Reliability Engineer

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (Onsite)

Travel: Approximately 50% | Weekend on-call required

Our client, a global leader in heavy industrial manufacturing, is seeking an experienced Electrical & Automation Engineer to take ownership of plant-wide electrical, instrumentation, control, automation, and networking systems.

This role is responsible for ensuring safe and reliable plant operations at the lowest life-cycle cost while developing and executing cost-effective projects that improve productivity across multiple facilities.

• Ensure safe and reliable plant operations
• Identify, develop, and implement solutions to electrical, instrumentation, automation, networking, and cybersecurity reliability issues
• Manage full project lifecycle from system design, programming, simulation, testing, commissioning, and documentation
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts to prevent recurrence of major failures
• Monitor and optimize predictive and preventive maintenance programs
• Review and update Standard Maintenance Procedures (SMP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Track KPIs, metrics, and key reliability initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, maintenance, engineering, and IT teams

• High-voltage electrical power systems (440–480V and above)
• PLC logic and HMI programming
• Instrumentation and control devices
• Switchgear (low/medium/high voltage), transformers, motors, distribution systems
• MCCs and VFDs
• Process control networks and cybersecurity systems

• Heavy Manufacturing

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronic, Computer, or Networking Engineering
• 12+ years of experience in engineering, maintenance, reliability, automation, networking, or cybersecurity within an industrial manufacturing environment
• Proven experience executing reliability methodologies including RCA, RCI, FMEA, downtime analysis, and Fishbone analysis
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
• Experience engineering and designing electrical/instrumentation/automation/networking systems and projects
• Proficiency with SAP, AutoCAD, Rockwell PLCs, Modicon PLCs, HMIs, Excel, Visio, Word, and Power Point
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills
• Bilingual Spanish is a plus

• Must be flexible as facilities operate 24/7 and emergency support may be required
• Weekend on-call coverage required
  
  Must be comfortable with approximately 50% travel and extended travel periods
• Combination of office and field work environment
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds occasionally

If you are a senior-level Electrical & Automation Engineer seeking a high-impact, multi-site reliability role within a stable global organization, we would welcome the opportunity to connect.