Staff or Senior Reliability Engineer

About Us

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage, and other industries, operating from more than 30 locations around the world. Through large scale, efficient manufacturing plants, Tate & Lyle turns raw materials into distinctive, high-quality ingredients. These ingredients and solutions add taste, texture, nutrition, and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day. We are the secret ingredient to Make Food Extraordinary in some of the world’s best loved brands. Could you be ours?

Role Purpose

The Reliability Engineer is an integral part of the Manufacturing Group’s daily operations.  This role is located at our McIntosh, Alabama facility.  An engineering career at Tate & Lyle may include an assignment at more than one location with the opportunity for international assignments. The Reliability Engineer role was designed to provide technical support to maximize the performance and life cycle of the plant’s operational assets.  The Reliability Engineer plays a key role in the maintenance and reliability team ensuring the site maintains a reliability culture and in the long-term a reduction in asset lifecycle cost.  He/she is responsible for growing the preventive and predictive maintenance programs with the goal of maximizing equipment reliability and uptime. This individual manages projects which increase asset reliability and deliver lower maintenance costs over time.

EHSQS-The Reliability Engineer is accountable for implementation and adherence requirements of the Tate and Lyle environmental health, safety, quality (Food Safety), and security system for the sucralose team. 

Safety Accountabilities – EHS Critical Role Level 2

Protecting our people and the environment is foundational to our business

Level 2 – Key Role

• Drive EHS Excellence Culture and Improvements in Area of Responsibility
• Focus on EHS Systems, Policies & Procedures and their effects on day to day operations
• Audit and Review EHS effectiveness in area

As a key member of the McIntosh Operations Team incumbent shares overall responsibility for:

• Leading, modelling, and area accountability of adherence to global / local EHS Policy and Procedures
• Meeting individual objectives and targets for EHS performance and improvement
• Assigning responsibility and authority for EHS activities
• Providing the adequate resources needed to implement the policy
• Ensuring knowledge and skills are developed to effectively apply the EHS systems and standards
• Reviewing the EHS system to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness
• Actively communicating leadership and commitment that is visible to the organization

Each team member is expected to support the Tate & Lyle culture where Environment, Health and Safety are the overriding values in all activities. Every team member is accountable for working safely and complying with all EHS policies, procedures and regulations relevant to their work and is expected to speak up and intervene to prevent unsafe conditions and to respect fellow workers and the communities in which we work.  Included in this is abidance with our Life Saving Principles (LSPs) and our STOP WORK AUTHORITY which are developed to strengthen our workplace safety, prevent serious injury or loss of life.

Main Accountabilities

The incumbent will

• Promote a safe work environment by setting an excellent example and exhibiting a strong commitment to safety.
• Primary ownership of Preventive Maintenance program development, optimization, and content.
• Serves as a key technical resource for the site on: Predictive Maintenance technologies, non-destructive testing, lubrication selection, Root Cause Failure Analysis, and Reliability Centered Maintenance.
• Optimizes and manages the Predictive Maintenance Program at the site.
• Provides troubleshooting support using predictive maintenance technologies and technical expertise, as needed.
• Champions the RCFA process and leads team efforts to analyze equipment failures and identifies changes required to prevent recurrence.
• Manages capital and expense projects to implement RCFA follow up actions, improve reliability of plant assets, and lower maintenance costs.
• Works with project engineers and operations teams to ensure reliability of new and modified assets, while minimizing total lifecycle costs
• Works with reliability coordinator and maintenance technicians to improve lubrication and predictive maintenance processes.
• Provides support to reliability coordinator for preventive maintenance optimization initiatives.
• Works directly with plant personnel at all levels to improve knowledge, techniques, and procedures which affect equipment reliability.
• Works closely with equipment vendors, repair facilities, and onsite maintenance team to ensure properly source equipment and repair techniques utilized.
• Communicates with other Maintenance & Reliability organizations (both internal and external) to share in benchmarking, best practices, etc.
• Develops and implements training to build the reliability culture and continuously improve.
• Works closely with engineering and maintenance team to ensure critical spare parts are properly sourced and maintained.
• Competent working in SAP for work notification reporting/tracking, PM scheduling, asset linked spare parts, and CAPEX functions.

Performance Measures

The incumbent will be measured against site EHS, Quality, Production, Reliability and Leadership goals

Skills and Experience Required 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• 4 - 6 years experience in reliability engineering.
• Strong expertise in reliability concepts, PdM technologies, and RCA
• Demonstrated ability to work well with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and troubleshoot equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and implement projects which improve the reliability of assets.
• Experience using root cause analysis, and predictive maintenance technologies (vibration, motion amplification, infrared, acoustic, etc.)
• Strong mechanical aptitude and understanding of process equipment and components (e.g., pumps, fans, dryers, mills, blowers, conveyors, bearings, gearboxes, motors, seals, etc.)
• Knowledgeable in use of SAP maintenance preferred.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Preferred experience with continuous improvement concepts

Tate & Lyle complies with all local/state regulations requiring salary range transparency.

When determining final compensation, we take into consideration: skillset, job scope, knowledge, prior experience, cost of living, market data, budget availability, and other factors as permitted by law.

The pay range for this position is: $95,000 - $130,600.

In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes but is not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, Vision coverages
• Paid time off package, including vacation, sick time, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• 401K with company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Additional benefits at not cost to employee such as:  Lifestyle Spending Account, Identity Theft protection, Employee Assistance Program, telemedicine and more!

In addition to your Total Rewards, culture and ED&I are very important to Tate & Lyle.  We offer multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that support various communities.

EEO Statement:

Tate & Lyle will base all of its employment decisions on job-related standards and its commitment to equal employment opportunity (EEO). Tate & Lyle will ensure that promotion decisions are made in accordance with the principles of EEO by imposing only valid requirements for promotional opportunities. Tate & Lyle will also ensure that all other human resource matters such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, return from layoff, company-sponsored training, education, and social and recreational programs are administered without regard to an employee's race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, disability, age, sexual orientation, status as a covered veteran, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

The successful attainment of equal employment opportunity requires the maximum cooperation of all employees. All managers and supervisors are responsible for implementing and enforcing this Policy. In addition, all other employees are expected to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that supports equal employment opportunity for all.

California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA")

The Company is committed to complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and all data privacy and laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. We collect the following categories of personal information for the purpose of hiring the best qualified applicants and to comply with applicable employment laws: Name and contact information; Job preference and work availability; Social Security Number and/or other identification information; Education and qualifications; Employment history and experience; Military service; Reference and background check information, including relevant criminal history and credit history; Social media information; Pre-employment test results; Post-offer medical examination information and results, including drug test results; Voluntary self-disclosure information regarding minority, veteran, and disability status; and Information provided by you during the hiring process.

Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.