Knauf Insulation North America is the world's fastest-growing insulation manufacturer. We are wholly committed to the conservation of the environment while also sustainably developing and manufacturing a comprehensive line of acoustical fiberglass insulation for residential, commercial, industrial, marine, OEM and metal building applications, using post-consumer recycled materials.

We welcome passionate and creative individuals who thrive in an entrepreneurial, collaborative and ever-changing environment.

We know how important your health, wellbeing, and financial strength is to you. To support you, we provide affordable benefits for you and your family members.

 "Supporting all aspects of the individual — self, health, wealth and community”

Our benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision – starting on day one!
• Virtual Medical Services
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (earn 100% matching on your first 6% and fully vested day one)
• Paid parental leave
• Company paid life insurance
• Vacation time to enjoy getting away
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Plus, more!

Growth opportunities available! 

Apply online or contact us to hear why our employees appreciate being part of the Knauf family!

Summary of Position: 

As a Reliability Engineer, you are responsible for guiding efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems. Identifying and managing asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. This broad primary role includes loss elimination, risk management and life cycle asset management.

You must be located in or near one of our US locations.

Albion, MI 

Lanett, AL

Inwood, WV

McGregor, TX

Shasta Lake, CA

Shelbyville, IN 

• Works with Maintenance team to ensure the reliability and maintainability of current equipment.
• Provides leadership, technical assistance and guidance to all reliability and maintenance interfacing team members
• Works with team to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans.
• Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical maintenance service providers.
• Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Participates in the final check-out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an asset maintenance plan that includes:
• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks.
• Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
• Lead RCM, PMO and other asset strategy definition activities
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility, the reliability engineer applies data analysis techniques that can include:
• Statistical process control
• Reliability modeling and prediction
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
• Lean Manufacturing tools and principals
• Root Cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
• Performs analyses of assets including:
• Asset Utilization
• Overall Equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability, reliability and costs of assets
• Provides technical support to production maintenance and technical personnel
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/design and make/buy decisions * Approves, updates, supports in the management of engineering records, drawings, documentation and the like.

Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Experience:

• Minimum three (3) to five (5) years maintenance engineering or
• Reliability experience in an industrial manufacturing environment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Working knowledge of SAP PM module
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection (i.e. vibration analysis, oil monitoring, thermography) as well as the software associated with the predictive tools.
• Knowledge of reliability improvement strategies
• Knowledge of TPM and other maintenance continuos improvement activities
• Knowledge of Operations Analysis
• Knowledge of production and processing techniques
• Knowledge of inventory processes and procedures
• Knowledge of specialty equipment and systems, uses and applications
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements in a similar environment
• Computer skills in MS Windows environment; proficient in Word, PowerPoint and Excel

It is the policy of Knauf Insulation to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic prohibited by applicable law.