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Reliability Engineer Job

Date: Mar 3, 2010

Location: West Point, PA, US

Reliability Engineer-MAI000142

Description

Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.


As a member of the Engineering/Maintenance/Utility Department, the primary role of the Reliability Engineer is to provide and/or improve asset reliability and capacity of manufacturing process and utility equipment in a Pharmaceutical/Vaccine manufacturing facility. Through analysis of equipment history, process data, and Failure Modes Effect Analysis, the Reliability Engineer is responsible for the correction of equipment problems causing repetitive failures.

Job responsibilities including but not limited to......

* Ensure equipment is maintained in compliance with all safety, environmental, and quality requirements.
* Define, design, develop, monitor and refine the preventive/predictive maintenance processes and precision maintenance techniques.
* Perform root cause failure analysis on equipment failures and develop strategies to prevent recurrence.
* Support thePlanner/Scheduler to develop technically complex work procedures.
* Serve as technical liaison for capital projects to ensure reliability, maintainability and operability of installed equipment.
* Monitor the performance of maintenance metrics, investigate variance from targets and implement action items to improve performance.
* Support all aspects of process change control (evaluation, approval, communication, planning scheduling, validation and project documentation, auditing, training, implementation).
* Provide technical support for production area quality deviation investigations, and
* Execute activities to meet production targets, product and maintenance cost reduction targets.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or four years Engineering Technology degree.

Requirements:

* Minimum ten years experience in pharmaceutical, chemical, petro-chemical, or similar industries.
* Working knowledge of cGMP for pharmaceutical and/or vaccine manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma Methodology, Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Computerized Management Maintenance Systems (SAP), and CMRP certification.

Our employees are the key to our company's success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Merck's benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.

merck.com/careers to create a profile and your resume for requisition # MAI000142.

Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V - proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations

Primary Location
:US-PA-West Point

Employee Status
:Regular

Number of Openings
:1


Nearest Major Market: Philadelphia
Job Segments: Animal Health, C#, Electrical


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