Mechanical Reliability Engineer - Part of the Central Operations Team

Mechanical Reliability Engineer - Part of the Central Operations Team

AV Group NB Inc., is an exciting and innovative company that is backed by the world class strength of the Aditya Birla Group (ABG), a 100 billion $USD corporation in the league of Fortune 500 companies. With operations in 36 countries. The Group is anchored by an extraordinary workforce of over 140,000 employees, belonging to 100 different nationalities. Over 60 percent of its revenues flow from its overseas operations. As a member of Aditya Birla Group based in India, the Pulp Business is mandated to produce specialty cellulose to service the textile Industry as well lignin for special applications. We operate 5 Pulp Plants across geographies. 3 Units in Canada, 1 Unit in Sweden and 1 Unit in India. These plants are operated with different pulping technologies that include PHK Kraft, Sodium Bisulfite and Magnesium Bisulfite Process to produce Dissolving Grade Pulp. Our Sweden Facility has a Unique Biorefinery to Produce Lignin and Ethanol. 

The Central Operations Team is a corporate function operating from the Nackawic, NB facility. The Central Operations Team are responsible for adopting best practices in technology and partnering with the units in resolving key process challenges, meeting customers and stakeholder’s expectations. The team will drive reliability improvement programs, quality Improvement initiatives and support capital investments across the pulp plants.

AV Group NB Inc. is currently recruiting for the following position: Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Reporting to the Head of Maintenance Excellence and CAPEX, this Position is the “Go-To” expert and process specialist responsible to provide action plans to ensure reliability in production processes across the pulp units. Play a key role in trouble shooting major issues in mill operations and supporting and achieving the required efficiencies and customer expectations. Develop recommendations to improve the basic design of plant or technology, leading to improvements in plant productivity, efficiency, quality, and cost reduction.

Responsibilities:

• Experience designing and implementing preventive maintenance systems with focus on condition monitoring;
• Analyze Maintenance KPIs like pending work-orders, work-order compliance, slippage activities, service requests, breakdowns, maintenance expenses, MTTR, MTBF, equipment life cycle, etc.;
• Familiar with the RCFA process, find recurring failures and perform root cause analysis of critical breakdowns and monitor implementation of corrective actions;
• Data analysis to predict potential failures and take respective actions with maintenance teams to prevent machine failure;
• Highlight key asset parameters like under/over utilization, equipment OEE, slippage of maintenance activities, etc.;
• Knowledge of engineering concepts like risk management, loss elimination, asset lifecycle management, equipment upgrade decision, etc.;
• Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and Maintenance Software (Maximo-IBM) to reduce downtime;
• Experience with management of change processes for existing and new machines and equipment;
• Use performance evaluation tests to find potential safety and production risks;
• Familiar with CAPEX processes from ideation to commissioning;

Team Working:

• Good team spirit. The position requires strong collaboration with units and central functions.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal;
• To work with maintenance area owners/teams to develop strong predictive and proactive maintenance reliability system for the mill equipment;
• Collaborate with project engineers to develop maintenance system for new equipment or modified assets and installations;
• To participate in discussion of technical specifications and process development for installation of machine requirements;
• Push for continuous improvement and reliability in the plant;
• Update new maintenance activities in the system as per request of maintenance dept. people training on software, resolving issues, etc.;

Qualifications

• Candidate must have 8-10+ years of experience in Maintenance & Reliability;
• Must be a Mechanical Graduate Engineer / Engineer Diploma;
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification;
• Working knowledge in Pulp Mill will be preferred;
• Analytical ability of maintenance data management;
• Good experience with MS Office (an Essential) / AutoCAD (an Asset).

Why AV Group NB Inc.?

With AV Group NB Inc. you will become a part of a worldwide global company that understands the value of their employees. You will be part of a team that is built on strong values and work ethics. AV Group offers challenges in a wide range of disciplines and opportunities for professional growth, a competitive salary, competitive benefits package and a variety of training & development programs to help you develop the skills you need to build a successful career.

If you believe you are a good fit for a fast-paced, challenging work environment, please submit your application online https://www.av-group.ca/job-listings no later than October 11, 2024.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.