Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ADM is a global leader in human and animal nutrition and agricultural origination and processing, providing ingredients and solutions worldwide. The Principal Reliability Advisor will drive enterprise-wide asset reliability improvements through maintenance strategy development, defect elimination, root cause analysis, performance analytics, and reliability team development across multiple processing sites.
Responsibilities
- Recognized subject matter expert and go to person in asset reliability processes and practices
- Partner with regional RCM and performance excellence teams to drive defect elimination and bad actor management processes to quickly improve asset downtime
- Review and analyze asset performance data and maintenance history to identify trends, predict failures, and supports improvement plans to close gaps
- Collaborate with and guide maintenance and operations teams to develop and refine preventative and predictive maintenance programs
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) efforts on critical equipment failures that materially impacts the business, and work with site and regional partners on long-term fixes to prevent recurrence
- Develop and help embed a Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) at our sites
- Lead or significantly support asset criticality reviews in partnership with regional and site-based teams
- Measure and monitor Key Performance Indicators to track reliability performance across the multiple business units
- Use statistical risk-based approaches to determine optimal equipment life and use the results to help inform business and enterprise level asset reinvestment/restoration plans and their associated capital and operating expenditures
- Defect elimination process champion and support the upskilling site and regional reliability teams in its use and application
- Support sites and BU partners in developing their zero-based budgets based on asset condition, asset performance and business requirements
- Provide mentoring and training to site and regional teams on the use and application of reliability best practices and related tools
- Custodian of the asset strategies library for core, common and critical equipment
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical or Industrial), or a similar technical discipline
- 8+ years' progressive experience in experience in the reliability field, with at least 3 years in a corporate role, ideally with oversight over multiple processing plants
- Subject Matter Expert in reliability with focus on defect elimination processes and practices
- Strong knowledge of reliability principles, tools, and methodologies (e.g., FMEA, RCFA, RCM, PMO)
- Subject Matter Expert in Life Data Analysis and other statistical tools used to assess equipment capability, condition and performance
- Sound understanding of process equipment design, operation and maintenance
- Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and train reliability professionals
- Ability to translate both technical and business challenges into practical solutions, as it relates to asset reliability
- Ability to create collaborative relationships with stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities
- Effective communication, and presentation skills
- Proven decision-making quality and drive for results
- Ability to influence without direct authority and lead change through others
- Ability to travel to manufacturing facilities as needed (approximately 30%)
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
- Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP)
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- A long-term incentive plan
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