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Aspire Bakeries LLC

Reliability Engineer

Aspire Bakeries LLC, Cayce, South Carolina, United States, 29033

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Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

The Reliability Engineer ensures that proven Reliability Engineering and Continuous Improvement methods and techniques are used to maximize asset and system availability, throughput, quality, safety, and environmental performance. Responsibilities

Ensure sound Reliability Engineering principles are applied to maximize asset availability, throughput, quality, safety, and environmental performance

Provide technical oversight for equipment hierarchy development and maintenance planning/scheduling/execution functions

Manage maintenance storeroom operations and Asset Criticality Database development

Develop failure modes driven Equipment Maintenance Plans (EMPs) and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives

Analyze asset failure data using statistical methods to optimize MRO inventory, preventive maintenance frequencies, and equipment design

Determine optimized maintenance strategies through reliability modeling based on downtime costs, maintenance costs, and EHSS impact

Oversee condition-based monitoring activities and manage the site’s Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

Lead Root Cause Analysis efforts and maintain databases of RCA/RCFA/PDCA results

Apply reliability analysis methods to new equipment designs and develop Design for Reliability Standards

Leverage Lean concepts (5S, Kaizen, PDCA, Value Stream Mapping) to support asset reliability processes

Manage capital engineering projects and ensure proper equipment design, installation, and commissioning

Qualifications

Education: BS Degree in Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Reliability, or equivalent

Experience: 3-10 years as a Reliability/Maintenance Engineer in manufacturing with strong focus on Continuous Improvement and Lean concepts

Skills

Advanced understanding of predictive and preventative maintenance processes

Demonstrated leadership and project management capabilities

Strong written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills

Proficiency in MS Office Suite, CMMS (SAP preferred), statistical analysis software, and availability simulation/modeling tools

Familiarity with Lean/Six Sigma methodologies

Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) preferred

Travel Required 5-10%

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Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

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