Reliability Engineer

What this job involves: This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive operational excellence in facility management. The Reliability Engineer will provide comprehensive engineering support for the planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings and utilities. Key responsibilities include developing and implementing strategies to ensure safe operations, maximizing equipment reliability, and optimizing maintenance costs while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and regulatory compliance.

The position also focuses on applying efficient technologies to various building systems-including lighting, HVAC, utilities, and power-to reduce operating costs. The engineer will utilize advanced maintenance strategies and predictive technologies to optimize system performance, enhance lifecycle cost management, and improve return on investment. This multifaceted role requires a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and innovative problem-solving to elevate facility performance and efficiency.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Leads and is responsible for the execution of reliability excellence/maintenance program. Writes and maintains reliability maintenance strategy documents.
• Responsible for ranking the criticality of the assets under their care, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and for defining the proactive maintenance approaches that are cost-beneficial to the business.
• Identifies and implements predictive maintenance technologies. Manages predictive maintenance equipment.
• Administers programs, such as Thermography, vibration analysis, lube oil monitoring, for the site and regionally. Administration may include vendor selection, program scooping/scheduling, analysis review, and corrective action follow-up.
• Performs/supports operational event and equipment failure investigations to ensure that the root cause/causal factors have been identified, corrective actions prescribed, and follow-up monitoring conducted as applicable, to determine effectiveness
• Conducts program and system/equipment audits on a periodic and as needed basis. Audits will generally be focused on safety, regulatory compliance, maintenance effectiveness, cost savings, and energy conservation.
• Participates in the planning, design review, value management and construction document development of new facilities and renovations. Supports utility distribution, master planning, and business continuity planning.
• Performs life-cycle financial modeling of developed technical solutions. Construct detailed technical proposals and draft bid documents.
• Supports commissioning activities for all upgrade, renovation, and construction projects which may include, but are not limited to, PM job plans, reviews for maintainability, critical spares, documentation, etc.
• Develop and maintain new "Key Performance Indicators" of equipment reliability
• All other duties/tasks assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of engineering experience with mechanical design/testing, international quality standards
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or related field of discipline from an accredited institution
• Previous experience working in facilities/plant management
• Certified Plant Engineer or Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional
• Experience working with predictive maintenance technologies including, but not limited to, vibration analysis, oil analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasound and motor current analysis
• Experience w/ Root Cause Failure Analysis, Equipment Criticality Ranking, PM/PdM optimization, and/or Failure Modes and Effects
• Comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles applied to design, operation and maintenance of building structures and mechanical and electrical equipment for buildings
• Proficient with Microsoft programs such as Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.

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