance, health spending account and short-term disability.
• 401k match, paid vacation and floating days.
• Employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement and employee engagement events.