Reliability Engineer

Job description

Key Responsibilities 

The Reliability Engineer is a key position to support the Technical Services Manager, in cooperation with colleagues of the site, his key responsibilities are:

-    Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication and team spirit are important in situations where teamwork is essential.
-    Develop the Sanofi Value Driven Maintenance Model (VDM).
-    Relationship management with suppliers.
-    Manage Long-Term Asset Planning: Analyze the asset management life cycle and availability of all facility and equipment systems on site. 
-    Provide maintenance strategies to optimize the utilization of the Pm system ensuring tasks and schedules effectively drive the equipment Reliability and Maintainability supporting the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
-    Use the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)  process to determine the maintenance requirements of the physical asset in its operating context including Functional Failures, Failure Modes, Failure Effects, and Failure Consequences (Root Cause Analysis, Fault tree analysis, Reliability modeling, FMEA's/FMECA, Failure reporting, etc.), engineering approaches, the Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS), other historical data, and industry best practices to improve equipment reliability and performance.
-    Provide synergies with the maintenance function and other cross-functioning teams to ensure a condition of minimal unscheduled downtime to support the availability of equipment.
-    Collaborate with Gatekeeper, trades and contractors to support Preventive Maintenance (Pm) schedules and tasks including Predictive Maintenance (PM) and Reliability projects.
-    Leads in building and maintaining spare parts inventory supporting the maintenance environment and continuous improvements initiatives.
-    Develop methodology LEAN 
-    Develop measure and monitor maintenance KPI's based around reliability / criticality, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), maintenance cost and up-time.
-    Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and maintain documentation practices to track all work history and improve data analysis. Educate/train the department on the value of building accurate equipment histories for trending purposes & reliability improvement.
-    Work with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations and adherence to life cycle asset management principles. Review projects for maintainability and access, providing input on new equipment selection, defining spare part requirements, communicating Preventive Maintenance (Pm) expectations, participating in final checkout of new installations, defining Maintenance related training requirements, and supporting development of Engineering Standards.
-    Work with the Maintenance Manager to develop and implement Methodologies, tools and procedures to identify and minimize facility and equipment risks. Effective maintenance strategies for new and existing equipment Predictive Maintenance program to improve equipment reliability and performance.
-    Develop the cost efficiency culture & mindset to reach the site target and priority.
-    Identify the Bad Actors and implement an action plan to resolve definitely the problematics. 
-    Build rational actions with savings to reach the site Performance Plan
-    Use all the lean tools and lean support when it’s necessary
 

Requirements:

•    Minimum five (5) years university’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical engineering;
•    Minimum five (5) years of previous relevant experience in manufacturing, maintenance, engineering environments; including five (2) or more working with maintenance personnel (both internal and contracted) in a Reliability Engineering role, preferred in pharmaceutical industry.
•    Understanding and experiences in Lean / Six Sigma / TPM methodology. Proficiency user of FMEA, RCA and other reliability tools.
•    Strong understanding of all trades, current Maintenance best practices, GMP, and common issues addressed by Maintenance.
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills. English (B2 minimum - Intermediate).
•    Demonstrated ability to pro-actively, and cooperatively work with cross functional teams.

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.