US Yogurt is currently seeking candidates to join our Maintenance Team.  

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

At Lactalis US Yogurt, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE!  You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company. 

From your PASSION to ours

The primary role of the Reliability Engineer is to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. This broad primary role can be divided into three smaller, more manageable roles: Loss Elimination, Risk Management and Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM).

LOSS ELIMINATION

One of the fundamental roles of the Reliability Engineer is to track the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets, then find ways to reduce those losses or high costs. These losses are prioritized to focus efforts on the largest/most critical opportunities. The Reliability Engineer (in full partnership with the operations team) develops a plan to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis, obtains approval of the plan and facilitates the implementation.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Another role of the Reliability Engineer is to manage risk to the achievement of an organization’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production. 

LIFE CYCLE ASSET MANAGEMENT

The Reliability Engineer shall be involved in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets through equipment of life and decommissioning.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Works with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets
• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans
• Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. 
• Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria 
• Assume punch list at Engineering to Maintenance project hand-off
• Dialog regularly with Maintenance Supervisors and Process Specialists about engineering needs of equipment
• Participates in the final check out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors, and refines an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes: 
  • Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
  • Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Develops engineering  solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility the Reliability Engineer applies: 
  • Six Sigma (6s) Methodology
  • Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA)
  • Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Works with Production to perform analyses of assets including: 
  • Asset Utilization
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness
  • Remaining useful life
  • Other parameters  that define operating condition, reliability, and costs of assets
• Support and/or own vendor, supplier, OEM visits – Depending on scope
  • Equipment rebuild
  • Machine upgrades
  • Material defect feedback
• Provides technical support and training to production, maintenance management, and other technical personnel
• Identify training opportunities for Maintenance and own from inception to completion – Must be sustainable
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
• Assist with obsolescence reviews of stocked warehouse items and approve the disposal of materials no longer needed
• Assist in development of the annual maintenance budget as needed
• Have active role in work planning forecasts and prioritization
• Own actions, content, and technical communication on Line Boards and KPI board(s)
• Own, lead, set agenda, and content for Line meetings 
• Attend Compass daily and speak to downtime on areas of ownership and potential opportunities  
• Other duties and responsibilities as necessary

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; 7-10 years’ experience in maintenance in high-speed manufacturing environment; food and/or dairy experience preferred. Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• Ability and willingness to be on-call to support the plant with respect to our maintenance on-call policies 
• Flexibility to work outside of normal working hours as needed 
• Strong working knowledge of project and maintenance workflow 
• Prefer experience utilizing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) approach
• Demonstrated skill collaborating effectively with a diverse group of people including management, field operations and peers 
• Solid understanding of the application of life cycle cost analysis and its relationship to reliable asset management 
• Demonstrated knowledge of corporate engineering standards 
• A working knowledge of SAP maintenance management systems 
• Expected to be self-motivated and autonomous

 Lactalis US Yogurt and Subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer