Reliability Engineer

Allendale, 75 Commerce Drive, Allendale, New Jersey, United States of America

Be part of something bigger at Minaris Advanced Therapies—where every role contributes to creating hope for patients around the world. As a global leader in cell and gene therapy development, manufacturing, and testing, we turn breakthrough science into real-world treatments that change lives. Our team of over 1,000 experts across North America, Europe, and Asia has helped bring transformative therapies to market.

At Minaris, you’ll join a purpose-driven community focused on innovation, collaboration, and patient impact. Whether you’re in the lab, in the cleanroom, or behind the scenes, your work will directly support life-saving therapies and make a lasting difference. If you're passionate about advancing cutting-edge science and believe in the potential of cell and gene therapies, we invite you to help shape the future of medicine—one patient at a time.

Position Summary

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing both tactical and strategic support for the development, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of Reliability Solutions over the entire lifecycle of Site Assets and Capital Projects.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Below is the summary of the role responsibilities. This is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the role. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned with or without notice.

CMMS Development

• Develop, maintain and update the Proactive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring programs within the organization.
• Authorize all final changes to the PM/PdM program and ensure that program changes are properly entered into CMMS
• Integrate Asset Criticality Assessment results into Asset records and maintenance strategy
• Assist in developing a spare parts program strategy in the CMMS and ensure required changes are documented and communicated
• Assist in establishing clear workflows & responsibilities for Work Order and Job Plan execution and approval, system administration, and training in use of the system.
• PM Optimization Program - review the existing maintenance program for opportunities to: o Identify and remove low value‑added tasks
• Revise PM intervals based on task type, asset usage, environment, and industry guidelines
• Replace time‑based intrusive tasks with condition based non‑intrusive tasks where applicable
• Develop Failure Modes and ensure all Job Plan tasks are tied to a failure mode
• Strengthen work packages (task instructions, parts, and tools)

Procedural Development

• Provide oversight and direction to implement a life cycle Asset Management program across the organization. This includes defining the Vision, providing guidance to Site teams, setting expectations, establishing and monitoring metrics, interfacing with numerous groups and communicating the Vision to key Stakeholders across the Organization. This effort also involves defining the interfaces with other Business Enterprise systems supported across HCATS
• Assist in developing a site Criticality Analysis approach and update as required.
• Devise methods to develop and improve engineering standards and work practices within the department
• Develop procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects of existing and new equipment and systems.

Analytics

• Monitor and drive the effectiveness of the Reliability & Maintenance program.
• Develop reliability metrics to evaluate activities and processes to assess Capital Effectiveness. Identify opportunities to provide improvement through benchmarking of metrics, personal knowledge, and interfacing with others.
• Evaluate and trend critical equipment performance and history and develop proactive strategies to minimize the occurrence of the failures. Compare system and components failure rates with industry norms.
• Identify Bad actors by analyzing equipment history using CMMS data, spare parts utilization, PdM history, etc.

Investigation and…