Reliability Engineer

3 weeks ago

Taupo, New Zealand Koru Talent Full time

Monitor production equipment health
- Develop inspection criteria and maintenance schedules
- Work in the countryside, in one of NZ's most iconic locations - Taupo

**We’re trawling for a highly experienced reliability engineer to ensure uninterrupted, optimum production for an exciting and growing business.**

Are you the type of engineer that get your kicks from getting in front, and staying on top of the service and maintenance requirements of state-of-the-art machinery?

Our employer partner needs an engineer with a passion for resplendent reliability. This reliability engineer position is responsible for ensuring that the wood pellet fuel plant’s equipment and processes operate at optimal levels and meet the needs of the business’s operations. The main goal is to increase equipment uptime, reliability and efficiency to maintain a world class production environment through mechanical and electrical reliability.

Maintenance documentation to the world’s best practice standard is critical.

This role’s primary focus is to ensure optimum plant reliability by preparing for the entire life cycle of manufacturing equipment.

**About the reliability engineer role**:

- Reports to the Engineering Manager.
- Responsible for finding potential problems or opportunities for improvement by analysing data and identifying patterns within the data.
- Conducting root cause analysis to determine the underlying cause of problems
- Develop and implement solutions to prevent problems, ultimately improving the reliability of systems, equipment, and processes.
- Ensures all regulatory requirements are always met and supports the production and compliance systems.
- Responsible for preventative maintenance, unplanned breakdown investigations, machine service, R&M budget control, and other maintenance functions as required.
- Develop and maintain a quality preventative maintenance programme.
- Maintain strong relationships with OEM machine suppliers, outside contractors, the operations and maintenance teams.
- Actively leading/championing process improvement and H&S actions.

**About you**:

- You have the relevant mechanical trade or engineering qualification.
- You have proven experience in manufacturing systems and machines.
- You are an analytical thinker: you think critically and logically and have the ability to work with large sets of data and make sense of them.
- You are a problem-solver: the ability to think creatively and come up with innovative solutions to complex problems.
- You are a skilled communicator: you explain technical concepts in a clear and understandable manner, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively with others.
- You have experience in managing external suppliers, contractors and staff.
- You are committed to Health & Safety and industry compliance.
- You are a good team player with a passion for manufacturing.
- You’re skilled at budgeting and cost control.
- You’re well-versed in detailed reporting, planning, and contributing to management.
- You are cool and collected and your work product is smouldering hot.

**About our employment partner**:

- Nature's Flame is the largest wood pellet plant in the Southern Hemisphere, right in the heart of the New Zealand timber industry - Taupō.
- As a manufacturer of premium wood pellet fuel from lumber waste, they are the only pellet producer in Australasia to hold the prestigious _DINplus_ certification from DIN CERTCO. They provide customers around the world with the highest quality wood pellets from New Zealand, and they are doing it in a sustainable, earth-friendly way.
- Recognised globally as a truly renewable, truly sustainable heating fuel that is affordable and available to every home, business, or factory that needs to heat water or air.
- Competitive salaries and KPI bonuses as performance rewards.
- A small, tight-knit team working in a state-of-the-art plant where excellence is appreciated and rewarded.
- Great rural location in one of New Zealand’s most iconic towns.

If the sound of this role makes you burn hot with excitement, we’d love to hear from you. If, however, the position is not for you, but you know of someone who’d be great in it, please pass this advertisement to them and encourage them to apply.

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