Job Description Summary

The Equipment Reliability Leader will be responsible for achieving a high-level asset reliability while optimizing costs through development and implementation of site-wide reliability program with a highly skilled team of equipment reliability engineers, controls and vision technicians and machine designers with oversight of the tool room. By building effective communication with other teams (e.g. PM team, Product Line team) and coordination of ongoing internal projects and activities for priority assets, the Equipment Reliability Leader will ensure an optimal maintenance plan is developed to address weak components and eliminate repetitive/costly breakdowns continuously optimizing assets.

Ensures compliance with BD quality systems, policies, procedures and best practices, and all local, state, federal and BD safety regulations, policies and procedures. Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English. Willing and able to uphold BD Values.

• Implement reliability centered maintenance strategy, provide leadership and expertise to reliability team and beyond to ensure eradication of significant and repetitive breakdowns, achieve high reliability and lower cost.
• Responsible for the site equipment classification evaluation and the definition of site maintenance strategies, procedures, and methods, aligning with maintenance budget and equipment classification.
• Maintains effective partnership and supports Product Line and PM teams to diagnose high-complexity breakdowns and provide coaching during root-cause investigation promoting reliability tools & techniques.
• Ensures harmonization of processes, promotes, and enforces technical standards maintaining up-to-date knowledge and awareness of improvement methodologies and new techniques in maintenance.
• Ensures optimal availability, maintainability, and reliability of new equipment as well as assets documentation, including manuals, schemes and other related documents, maintenance plans.
• Monitor and control site Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), failure trends and maintenance costs to identify priorities, possible asset modification or decommissioning required.
• Benchmark engineering and Maintenance results against other BD sites and external references.
• Actively participate and drive continuous improvement initiatives throughout organization including Change to Win (C2W) savings program to maintain a high level of operational excellence and contribute to site objectives by leading initiatives to reduce cost with spare parts.
• Coordinate the implementation of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) tools and techniques.
• Provides servant leadership and motivation to technical and hourly associates to achieve desired quality, quantity, service and cost standards through safe and proper utilization of materials and equipment
• Other duties as required to support the needs of the business.

• 5 years of manufacturing experience in a highly automated environment required
• 3 years of people leading experience preferred
• Education requirements: High School Diploma/GED: Required and ideally BA/BS Degree in Science, Industrial management, Engineering or a related field
• Proficiency in communication, teamwork, problem-solving, project management, planning and quality systems
• Strong financial acumen