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COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Balchem Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets specialty ingredients that improve and enhance the health and well-being of life on the planet, providing state-of-the-art solutions and the finest quality products for a range of industries worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is located in Montvale, New Jersey and we have a broad network of sales offices, manufacturing sites, and R&D centers, primarily located in the US and Europe. Founded in 1967, Balchem is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ – “BCPC”) with annual revenues over $900 million and a market cap exceeding $4.0 billion. The company consists of three business segments: Human Nutrition & Health; Animal Nutrition & Health; and Specialty Products. Balchem employs over 1,400 people worldwide who are engaged in diverse activities, committed to developing the company into global market leadership positions. To learn more about our dynamic, stable and growing company, visit www.balchem.com.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This role will report to the Director of Process & Reliability and has the option of being based out of our St. Louis, MO or Faribault, MN locations. The Senior Regional Reliability Manager position provides strategic ownership of the Reliability and Maintenance programs with responsibilities spanning 10 plant locations throughout the Midwestern and Western United States.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• The Senior Regional Reliability Manager will maintain and improve performance of the company’s physical assets and monitor maintenance labor and material costs to achieve plant performance goals.
• Drives improvement of maintenance and reliability performance/ work processes using KPIs.
• Accountable for all site maintenance (routine and turnarounds) and reliability projects.
• This position requires considerable interaction with plant leadership teams, engineering, corporate functional leadership, external support, and contractors.
• Perform monthly bad actor “Equipment Failure Analysis” causing plant downtime to review / stablish the maintenance strategy and improvements proposals to eliminate the asset highest failure rate by organizing and facilitating site RCPS workshops within the site maintenance team.
• Develops and implements the annual strategic objectives and budget for the maintenance organization to support the directives for the plant and monitors performance and cost effectiveness to meet goals.
• Monitors maintenance and reliability spend across the region including labor, parts, and equipment; identifies trends and leads gap correction efforts.
• Ensures the integrity and maintenance of all plant assets, including production equipment, facilities, utility equipment, and grounds.
• Ensure capture and analysis of maintenance data and equipment work histories to support work of the site Maintenance Reliability engineers.
• Selects, manages and works jointly with engineering or construction personnel in performing building structural, plant process, or other construction projects to make sure they conform to specifications and code requirements that necessary permits have been obtained, proper materials are on hand, and that projects proceed on schedule; may, from time to time, coordinates scheduling of and supervises work activities of contractors performing approved capital projects for the company; evaluates contractor work, sets expectations with contractor for safety performance, and ensures security of confidential information.
• Leads implementation of spare parts inventory program best practices and ensures sustainment of stock management discipline.
• Prepares activity reports, project proposals and cost analysis of replacing or repairing machinery, structures or other equipment as directed.
• Review and optimize asset criticality, equipment maintenance strategies preventive, predictive and non-interventive strategies, and emergent work protocols.
• Ensures proactive (preventive and predictive) work strategies (frequency, task lists and critical parts) are aligned with asset criticality analyses to ensure the most efficient and effective maintenance processes.
• Assesses and recommend vendor and 3rd party maintenance services as necessary.
• Conducts and facilitates Root Cause Failure Analysis for significant or repeat equipment failures, including FMEA as needed, and implements the maintenance strategy improvements to eliminate recurrence.
• Ensures best practice utilization of CMMS systems including preventive and predictive maintenance procedures, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the dataset and files.
• Ensures best practice implementation and sustainment of workflow processes including but not limited to the effectiveness and efficiency of work request, work order creation, planning, kitting, scheduling, execution and work quality/closure.
• Review and analyze data from inspections for information on equipment reliability issues on request of site maintenance engineers.
• Analyzes CMMS data to improve equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs and ensures visibility of performance to site managers.
• Provides reliability and maintenance input on capital projects to guide project team on reliability and maintainability of the equipment. Provides input on the technical check out, equipment check out and commissioning of new assets. Ensures project related changes in equipment strategies and equipment specifications are updated in the CMMS database.
• Provides technical expertise for PSM and mechanical integrity programs.
• Provides benchmark/industry data for reliability improvement.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years in Maintenance and Reliability
• Ability to build strategic relationships with key stakeholders across the operation to ensure improved collaboration and deliver results.
• Experience using CMMS and ERP software.
• RCA and FMEA application experience.

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