http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/ Career Opportunities for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals en becky@netexpressusa.com 2008-07-03T02:31:11Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/maintenance_planner_salt_lake_city_utah_area/ Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC), a world-class mining and mineral processing company, in Salt Lake City, Utah is searching for a Maintenance Planner at its Bingham Canyon Mine. Kennecott is owned by Rio Tinto, a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London listed company, and Rio Tinto Limited, which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Rio Tinto’s business is finding, mining, and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminum, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa.  For more information, please visit http://www.riotinto.com. Providing approximately 15% of the domestic copper demand, Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC) is the second largest copper producer in the United States with 2007 revenues of $US 3.5 billion and net earnings of $US 1.8 billion.  KUCC operates the largest open pit copper mine in the world in addition to a concentrator, smelter, refinery, and tailings impoundment.  KUCC is committed to ensuring safety and sustainable development.  All KUCC operations, employing approximately 1700 people, are located in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. Job Description: - Ensure all work planned complies with Federal/State regulations and KUC Policies and Standards. - Provide safety information, job instructions, materials, special tools, and drawings as required. - Maintain the CMMS Equipment Register for all plant/area equipment. - Categorize resourced work and prioritize work orders within CMMS. - Coordinate with Maintenance Engineers on Equipment Downtime Summary Report. - Maintain and assist in developing standard jobs. - Develop and maintain standard job Application Parts Lists (APLs) for multiple areas. - Identify man-hours required and available for planned-work activities. - Coordinate material and component deliveries and arrange for any special tools, equipment, drawings, and other needs prior to commencement of scheduled jobs. - Provide maintenance and plant equipment performance reports as required. - Review maintenance backlog and identify work to accomplish in order to establish priorities. - Validate procedures, identification of materials, crafts, and man-hours required. Education/Experience/Skill Requirements: - B.S. Degree in engineering or a related field - preferred (Related work experience and education considered in lieu of four-year degree) - Knowledge of heavy mobile equipment maintenance - preferred - Excellent communication skills, both oral and written - required - Demonstrated safety conscious approach to work - Proven ability to operate independently and in small multi-discipline teams - Strong analytical, estimating, organizational, and prioritization skills - Good planning and project management skills - Computer skills-including word processing, database, and spreadsheet programs - Must be proficient in Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) - Ellipse and SAP experience preferred Kennecott offers competitive compensation as well as excellent benefits, multiple and varied opportunities for growth and advancement, and the opportunity to be involved in exciting, leading-edge projects with one of the most progressive and forward-thinking companies in the industry. A competitive compensation and generous benefits package including retirement and 401(k) plans will be offered to the preferred candidate. Physical, drug screen, reference, education and background checks will be conducted. Qualified candidates should apply online by visiting http://www.riotinto.com/careers or click HERE. Position is open until filled. Equal Opportunity Employer Reliability Archivist 2008-07-03T02:31:11Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/lead_mechanical_engineer_reliability_maintenance_murray_hill_new_jersey/ Responsibilities: As a member of the business unit Reliability Engineering Team, help ensure that all BU plants satisfy contractual and legislative requirements by implementing best practice operating and maintenance strategies that result in required reliability performance of plant machinery and systems at optimal cost.  He/she challenges the status quo and maintains a working environment of continuous improvement across field operations and BU mechanical staff • Establish a culture of safety in working with field operations and service providers. Ensure management of change, EMOC, followed for equipment modifications. • Participate in outage and major maintenance and capital spares planning by providing leadership in deciding scopes based on equipment condition information and history • Work with Field Operations and SM to identify regional vendor support needs, and to ensure that all maintenance and supply agreements are properly managed. Assess technical competency of contractors and service providers. • Work with P&DM team and use the CMMS system to manage maintenance activities and to analyze equipment reliability data in order to determine gaps, set appropriate KPI’s, and to drive improvement in the areas of greatest impact. • Implement and support regional training initiatives and develop/deliver local training materials • Represent the regions reliability interests as BU owner’s machinery engineer in the proposal and commercialization process, including scope/spares decisions, installation, commissioning and new plant acceptance • Actively participate in cross BU ME peer team interaction, contribute, lend support when needed, and benchmark performance of mechanical equipment and systems both internally and externally. Apply best business practice to the GBU and other regional business units to advance machinery reliability on a global basis. • Support local and global geographies on emergent rotating equipment issues and catastrophic failures.  Able to work independently without support of OEM’s. • Draft reliability and maintenance procedures for IMSS publication; review and approve the application of local mechanical equipment/systems PM’s, work instructions. • Supervise the rectification of failed equipment including determination of root cause failure, key decision making for correction and actions regarding other like equipment in the BU as indicated. Provide mechanical design contacts as needed for failure analysis and any needed mechanical design analysis or redesign. Participate in failure analysis reporting. • Develop programs and methods to ensure that machinery is operated at optimum efficiency.  Work with the Plant Engineering Team, Remote Operations Center, and others to deliver savings as indicated. • In conjunction with maintenance planner, implement techniques to determine state of mechanical equipment and operations at individual sites. Ensure through condition review that any gaps found are appropriately addressed, needed inspections scheduled. • Participate in expert user panels and maintain network of industry best practice and service providers.  Stay abreast of latest equipment design, monitoring, and service trends to determine opportunities verse the existing machinery portfolio.  Provide business case justification and engineering solutions for such changes. Translate network knowledge into local application. • Develop and implement audit tools and techniques to determine state of mechanical equipment and operations at individual sites.  Ensure that any gaps found are appropriately actioned and followed up on to conclusion. Requirements/Education • Minimum 15 years experience (at least five years in an operation environment) with specific expertise in general mechanical systems, such as rotating equipment, pumps, turbines, and compressors, reciprocating compressors and associated auxiliary equipment, refrigeration systems, steam systems, heat exchangers, and adsorption systems/dryers.  General expertise required in gas or steam driven power generation equipment including HRSG, related control systems and electrical interfaces. • Mechanical engineering degree required.  Professional qualifications and licensing preferred.  • Strong analytical, quantitative, leadership and influencing skills • Ability to work as a team leader, team member, or independent contributor • Excellent reasoning skills with ability to analyze and interpret technical information • Experience in development and review of engineering standards • Direct experience with large centrifugal compressors up to 25 MW, including their control and protection systems. • Knowledge of internal and relevant industry standards • Ability to reason complex technical issues independently or with other support • In depth-knowledge of predictive and preventative maintenance techniques including the use of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) to manage these processes • Understanding of thermodynamics, aerodynamics, vibration analysis, machine dynamics, manufacturing methods • Excellent oral and written communication skills Interested candidates please contact Bret Freeman at bretfreeman@spherion.com or directly 866.384.5004. Please also apply directly using the following link: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_spherionta/external/gateway.do?functionName=applyFromLink&jobPostId=10613&localeCode=en-us&sourceType=PREMIUM_POST_SITE&source=FREE_SITES Reliability Archivist 2008-07-01T16:54:25Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/maintenance_manager_florence_co/ Join a Global Industry Leader who uses innovative technology and sustainability practices throughout its operations.  As a billion dollar leader, we invite you to bring us your expertise, leadership and desire to learn. Holcim (US) has an immediate opening for a Maintenance Manager - An innovative leader with heavy industrial maintenance and reliability experience who will help shape the culture and direction for our plant in Florence, CO. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelors degree Engineering (Mechanical Engineering preferred) and minimum of 5-10 years of maintenance and reliability management level experience in a heavy industrial environment, cement industry experience.  Candidate should have proven leadership abilities and excellent communication, decision-making and problem solving skills with an orientation towards maintenance planning and reliability-centered maintenance.  This critical team member will have strong skills in creating, planning, organizing and executing long range objectives to ensure continued department area efficiency and effectiveness; flexible and able to adjust to changing priorities; Able to facilitate the collaboration of people in maintenance area; champion of change; recognized change agent with the ability to motivate others towards a vision of the future; and demonstrated track record of managing the business and delivering results. This Maintenance Manager, with a drive for strong leadership, team building and communication, will be accountable for these key responsibilities: • Provide leadership, guidance, and direction for the maintenance organization in a manner consistent with company values, and ensure alignment with plant and company goals. • Coordinated approach to preparing all employees to safely operate and maintain a large cement plant. • Visible leader and unwavering support for Holcim’s safety, health, and environmental policies. • Key member of plant leadership team whose responsibilities include determining improvement opportunities and setting achievable goals for the site.  • Management and overall results within maintenance area based on defined KPI´s.  This includes development of area budgets, capital requirements, major maintenance projects and implementation plans.  • Creating, implementing, and monitoring reliability based systems including preventative maintenance systems, vibration analysis and condition monitoring. • Create, plan, organize and execute short and long range objectives to ensure continued operational excellence of plant equipment. • Day-to-day execution and accountability of electrical and specialty mechanical maintenance and reliability functions with coordinated execution for maintenance area. • Use Holcim systems, such as MAC, SAP, PMA, CBM, etc., to optimize overall equipment effectiveness at the lowest sustainable cost of maintenance. • Support, demonstrate, and facilitate the concepts of development and involvement of employees, continuous learning and continuous improvement in a values based high performance organization. To be considered for this position, qualified candidates can submit their resume on-line at http://www.holcim.com/US or via e-mail address careers-us@holcim.com and reference CAAR in the subject line of the e-mail. Holcim (US) Inc., with annual sales of over $1.1 billion, is one of the nation’s leading manufacturers and distributors of cement and mineral components.  The company is a subsidiary of Holcim Ltd, of Switzerland, one of the world’s leading suppliers of cement, aggregates (gravel and sand), concrete and construction-related services. An Equal Opportunity Employer Reliability Archivist 2008-07-01T01:15:13Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/maintenance_advisor_salt_lake_city_utah/ Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC), a world-class mining and mineral processing company, in Salt Lake City, Utah is searching for a Maintenance Advisor in their Asset Management group. Kennecott is owned by Rio Tinto, a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London listed company, and Rio Tinto Limited, which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Rio Tinto’s business is finding, mining, and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminum, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa.  For more information, please visit http://www.riotinto.com Providing approximately 15% of the domestic copper demand, Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC) is the second largest copper producer in the United States with 2007 revenues of $US 3.5 billion and net earnings of $US 1.8 billion.  KUCC operates the largest open pit copper mine in the world in addition to a concentrator, smelter, refinery, and tailings impoundment.  KUCC is committed to ensuring safety and sustainable development.  All KUCC operations, employing approximately 1700 people, are located in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. Position Description: The Maintenance Advisor leads improvement initiatives targeting leading practice work management in the operations/maintenance work cycles at all Kennecott sites, facilitating effective, productive and efficient operations. The role has significant collaborative aspects that require relationship building with and amongst Asset Management professionals and managers across Kennecott, at other Rio Tinto business units and with Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation Asset Integrity. The position uses leadership and technical/functional competence to influence teams of managers, engineers, operators, and maintainers in support of the work management goals and objectives. Responsibilities: Apply advanced maintenance technical/functional expertise Identify, develop, and maintain Kennecott maintenance standards such as work order discipline,planning, scheduling, materials management, preventive/predictive strategies, zero-basedbudgeting, etc. Continually consult with Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation to identify collaborative opportunities Identify and work with proper outside subject matter experts when needed Assist in identifying value opportunities, making presentations / proposals addressing quality Coach team members and support improving organization competence levels generally Consult with teams of Asset Management professionals and assists with improvement initiatives Assist sites in program, system, and tool selection to improve work management and value creation Maintain awareness of all improvement activities and ensure proper integration and cooperation with the other initiatives Education/Experience/Skill Requirements: An engineering degree is desirable (not required).  Mechanical, Electrical, and Reliability Engineers are typical.  Experienced Chemical, Metallurgical, etc. engineers will be considered Extensive technical knowledge/experience (6 - 12 years) in Asset Management positions Experience with complex problem identification, solution development and action implementation. Experience in advancing modern asset management philosophies / programs Certification for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP) as given by the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals is viewed favorably Experience with work management, preventive maintenance, condition based / predictive maintenance (vibration, tribology, infrared, ultrasonics, etc.), business improvement techniques (Lean / Six Sigma), Strong skills in the areas of leadership, team management, and change management/stakeholder management Kennecott offers competitive compensation as well as excellent benefits, multiple and varied opportunities for growth and advancement, and the opportunity to be involved in exciting, leading-edge projects with one of the most progressive and forward-thinking companies in the industry. A competitive compensation and generous benefits package including retirement and 401(k) plans will be offered to the preferred candidate. Physical, drug screen, reference, education and background checks will be conducted. The salary range is $110K and up Qualified candidates should apply online by visiting http://www.riotinto.com/careers or follow the link below: https://riotinto.taleo.net/careersection/4/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=USA0003V Position is open until filled. Equal Opportunity Employer Reliability Archivist 2008-06-27T19:03:39Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/predictive_maintenance_boonville_indiana2/ 2 years experience required Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional preferred Vibration analysis - Level II certification preferred. SKF software knowledge a plus Thermo Imaging and lubrication Motor Analysis - PdMA software knowledge a plus Mechanical Engineering degree or related field preferred, but not required Advanced computer skills – spreadsheets, word processing and database software Good Organization and management skills required. Customer Site work - Some Travel required. We are looking for someone to grow and manage this product offering. EOE Send Resume to: applicantresume@yahoo.com Reliability Archivist 2008-06-27T16:49:53Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/mechanical_electrical_personnel_md_and_pa7/ Maintenance Strategies Inc. is a leading professional services and software company focused on establishing Condition Based Maintenance programs and enhancing advanced asset management practices.  Maintenance Strategies Inc. seeks highly motivated individuals skilled in the Mechanical and/or Electrical trades with predictive maintenance ambitions.  Maintenance Strategies Inc. will provide training which could include collecting and analyzing PDM diagnostic data.  Technology training and job tasks could include Vibration Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Oil Analysis, Ultrasonic Testing/Leak Detection and Electric System/Motor diagnostics.  Requirements include excellent communication skills, an understanding of maintenance processes, and a customer-oriented and flexible attitude. High level of abstractive capacity and good verbal and written skills are prized.  Positions are available in the (a) Bethesda, Maryland and (b) King of Prussia, Pennsylvania areas.  Please send resume to both careers@msicorp.com and to Maintenance Strategies Inc.,1150 First Ave, Suite 930, King of Prussia, PA 19406 Reliability Archivist 2008-06-26T17:08:11Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/program_manager_md_and_pa7/ Maintenance Strategies Inc. is a leading professional services and software company focused on establishing Condition Based Maintenance programs and enhancing advanced asset management practices.  The position will include Program Management responsibilities to implement the various processes that are components of an advanced CBM program, including definition of tasks, assignment of responsibilities to key personnel and assessment of program results.  The position will act as the point of contact for the client and the project teams and maintain an overview of project developments and activities. Requirements include excellent communication skills, experience in managing contracts/budgets, and a customer-oriented and flexible attitude. High level of abstractive capacity and good verbal and written skills are prized.  Positions are available in the (a) Bethesda, Maryland and (b) King of Prussia, Pennsylvania areas.  Please send resume to both careers@msicorp.com and to Maintenance Strategies Inc.,1150 First Ave, Suite 930, King of Prussia, PA 19406 Reliability Archivist 2008-06-26T17:07:17Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/pdm_technician_md_and_pa7/ Maintenance Strategies Inc. is a leading professional services and software company focused on establishing Condition Based Maintenance programs and enhancing advanced asset management practices.  The position will be responsible for (a) collecting diagnostic data, or defining diagnostic data to be collected and (b) analyzing, or training customers to analyze, the diagnostic data.  Applicable technology experience could include:  Vibration Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Oil Analysis, Ultrasonic Testing/Leak Detection or Electric System/Motor diagnostics.  Requirements include excellent communication skills, an understanding of maintenance processes, and a customer-oriented and flexible attitude. High level of abstractive capacity and good verbal and written skills are prized.  Positions are available in the (a) Bethesda, Maryland and (b) King of Prussia, Pennsylvania areas.  Please send resume to both careers@msicorp.com and to Maintenance Strategies Inc.,1150 First Ave, Suite 930, King of Prussia, PA 19406 Reliability Archivist 2008-06-26T17:06:23Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/vibration_apprentice_memphis_tn/ Allied Reliability, Inc. has a Vibration Technician position open in the PdM technology field. This position is located at a Corn Milling facility in Memphis, TN. Primary duties will be vibration data collection, analysis and technical reporting, and maintaining accurate, up-to-date predictive maintenance database programs. Candidates should have a minimum of Level I Vibration Certification or equivalent experience, be self motivated, detail oriented, and results driven. Relocation packages and company paid technical training available. If interested, e-mail your resume to Carla Peters at petersc@alliedreliability.com Reliability Archivist 2008-06-25T22:10:26Z http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/viblog/program_manager_eddyville_ia/ Allied Reliability is seeking candidates for the Program Manager position located at the Cargill Corn Milling facililty in Eddyville, Iowa. This position is responsible for providing communication between the company, clients, and employees.  The Program Manager coordinates activities and schedules work as needed as well as prepares the necessary reports and audits required. The Program Manager will be accountable for the overall safety of the work environment for the crew, including ensuring compliance with Allied, client, OSHA, and other applicable standards, as well as oversight of the Behavioral Based Safety Observations.  Requirements include: CMRP certification or certification obtained within the first year. Knowledge of machinery fundamentals, including pumps, motors, gearboxes, blowers, compressors, etc. Detailed knowledge of general mechanical fundamentals, such as fits and tolerances. Strong understanding of electro-mechanical fundamentals, as well as predictive and preventative maintenance tools. Working knowledge of routine and advanced data acquisition techniques. Knowledge in spectral, time waveform and phase analysis. Working knowledge of other condition monitoring technologies, including oil analysis, thermography, motor current analysis and ultrasonics, and their integration with vibration analysis. Four or more years of directly related supervisory experience If interested please forward a resume to Carla Peters at petersc@alliedreliability.com or by fax to (812) 43-5905 Reliability Archivist 2008-06-25T22:09:40Z