Reliability Engineer-US Remote (East

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Alternate Titles :
Network Reliability Engineer | Plant Reliability Engineer | Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

The Reliability Engineer is an individual contributor on a centralized reliability team supporting a network of small manufacturing plants across North America. This role drives the transition from reactive maintenance to a proactive, data-driven reliability culture by leading bad actor elimination, root cause analysis, and preventive/predictive maintenance improvement across multiple sites.

This position directly contributes to reduced unplanned downtime and improved asset performance by identifying the top failure drivers at each site, facilitating root cause analysis, and embedding sustainable reliability practices into the maintenance work management process. The Reliability Engineer serves as a key point of technical leadership and cross-site learning — replicating proven solutions across the plant network to prevent recurring failures and closing the loop between reliability data and executed work.

• Pull and review downtime, failure, and repeat-work data from each site to identify the top 3–5 bad actors by highest loss or repeat failure
• Focus reliability efforts on the largest sources of unplanned downtime, transitioning sites from reactive to controlled, planned maintenance
• Monitor the effectiveness of corrective actions and system modifications to confirm sustained reliability improvement

Lead Asset Criticality Assessment & Ranking

• Establish and maintain an asset criticality register across the plant network, ranking equipment by the safety, environmental, operational, and financial consequences of failure
• Facilitate cross-functional criticality workshops with site operations, maintenance, and HSE to calibrate rankings and ensure a consistent, defensible standard across all sites
• Use criticality rankings to prioritize maintenance strategy, PM coverage, spare parts stocking, and bad actor focus — directing limited central resources to the highest-consequence assets first
• Periodically review and update criticality rankings as equipment, processes, and failure data change

Lead Root Cause Analysis & Failure Elimination

• Lead or facilitate lightweight root cause analysis (RCA) for top bad actors and recurring failures
• Determine the failure mode — design, operation, maintenance practice, or PM gap — and develop lasting corrective actions
• Conduct Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to proactively identify and mitigate potential equipment failures before they occur

Develop Preventive & Predictive Maintenance Strategies

• Audit PM compliance and lubrication routes per site; flag gaps and update PM frequencies based on failure data
• Lead lubrication excellence initiatives including lubrication strategy development, route optimization, contamination control, lubricant selection, storage and handling standards, lubrication PM…