Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

Founded over 35 years ago First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan Pennsylvania into a group of companies employing over 5000 team memberswhile maintaining ourfamilyvalues and entrepreneurialspirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada the companies within the First Qualitygroup produce high-quality personal care and household products forlargeretailers and healthcareorganizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers wipes feminine pads paper towels bath tissue adult incontinence products laundry detergents fabric finishers and dishwash addition we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility unity and integrity we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality youll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning professional development and our mission to Make Things Better.

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Reliability Engineer for our First Quality facility located in Lewistown.

This position will be responsible for improving reliability of plant equipment and systems through preventive and reliability maintenance strategies.

Principal Accountabilities/ Responsibilities:

• Co-develop implement and drive adherence to site reliability program.
• Co-develop implement and refine machine component tracking and life cycle systems.
• Manage interface between reliability program and site CMMS.
• Manage entirety of plant vibration data collection and analysis and provide operational recommendations to the maintenance and production activity.
• Co-develop and implement a standardized monitoring program to include ultrasound infrared non-destructive inspections and other predictive maintenance techniques throughout the facility as needed.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis and co-develop procedures and recommendations for permanent elimination of problems with the process project and maintenance activity.
• Observe and comply with all company mandated safety rules and PPE requirements. Notifies appropriate personnel of real or potential safety hazards or violations and takes immediate corrective action when necessary.
• Work with maintenance management to develop annual goals for continually improving maintenance reliability.
• Co-develop tools and techniques to analyze and improve preventive maintenance procedures.
• Co-develop improvements to the safety design of the equipment including but not limited to Lock out / Tag out.
• Participate in meetings including weekly planning and scheduling meetings and provide relevant reliability consultation to aid in setting shutdown schedules.
• Co-develop and implement standards-based repair procedures documenting repairs developing and implementing vendor standards.
• Collaborate with maintenance management and necessary vendors OEMs and training activities to improve the skills/practices ofmaintenance personnel and inspection routines.
• Collaborate with process and maintenance management to evaluate equipment performance and drive machine design improvements.
• Support and develop ongoing standards for CMMS.
• Share in Department On-Call Responsibilities.
• Attend all applicable training seminars provided by the Company.

Education and experience requirements:

• Advanced communication planning and organizational skills.
• Established maintenance/technical background.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to direct others and work in a team environment.
• Good overall mechanical piping electrical and instrumentation aptitude.
• Ability to understand and reference maintenance documentation (blueprints shop drawings manuals etc.)
• Solid working knowledge of personal computers and common office software. Ability to manage multiple projects and issues in a controlled manner and pull appropriate resources together to deal with unplanned setbacks.
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• B.S. in Engineering required (Mechanical preferred) or equivalent experience in reliability engineering.
• 3 years of industrial maintenance experience preferred in a High-Speed Manufacturing Environment.
• 5 years of experience in vibration data collection and analysis (Cat I or greater) preferred
• Familiarity with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems such as MP2 SAP or EAM preferred.

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (years worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program with savings of up to $4000 per year on insurance premiums
• ...and more!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who as a result of their role specifications may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Qualityis an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability sexual orientation gender identification or protected Veteran status.

For immediate consideration please go to the Careers section at m to complete our online application.