Lactalis 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).

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Responsible for all aspects of food safety and quality as defined in plant and department procedures.
• 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.
• Manage risk to the achievement of an organization’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability
• Involved in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets through equipment of life and decommissioning.
• Work with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. Responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Participate in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans.
• Participate in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develop 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.
• Participate in the final check out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Provide input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine 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

• Develop 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)

• Work 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

• Provide 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.
• Apply 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 developing the annual maintenance budget as needed.
• Have an active role in 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.
• Support environmental programs established within the organization to include recycling of all office wastes in accordance with program guidelines, initiate power conservation techniques by turning off lights and computers when not in use.
• Proactively look for ways to reduce negative impacts on our energy costs.
• Proactively work in a safe manner in the context of performing the functions of your position, lead by example.
• Oversee the implementation and adherence to Company safety practices and programs and hold staff accountable for leading safety in the workplace. 

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. 
• Experience utilizing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) approach preferred. 
• 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.
• Ability to safely lift 50 lbs.
• Ability to bend and reach files and cabinets where records are stored.
• Ability to work in an office environment with repetitive computer-based tasks.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.