Reliability Engineer

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for identifying, leading, and executing activities that are aimed at reducing the costs of failure caused by non-productive time, repair costs, personnel, and premature product failures. This role works within or in close collaboration with regional service delivery, global product line and engineering, quality and supply chain functions to ensure comprehensive incident management and robust corrective action implementation.

• Ensure compliance with Manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process
• Lead / participate in Incident Investigation, ensuring the end to end process is considered, (including job planning, preparation, and execution), when determining incident root cause(s) alongside appropriate corrective actions
• Focuses on preventing failures during the lifecycle management of a product or service through active monitoring and corrective action planning
• Supports job planning and preparation by participating in Risk Assessment / deviation waiver / Management of Change (RA / DWR/ MOC) and deployment readiness assessment processes (DRA)
• Participates in the engineering design review process
• Execute the key steps outlined within the Field Incident Management Process (FIMP).
• Manage the FRACAS DMAIC stages
• Apply root cause analysis (RCA) processes
• Develop and review cause maps
• Facilitate or lead incident investigations
• Develops RCA reports and technical or field bulletins
• Facilitate or lead incident review and corrective action boards
• Identify FRACAS trends to identify and prioritize failure modes to investigate for corrective actions
• Analyze performance data and monitor performance
• Identify and report performance trends
• Develop and report key performance indicators as needed
• Share lessons learned with the field population
• Collaborates across reliability engineering community to facilitate knowledge transfer
• Acts as a subject matter expert for respective area to service delivery and supply chain functions
• Support new product development in all aspects relevant to reliability engineering, through direct liaison with engineering and the deploying region
• Other PL Specifics responsibilities
• Handles special projects as required

• 3-5 years in reliability engineering required
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics
• Excellent leadership, strong interpersonal, influencing and planning skills.
• Ability to work in a global matrix organization
• Understanding of the Service Delivery process and the technical nature of the business

• Preferred prior experience includes roles such as:
• Field Engineer/Specialist or Remote Professional, product development, applications engineer, AMO engineer or other technical disciplines
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to work and communicate well with others.
• Must be able to effectively communicate in English.
• Previous experience in presenting detailed and technical information preferred.
• Project Management Skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills with respect to Applied Engineering, Design and Technology Development.
• Strong Six-Sigma DMAIC process and business intelligence knowledge.
• Self-contained, self-motivated and structured approach to work within a global, interdisciplinary team under limited supervision
• A strong commitment to learning.

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