Becton, Dickinson and Company

Equipment Reliability Leader

Becton, Dickinson and Company • $100K — $120K *
Sumter, SC 29150In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (preferred) or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of manufacturing experience in a highly automated environment, preferably in the medical devices industry.
  • 5+ years supervisory experience demonstrating effective team leadership.
  • 5+ years experience in applying reliability tools and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a technical understanding of reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Implement a reliability-centered maintenance strategy to reduce breakdowns and costs.
  • Evaluate site equipment classification and define maintenance strategies.
  • Partner with Product Line and PM teams to address complex breakdowns and provide coaching.
  • Ensure consistent processes and maintain awareness of improvement methodologies.
  • Oversee asset reliability documentation, including maintenance plans and manuals.
  • Monitor site MTTR and MTBF to identify asset priorities and required modifications.
  • Benchmark engineering and maintenance results against other sites and industry standards.

Benefits

  • Support for continuous improvement initiatives to maintain operational excellence.
  • Opportunities for leadership growth and team-building.
  • Emphasis on safe and proper utilization of materials and equipment.
  • Encouragement of collaboration across internal teams.
  • Focused on reducing maintenance costs and enhancing asset life cycle.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • 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.


Additional Responsibilities:
  • Build a High Performing reliability team that helps meet or exceed defined objectives (e.g. Maintenance cost, OEE, MTTR, MTBF)
  • Achieve high level asset reliability at optimal cost
  • Improve site asset life cycle


Requirements

Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience (preferred degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering)
  • Experience will be accepted in lieu of education
  • 10+ years of manufacturing experience in a highly automated environment required, preferably in the medical devices industry.
  • Proven leader with 5+ years of prior supervisory experience with a demonstrated ability to effectively lead a team.
  • 5+ years of proven experience in the application of reliability tools and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) preferred.


Knowledge and Skills:
  • Strong understanding of reliability-centered maintenance strategies and tools.
  • Excellent leadership and team-building skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to work with technical personnel and understand technical aspects of the role.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to read, write, and converse in English.
  • Willing and able to uphold BD Values.
  • Regular, punctual attendance is a crucial job function.
  • Ensure compliance with BD quality systems, policies, procedures, and standard methodologies, and all local, state, federal, and BD safety laws, policies, and procedures.


Work Environment:
  • BD is a smoke-free campus. Smoking and the use of electronic smoking devices, marijuana, or tobacco products are not allowed on BD property, grounds or in the parking areas. We appreciate your cooperation in adhering to this policy
  • False eyelashes, press-on fingernails, and Jewelry is not allowed on the production floor including dermals. Any associate wearing dermals will be required to cover them while working on the production floor.
  • Shoes are required to be Steel Toe and non-slip for all associates while on the production floor for safety purposes.


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Primary Work Location
USA SC - Sumter

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Size
75,000 employees
Market Cap
$72 billion
Industry
Healthcare
Net Income
$1.6 billion
Founded
1897
5 Year Trend
+9.3%
Revenue
$18.2 billion
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