Reliability Engineer

The Reliability Engineer is the system owner for equipment performance, operational risk, and sustainable improvement across existing manufacturing equipment, process‑support systems, and selected facility assets. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role converts recurring failures, deviations, quality events, safety concerns, and performance losses into technically sound and measurable improvements. The Reliability Engineer leads root cause analysis, establishes asset reliability strategies, develops design and process changes, and verifies that corrective actions remain effective.

The role partners closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Quality, Validation, Automation, MSAT, EHS, and Project Engineering. It is intentionally focused on eliminating systemic causes—not owning day‑to‑day equipment setup or serving as the primary coordinator during emergency breakdowns.

• Develop and maintain reliability strategies for critical assets based on equipment criticality, failure history, product/process risk, and lifecycle stage.
• Establish asset performance baselines and monitor availability, reliability, maintainability, downtime, repeat failures, and chronic loss drivers.
• Build and maintain equipment criticality assessments, bad‑actor lists, reliability roadmaps, and risk‑ranked improvement backlogs.
• Support asset lifecycle decisions, including repair‑versus‑replace analyses, obsolescence planning, spare‑parts strategy, and capital recommendations.

• Lead structured RCAs for repeat, high‑risk, or high‑impact equipment and process failures using appropriate methods such as 5‑Why, fault‑tree analysis, fishbone, FMEA, and data trending.
• Translate event evidence into defensible failure mechanisms, corrective actions, owners, due dates, and measurable effectiveness criteria.
• Identify common‑cause and systemic issues across assets rather than treating failures as isolated work orders.
• Provide technical support to investigations, deviations, CAPAs, audit responses, and quality or safety events involving equipment performance.

• Serve as design authority for modifications to existing equipment within delegated scope, including mechanical, controls, instrumentation, guarding, utility interface, and workflow improvements.
• Develop technical scopes, engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, risk assessments, and acceptance criteria for reliability improvements.
• Lead process and process‑flow optimization when equipment design, system interaction, workflow, or risk controls must change.
• Ensure modifications are evaluated and implemented through applicable change‑control, validation, commissioning, documentation, and training processes.
• Confirm that improvements do not adversely affect validated state, product quality, data integrity, operator safety, cleanroom performance, or regulatory compliance.

• Optimize preventive maintenance tasks and frequencies using failure modes, work‑order history, OEM guidance, inspection results, and risk—not calendar frequency alone.
• Develop predictive and condition‑monitoring approaches where justified, including vibration, thermography, oil analysis, motor‑current analysis, ultrasound, calibration drift, and process‑variable trending.
• Define maintenance job plans, precision‑maintenance requirements, lubrication standards, alignment/balancing expectations, and post‑maintenance acceptance checks with Maintenance.
• Evaluate spare‑parts criticality, bills of material, min/max levels, component standardization, and obsolescence risk with Maintenance and Supply Chain.

• Use CMMS, automation, historian, alarm, batch, quality, and production data to identify trends and quantify losses.
• Develop Pareto analyses and reliability dashboards that make repeat failures, downtime, maintenance effectiveness, and improvement progress visible.
• Facilitate cross‑functional improvement efforts using Lean, Six Sigma, and…