Equipment Reliability Engineer

Position Summary

Equipment Reliability Engineer – Columbus West – JG3 – Engineering. This self‑directed role is responsible for developing and maintaining optimized maintenance plans, using reliability tools and techniques. It promotes continual optimization of site asset performance and reduces costly breakdowns. The engineer will develop strategies that improve overall equipment reliability and safety of associates while improving operational processes, handling multiple projects/programs and keeping to key deliverables.

The role ensures compliance with BD quality systems, policies, procedures and best practices, as well as all local, state, federal and BD safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. The position requires reading, writing, and conversing in English and alignment with BD values.

• Provides expertise in reliability of systems and equipment in use and investment projects.
• Facilitate the site asset criticality evaluation.
• Develop and enforces the maintenance strategy aligned with BDPS.
• Use the appropriate tools and processes for criticality assessment, risk base analysis, maintenance plan development, diagnosis, and root cause analysis.
• Develop and enforces the site technical standards.
• Analyze maintenance data to trigger improvement projects and improve the life cycle of site assets.
• Support the maintaining of up-to-date knowledge and awareness of improvement methodologies and new techniques in maintenance engineering and their relevance to the site operations, including safety requirements, recommendations to ensure continuous improvements in equipment performance and availability as well as integration of maintenance best practices for BD equipment reliability for asset utilization.
• Facilitate the definition of site maintenance strategies, procedures, and methods, aligning with maintenance budget and assets criticality.
• Validate the application of criteria for developing and accepting new or modified assets and ensures optimal availability, maintainability, and reliability of new equipment as well as assets documentation, including manuals, schemes and other related documents, maintenance plans.
• Coordinate the development and update of maintenance plans and spare part classification including the upload on the CMMS, providing the support for maintenance planning/scheduling and spare part management.
• Support the Process Engineer to diagnose high‑complexity breakdown issues.
• Coach the Maintenance Team and other related roles to investigate all significant and repetitive failures to identify causes and initiate corrective actions as well as other reliability tools.
• Promote BD Best Practice Networks, DPM and Asset Care culture.
• Participate in staff development, defining training and skill development.
• Train and support staff on maintenance and reliability tools.
• Ensure failure analysis results with optimization of the maintenance plans.
• Monitor and control nonvalue added, MTTR, MTBF, failure trends and maintenance costs to identify priorities, trigger re‑evaluation of criticality, possible asset modification or decommissioning required. Ensure up to date key process indicators and actions.
• Conduct regular audits.
• Analysis and optimizes preventive and corrective maintenance processes considering constraints and needs of other functions.
• Ensure that effective performance review is in place and that measurement and review drives continuous improvement projects.
• Follow new technologies to develop appropriate solutions for the site, anticipate changes and optimize investment and running costs.
• Ensures harmonization of processes, promotes, and enforces technical standards.
• Benchmark engineering and Maintenance results against other BD sites and external references.
• Other duties as required to support the needs of the business.

• High school diploma/GED required.
• Associate’s degree in relevant field required.
• Bachelor’s degree in science, industrial management, engineering, or related field preferred.
• In lieu of associate’s degree, five years technical or manufacturing experience required.

• Two years’ medical…