Our client is ranked among the top five companies in 2008 in the Forest and Paper Products sector of Fortune magazine's annual report of "America's Most Admired Companies." Newpage Corporation is the largest printing papers company in North America. Of its 11 mills the Port Hawkesbury, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia mill houses some of the highest levels of papermaking technologies in the world.

Today we have an opportunity for a Reliability-Vibration Analyst.  The successful candidate will collect, monitor, and record the performance of all plant rotating equipment for the condition monitoring department to increase machine reliability using vibration, ultrasonic, thermo-graphic and oil analysis techniques.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Perform duties safely and in conformance with applicable codes and OHSA regulations.
• Work with maintenance planners and technicians in planning maintenance and preventative maintenance tasks.
• Troubleshoot performance problems with data analysis and calculations and recommend corrective actions as required.
• Track equipment usage from PI system and from the DCS as a performance monitoring tool.
• Write guidelines that will be incorporated in operating and/or maintenance procedures.
• Develop tactics and strategies that will allow plant equipment to achieve optimum performance by maximizing reliability.
• Investigate mechanical failures or unexpected maintenance problems by using a combination of field work, interviewing operators/maintainers and use of DCS tools.
• Conduct formal root cause analyses, write and distribute reports and implement results.
• Monitor maintenance performed on plant equipment by visiting the field and talking to maintenance personnel for the purposes of determining more reliable solutions to failures and worn equipment.
• Conduct acceptance testing of new machinery.

Position Requirements:

• Mechanical or electrical trade certificate.
• CMVA (Canadian Machinery Vibration Association) level 2 – 3 vibration analyst or equivalent.
• 5 or more years working with industrial rotating equipment.
• 3 years experience using advanced vibration, ultrasonic, oil analysis techniques, or other reliability field type activities.
• Experience in paper manufacturing will be considered an asset.
• Experience with Entek – Emonitor 3.3 and Metso – Sensodec 6S systems considered an asset.
• Experience in Field balancing techniques considered an asset.
• Well developed communication skills.
• Ability to work and excel in a flexible team environment.
• Knowledge and experience in Thermo-Mechanical Pulping and Paper production is considered an asset.

This opportunity offers a competitive hourly rate in accordance with the current collective agreement, health and medical benefits, relocation benefit assistance, training and opportunity for technical and management career growth.

Click Here to Apply Online
         
Background:

David Aplin Recruiting is a winner of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies program for 2007, sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC Commercial Banking, National Post and Queen's School of Business. Founded in 1975, David Aplin Recruiting is Canada's national full-service search firm, having placed more than 25,000 great candidates with over 2000 great companies. We specialize in placing permanent, temporary and contract professionals in Accounting and Finance, Engineering and Technical, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain Management and Office Personnel. We have offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa and Halifax, plus affiliate offices in Montréal and the U.S.