Dewey Plant - Site Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Date: Oct 21, 2026

Location: Inman, SC, US, 29349

Company: Milliken and Company

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Dewey Plant
- Site Maintenance Reliability Engineer

The Engineering Service Professional provides technical leadership for the lifecycle reliability of production equipment, electrical and instrumentation systems, automation, utilities, and supporting plant assets in a Process Safety Management (PSM)-regulated manufacturing environment. The position improves equipment uptime and manufacturing performance by developing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, leading root cause failure analysis, strengthening calibration and asset-management processes, and supporting safe execution of maintenance, outage, and capital work.

This role combines hands-on troubleshooting, reliability engineering, field execution, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement. The Reliability Engineer serves as a technical resource to Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, Quality, contractors, and equipment suppliers and may provide day-to-day direction, coaching, or supervision to technicians and other maintenance resources as assigned.

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs for mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utility assets.
• Analyze equipment history, failure modes, work-order data, condition-monitoring results, and production losses to identify reliability risks and improvement priorities.
• Lead or participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for significant equipment failures, recurring defects, process interruptions, and reliability events; establish and track corrective actions.
• Develop equipment strategies, performance expectations, standards, procedures, inspection frequencies, and acceptance criteria based on risk, operating context, and manufacturer recommendations.
• Partner with planners, schedulers, technicians, Operations, and contractors to improve job plans, maintenance execution, backlog quality, spare-parts readiness, and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Support planning and execution of production-line outages, sitewide outages, turnarounds, and other high-risk maintenance activities.
• Identify bad actors and obsolete or high-risk equipment; recommend repair, redesign, replacement, or capital investment solutions.

• Provide technical support for complex electrical, instrumentation, motor, variable frequency drive (VFD), control-valve, actuator, PLC, HMI, and plant automation issues.
• Support diagnosis, repair, specification, installation, commissioning, and performance monitoring of plant control and automation systems.
• Ensure appropriate application of intrinsic-safety and explosion-proof classifications and support compliance with NFPA 70E, the National Electrical Code (NEC), local requirements, and company procedures.
• Develop, maintain, and improve the plant calibration program for field instruments and critical process-control devices.
• Maintain accurate P&IDs, wiring diagrams, instrument loop drawings, equipment records, tags, specifications, and related technical documentation.
• Review and support electrical and control-system installations, construction activities, and project commissioning as assigned.

• Provide technical expertise for chemical manufacturing processes, production equipment, industrial utilities, and plant systems.
• Support troubleshooting of process, equipment, and utility performance issues to minimize downtime and restore safe, stable operation.
• Evaluate and recommend process or equipment improvements that enhance safety, quality,…