Reliability Engineer

Schedule:

Monday - Friday (40 hrs/wk)

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Department: Systems Engineering - 514

Primary Purpose:

This position is responsible for improving machine and system reliability on equipment and instruments used in technical operations. Supports and partners with the engineering teams, operators, and management to maintain and continuously improve all aspects of a large and complex 24/7 operation. Responsible for analyzing and continuously improving equipment reliability and mechanical integrity to achieve the highest degree of equipment effectiveness at a sustainable cost. This position requires exceptional analytical skills, logical reasoning and people skills.

About ARUP:

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient's life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.

We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.

Essential Functions:

Develop and lead the reliability process in a manner that will have a direct impact on equipment uptime, efficiency, cost management, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, innovation, and ultimately profitability.

Analyze operational data and equipment performance history to deliver improvements in critical maintenance related metrics / KPI's

Participate in engineering design reviews of products, systems and sub-systems to provide guidance and recommendations to engineers on design advantages for improved operational reliability

Identify areas of concern; inform design engineering and make recommendations for improvements

Conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) with engineering for new product development and product improvement programs.

Provide recommendations on any changes to testing protocol. In some cases, provide direct assistance on specific reliability tests. Update reliability growth plans, allocation models and predictions and provide feedback to design engineering.

Analyze data using systematic, industry-standard reliability techniques and tools such as Weibull, ReliaSoft, Relex, and Bellcore.

Schedule and chair Corrective Action Boards as required to address product reliability issues

Works with ARUPs teams to influence machine reliability and world class Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program.

Develops inspection plans, reading specification and modeled drawings, root cause analysis, corrective actions

Provide technical support to onsite maintenance teams as required to resolve mechanical problems

Ensure that all maintenance work is performed in accordance with maintenance engineering standards and to the highest quality.

Recommend course of action to management regarding production reliability issues and may design and specify alterations and revisions to improve equipment reliability.

Work with, and at times, lead cross-functional team in identifying potential quality problems, characterizing failures, and driving corrective and preventive actions.

Effectively communicate with decision makers internally on complex issues both verbally and written.

Other duties as assigned.

Physical and Other Requirements:

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

Communicate: Frequently communicate with others.

PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.

ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Fine Motor Control: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

Vision: Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity to perform a variety of tasks such as make general observations of depth and distance.

Continuing Education: Continual assessment of current literature and best practices.

Travel: Ability to travel off-site 1%-10% of time

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)