Senior Reliability Engineer
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company · San Leandro, California, US
The Senior Reliability Engineer will lead efforts to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance strategies across production op...
Job description
The Senior Reliability Engineer will lead efforts to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance strategies across production operations. This role bridges engineering, operations, and maintenance teams to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective manufacturing performance. Qualifications: - Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs using CMMS and reliability modeling tools. - Lead multi-site reliability improvement programs and capital planning. - Develop long-term asset management strategies aligned with business goals. - Serve as SME for reliability engineering during audits, vendor evaluations, and CAPEX projects. - Present reliability performance and cost-saving initiatives to senior leadership. - Drive adoption of advanced analytics, digital tools, and condition-based monitoring. - Partner with OEMs and engineering to improve equipment design to eliminate losses - Own and implement breakdown analysis system (BDA) in the factory - Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) for critical equipment. - Define, track, and improve reliability KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, downtime, cost per intervention). - Co...