Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer

Airbus Aerosystems is looking for a Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering department based in Kinston, NC.

The Industrial Maintenance organization provides corrective and preventative maintenance across a broad range of installed assets and hand tools within the Kinston Plant. The assets include mechanical and electrical CNC machinery, conventional production machinery, Jigs and Tools, industrial autoclaves and automated guided vehicles. Asset age ranges from new equipment, up to 15 years old. The Industrial Maintenance strategy requires enhanced technical support to develop the internal competence to deliver comprehensive asset care.

Reporting to the Ho J&T, Robotics, Des, Acq & Maint, the Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring legislative compliance and for leading improvements in asset safety, reliability and availability.

Our team at Airbus Aerosystems Kinston manufactures crucial aircraft components. On the shop floor you'll be surrounded by individuals who are passionate about aviation and skilled in areas like electrical, structure and quality. Join our team and help build the next generation of aircraft.

The Airbus Aerosystems Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.

We offer:

• Competitive pay, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a paid parental leave program.
• Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path; as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programs; and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

• Define the maintenance strategy for the new technologies within the new Airbus Aerostructures in the Kinston Plant
• Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Airbus Aerostructures in the Kinston Plant
• Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
• Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
• Manage effective asset performance measurement.
• Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
• Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
• Develop and deploy the maintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.

Main Activities

• Ensure 'best in class' safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.
• Maintain a 'safety first' culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a 'champion for safety'.
• Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies.
• Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
• Maintain compliance with Airbus procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (), Airbus Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape.
• Support in developing, deploying and maintaining the Maintenance Plan for all assets in scope.
• Lead Total Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget.
• Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
• Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
• Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
• Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
• Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability.
• Project manage simple, low cost refurbishment projects.
• Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
• Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
• Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices.
• Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability.
• Maintain the standard of Asset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
• Working with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services.
• Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans. Lead technical problem…