Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect facility manufacturing processes.
• Completing criticality analysis (FMEA) of plant assets, to ensure correct PM and spare part holding.
• Develop maintenance tech capability (knowledge transfer through training).
• Work with regional reliability engineers/asset management lifecycle team to understand leading maintenance practices to be implemented at the plant.
• Drive embedding predictive maintenance practices within the site maintenance agenda.
• Support plant maintenance manager with special tasks and actions.
• Develop, present and implement improvement proposals and advise the Site Leadership Team.
• Translating the maintenance concept into maintenance tasks and work assignments.
• Monitoring of performance indicators, benchmarking, procedures and work instructions.
• Collect and organize of relevant and reliable production and maintenance data. Upload this data in ERP (SAP PM) system.
• Analyzing: data, identifying deviations, problems and improvement possibilities.
• Analyzing problems, finding (core) causes, both in technology, in human behavior, and in the organization.
• Providing well-considered recommendations and proposing / taking effective measures.
• Preventing risks through preventive measures and anticipating unforeseen measures.
• Anticipating creating added value and eliminating waste.
• Facilitating group meetings in solving issues and involving the right professionals at the right time.

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S) in Engineering.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CRMP) preferred.
• 5 plus years of progressive experience in engineering, reliability or plant maintenance.
• 1 – 2 years prior food manufacturing or alternative heavily regulated environment (e.g. Pharma manufacturing, automotive etc.).
• Experience in continuous improvement working with lean tools and methodologies, preferred.
• Self-motivated, hands-on individual with keen interest in quickly learning and applying new skills who can follow written/verbal instructions and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, and experience is SAP and AutoCAD (preferred).

Compensation Data

The typical hiring range for this role is $73,758 to $108,755 annually and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, location, etc.  In addition to your pay, Kerry offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and retirement contribution (all benefits and incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).