Reliability & Maintainability Engineer

Job No: 503940
Work Type: Staff Full Time (1500 hours or greater)
Location: Dayton, OH
Category: Research Institute Staff
Department: Advanced Product & Sys Eng - 250615
Pay Grade: R2/R3 - Exempt
Advertised: October 06, 2026
Applications close: Open until filled

Position Summary:

Shape the Future of Reliability & Maintainability! Join UDRI, a national leader in scientific and engineering research, as a Reliability & Maintainability Engineer supporting USAF with Industry partners.

This position will provide support on-site at the Government facility. The R&M Engineer will provide comprehensive, classical R&M engineering support to include R&M analysis, data analytics, program and home office engineering support, capturing standard processes, and implementing best practices. Additionally, the R&M Engineer will provide R&M engineering subject matter expert support in the areas of product support engineering and logistics engineering, and will be responsible for updating standard documents such as MIL Handbooks with modern/current methods and information.

The R&M engineer will apply both classical R&M, product support, and logistics engineering, provide training and teach R&M and support engineering techniques and methodologies to others, use and apply R&M and support engineering software for analysis, and develop software code for data analytics. The R&M engineer will provide the Air Force all necessary tools required to complete EZP R&M and Product Support Engineering mission.

Duties will also include teaching, training, guiding, and supporting a broad experience-level R&M engineer workforce across AFLCMC, preparing training materials and delivering courses in areas of reliability engineering to small and large groups, providing R&M engineering technical support to AFLCMC Home and Program Office, and conducting large data analytical analyses.

Minimum Qualifications:

R2 Level

Qualifications:

* Bachelor Science Degree mechanical, electrical or another engineering discipline.

* 5+ years of experience working in an engineering/technical capacity.

* 3+ years of R&M experience.

* Experience in operation and maintenance data and respective environments that impact the performance of systems.

* Knowledge of reliability theories, principles, practices, statistical methods, and techniques.

* Knowledge of large data analytical analysis how it may be effectively employed.

* Effective written and verbal communication skills.

* Self Starter and ability to work under minimal supervision.

* Able to obtain and maintain DoD security Clearance.

* Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. citizen.

R3 Level must meet all minimum qualifications above in addition to having over 10 years of experience in an engineering capacity.

Preferred Qualifications:

While not everyone may possess all of the preferred qualifications, the ideal candidate will bring many of the following:

* Master’s Degree in an engineering discipline, statistics or equivalent.

* Combined 8+ years of engineering and R&M experience.

* Knowledge of R&M Engineering in Design [RAM-C preparation; R&M contract language;
Creation and verification of system R&M specification and requirements; R&M trades for balanced requirements solutions; R&M Program Plans;
Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) theory;
Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA);
Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD);
Fault tree analysis (FTA);
Reliability Allocation and Prediction generation/modeling; reliability electronic/mechanical component de-rating;
Maintenance Task Analysis; perform reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)].

* Knowledge of R&M Testing [R&M test plans;
Reliability Growth Planning and Tracking;
Joint Reliability & Maintainability Evaluation Teams (JRMET); creation of failure definitions and scoring criteria; HALT/HASS testing;
Maintainability Demonstrations (MDEMOs);
Built-In-Test Demonstrations.].

* Knowledge of R&M Analysis [Performing maintenance data collection and analysis using REMIS or other AF data sources;
Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (FRACAS) process; reliability verification plans; identification of reliability degraders; preventive maintenance analysis;
Weibull analysis; data analytics; VBA coding in Excel; large data analysis in database tool suites.].

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