Position Details

  The Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing technical program leadership to maximize up-time and the operating efficiency of equipment and facility assets. The incumbent will minimize costs and contribute to the overall profitability and performance of the business. Establish guidelines and specifications for properly implementing Preventive Maintenance activities. These guidelines and specifications identify equipment / instrument specific PM criteria (i.e.: Task, Frequency, Materials, Skill, Calibration parameters, etc.), Administers and oversees the PM / Calibration Program. Provides technical assistance and expertise to maintenance and operations personnel to ensure compliance to PM program requirements. Develops and implements equipment reliability plans that reduce the number of failures and minimizes the effects of failures that do occur. Develops procedures and specifications for the reliability maintenance aspects of existing and new equipment. Generates change control documentation as required by maintenance or reliability activities (i.e. Repairs, PM failures, Bad Actor reporting, FMEA, Projects, etc.) 

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies chronic equipment (classification based) deficiencies through analysis and reporting.
• Performs reliability analysis to identify root cause of ongoing issue; develops, changes, and initiates maintenance activities such as PM, CBM, lubrication, calibration, training, and spare parts or identifies design modification projects to improve performance and equipment availability.
• Updates the criticality ranking of the assets under his/her care, using results from reporting and analysis, PM / Calibration activities, and other sources.
• Provides reliability maintenance input to project engineering design and equipment selection.
• Provides input to capital project design with respect to equipment selection and specifications that create project approaches which minimize life cycle costs.
• Provides input and oversight to equipment standards.
• Provides technical assistance to plant personnel to remedy breakdowns, improve safety or operator efficiency.

Key Competencies

Skills

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree (BS) in Engineering, preferably in Mechanical Engineering is required.
• Three (3) to (5) years of engineering and/or maintenance experience is strongly desired, preferably in the Pharmaceutical (FDA regulated) or Chemical industry.
• Equipment reliability principles, mechanical integrity, and NDT disciplines knowledge preferred.
• Advanced computer skills, knowledge of CMMS, Reliability, and NDT software tools experience.

Physical Requirements