Reliability Engineer, Level II Security Clearance

Akima Infrastructure Services, LLC (AIS) is actively seeking Engineering, Professional, Technical, and administrative support personnel as part of our staff augmentation team supporting the Department of Energy at the Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas. Successful candidates will be employees of AIS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance Y-12's core mission to ensure a safe, secure, and reliable U.S. nuclear deterrent, which is essential to national security.

Though employed by AIS, the employee will take day‑to‑day direction and assignments from Y-12 staff directly employed by the security complex. Pay, benefits, Human Resources, and Employment Management functions are provided by AIS.

Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre‑employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Reliability Engineer (RE) provides a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability. The RE has a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates, and maximize equipment reliability.

• Provides reliability‑based technical support to Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management, and Craft personnel.
• Gathers, reviews, and analyzes data concerning facility or equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) specifications.
• Reviews technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspectability features of systems, equipment and facilities, including technical basis documentation, manuals and datasheets.
• Leads integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables.
• Develops proactive maintenance strategies for structures, systems, and components.
• Identifies equipment failure modes and performs root‑cause failure analysis.
• Performs trend analysis of structures, systems, and components.
• Defines, develops, implements, revises, and monitors Asset Management Plans for structures, systems, and components.
• Deploys condition‑based, predictive, and other non‑destructive testing methodologies to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence.
• Completes and presents RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses to internal and external engineering partners, including labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates (MTBF, MTTR), and life‑cycle cost analysis.
• Supports staff augmentation peer review required to meet mission needs of the Personnel Development and Peer Review NCS Engineering group, given the experience pertinent to Y‑12 nuclear facilities.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or physical science discipline from an ABET accredited program.
• Compliance with DOE O 426.2 requirements for a Baccalaureate in Engineering/Related Science.
• At least 5 years of job‑related experience and 1 year of nuclear experience or a DOE‑approved alternative; DOE 426.2 experience can be satisfied following employment. Newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact safety basis of nuclear facilities.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q clearance.

• BS in engineering/physical science with 5+ years of Reliability Engineering experience or a master's degree in engineering/physical science with 2+ years of Reliability Engineering experience.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Engages with organizations across the site.
• Effectively presents information orally and in written communication.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with ability to multi‑task in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to obtain DOE Q clearance (restated).
• Position requires obtaining and maintaining a DOE clearance and is designated as a Workplace Substance Abuse (WSAP) testing position; participation in ongoing random drug testing program is required in addition to pre‑employment drug screen.
• Pre‑employment drug screen: external applicants selected for this position must successfully complete a post‑offer, pre‑employment drug test.
• Medical exams: job‑related pre‑placement medical examinations may be required.