Reliability & Equipment Engineer

The Maintenance & Reliability Engineer role exists to improve equipment reliability, maintainability, availability, and overall asset performance while supporting safe, efficient, and cost-effective manufacturing operations. This role serves as a technical resource for maintenance execution and reliability improvement activities, applying engineering principles, reliability tools, and maintenance best practices to maximize equipment life cycle value and support business objectives.

Accountabilities The Maintenance & Reliability Engineer is accountable for developing and executing equipment reliability and maintenance strategies, identifying and eliminating root causes of equipment failures, improving asset performance, and ensuring the accuracy of maintenance information, procedures, and documentation within the maintenance management system. The role supports both day-to-day maintenance activities and long-term reliability initiatives that enable the Area Business Team to meet business requirements safely and effectively.

Responsibilities Lead and support Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations utilizing cause-and-effect methodologies to identify and eliminate recurring equipment failures.

Provide technical expertise to operations and maintenance personnel for troubleshooting equipment failures, repair methods, maintenance practices, and equipment performance improvement.

Develop, implement, and continuously improve maintenance and reliability strategies that optimize safety, availability, reliability, and total cost of ownership.

Create, update, and maintain repair procedures, work instructions, maintenance standards, and job plans to ensure repairs are completed safely, consistently, and accurately.

Ensure critical repair details including tolerances, clearances, materials of construction, welding requirements, inspection criteria, and quality standards are defined and documented.

Utilize reliability engineering tools and methodologies such as Weibull Analysis, FMEA, RCA, and reliability-centered maintenance techniques to improve asset performance and capability.

Monitor, analyze, and report asset performance metrics including availability, utilization, OEE, production losses, and other reliability indicators to identify improvement opportunities.

Develop strategic asset improvement plans including outage strategies, turnaround planning, rebuild frequencies, inline spares, critical spare strategies, and long-term reliability initiatives.

Establish, review, and optimize preventive, predictive, and planned maintenance programs to support equipment reliability objectives.

Provide technical support during major maintenance outages, turnarounds, equipment rebuilds, and capital improvement projects.

Collaborate with equipment vendors, contractors, and engineering resources to perform failure analyses, obtain technical recommendations, and evaluate replacement or upgrade options.

Support vessel inspections, repair plans, alterations, and other equipment integrity activities in accordance with applicable standards and site requirements.

Evaluate corrective actions to ensure improvements deliver measurable reliability and availability benefits and leverage successful solutions across the site where appropriate.

Review and maintain Bills of Material (BOMs), equipment records, and spare parts inventories to ensure accuracy and adequate support for reliability objectives.

Apply reliability and lifecycle cost principles to spare parts selection, inventory optimization, purchasing requirements, and equipment replacement decisions.

Ensure equipment-specific training materials, maintenance procedures, and technical documentation are developed, maintained, and readily available.

Serve as a technical resource for Maintenance Planners, Maintenance Technicians, Operations personnel, and Area Business Teams.

Participate in plant health assessments and implement reliability improvement actions to maintain and improve overall asset health.

Support maintenance budgeting, capital planning, and reliability improvement initiatives aligned with business objectives.

Provide maintenance and reliability input to CorePD, capital projects, and new equipment installations to ensure reliability is designed into systems from inception.

Participate in site and corporate reliability networks and share best practices across the organization.

Attributes Strong communicator capable of effectively working with personnel at all levels of the organization, from operators and…