Facilities Reliability Engineer

Facilities Reliability Engineer at Exact Sciences summary:

The Facilities Reliability Engineer ensures safe and efficient operation of facility systems such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and refrigeration through proactive engineering and reliability principles. This role involves monitoring building automation systems, performing root cause analysis, optimizing maintenance strategies, and leading cross-functional initiatives to improve system performance and reduce downtime. The position requires strong technical expertise, project management skills, and experience working in regulated industries to support facilities reliability and compliance.

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The Facilities Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the consistent, safe, and efficient operation of facility systems through proactive engineering, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement. This role supports both qualified and non-qualified systems by applying reliability principles to HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, refrigeration, and building automation systems. The Facilities Reliability Engineer will lead efforts to reduce downtime, improve system performance, and enhance lifecycle asset management through data-driven decision-making and engineering expertise.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conduct engineering analyses to improve system reliability, optimize performance, and reduce unplanned downtime across facility systems.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and system performance, collaborating with engineering, operations, and maintenance teams to drive strategic improvements.
• Oversee the implementation and management of a continuous Building Management System (BMS) data monitoring program, leveraging insights to reduce energy consumption, optimize asset utilization, and proactively mitigate potential failures.
• Support and enhance maintenance strategies for preventive and predictive maintenance using condition monitoring, performance data, and reliability metrics (e.g., MTBF, MTTR).
• Lead investigations into root cause analysis of system excursions and failures, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain and optimize building automation systems to ensure environmental compliance and eliminate recurring system excursions through root cause analysis.
• Monitor energy usage and identify opportunities for operational improvements and cost savings.
• Perform engineering calculations to troubleshoot system operation and implement corrective actions to improve reliability and performance.
• Develop scopes of work, perform equipment sizing calculations, evaluate vendor proposals, and manage technical aspects of facilities modifications.
• Participate in all aspects of project delivery from inception to turnover in accordance with accepted project management principles and internal engineering practices.
• Develop and maintain documentation including SOPs, preventative maintenance procedures, specifications, commissioning protocols, and change control records.
• Process revision changes on qualified systems following change control requirements. Write and manage change requests and change orders for facilities systems.
• Participate in investigations and troubleshooting associated with internal review, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), audits, or complaints.
• Apply engineering knowledge to assist in the consolidation of project requirements and data for interface with functional specialist on cross-functional teams, to ensure stakeholder understanding of trade-offs amongst cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate effectively across all organizational levels, as well as with external suppliers.
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