Senior Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Summary

We are a U.S.-based, well-diversified, growing precious metals producer with seven wholly-owned operations: the New Afton gold-copper mine in British Columbia, Canada, the Rainy River gold-silver mine in Ontario, Canada, the Las Chispas silver-gold mine in Sonora, Mexico, the Palmarejo gold-silver mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska and the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota. In addition, the Company wholly-owns the Silvertip polymetallic critical minerals exploration project in British Columbia, Canada.

Coeur is the only mining company with headquarters in Chicago. The office is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Chicago, near public transportation. Coeur offers a flexible, hybrid work model and a culture that prioritizes health and safety, teamwork, career development, and growth. We are a growing business with various opportunities in accounting, IT, engineering, technical services, HR, and other corporate functions. If you want to grow your career in a progressive, team-oriented environment, apply today.

Position Overview

This role will be accountable to operationalize our Remote Monitoring Centre and lead the Implementation of the Asset Performance Management (APM) system for driving best-in-class process Machinery and Mobile equipment performance. This role will provide technical support and recommendations to improve reliability, availability, and lifecycle performance across mining operations. The position requires a strong foundation in classical reliability engineering combined with modern asset health monitoring, sensor data interpretation, OT/IT integration awareness, and applied analytics to triage anomalies to provide best course of actions to the site maintenance teams.

Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities

Remote Asset Health Monitoring

• Lead the setup, implementation and sustainment of Remote Asset Health Monitoring for critical assets.
  • Develop asset health models that integrate field sensor data, Historian and maintenance system data
• Provide technical guidance on OT/IT integration concepts (historians, CMMS, APM platforms, data flows) and Data validation and contextualization
• Collaborate with IT, Data Analytics, and OEMs to ensure reliable and secure data pipelines.

Asset Performance Management - APM Program Leadership

• Serve as the technical owner and reliability lead for the APM implementation.
• Define and maintain the reliability framework underpinning the APM system, including:
  • Asset hierarchies
  • Failure modes and health indicators
  • Risk and criticality models
  • Provide technical input to configuration of Predictive models, Rules-based alerts and Health and risk dashboards
• Ensure APM outputs translate into Actionable maintenance work and measurable reliability and cost improvements
• Act as the primary liaison between Operations, Maintenance, IT, and the APM implementation team.

Condition-Based & Predictive Maintenance Program. To support APM and predictive capabilities will:

• Design and implement standards, frameworks, and best practices for a Condition-Based Maintenance program.
• Define Critical Asset Lists, Failure modes suitable for CBM/PdM, Sensor and data requirements (vibration, temperature, pressure, oil analysis, electrical, process data).
• Work closely with operations and maintenance teams to ensure Field data quality, density, correct interpretation of condition indicators and Effective response workflows to asset health alerts.

Analytics & Predictive Technologies

• Apply foundational data analytics concepts to support asset health insights.
  • Support or guide the use of Predictive analytics tools
• Validate model outputs using engineering judgement and field knowledge.
• Continuously improve models based on operational feedback and failure history.

In the long-term, following a successful implementation of our Remote Monitoring Center, this role will support additional capabilities towards Best-in-class Maintenance:

Reliability Engineering & Asset Strategy

• Provide technical reliability support for Fixed Plant (crushing, conveying, processing, utilities) and Mobile Equipment (haul trucks, shovels, loaders, drills, ancillary equipment).
• Identify and eliminate bad actors through data-driven analysis and structured reliability methodologies.
• Lead and facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA), RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance) and FMEA/FMECA
• Translate reliability findings into Optimized maintenance strategies, Asset care standards and Improved job plans and task frequencies
• Support lifecycle asset decisions including maintenance tactics, spares strategies, and asset replacement recommendations.

Standards, Governance & Capability Building

• Develop and maintain Reliability engineering standards
  • CBM/PdM guidelines
  • Asset health monitoring playbooks
• Mentor and coach maintenance and reliability personnel on:
  • Reliability methodologies
  • Data-driven decision making
• Promote a culture of proactive, risk-based maintenance.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and systems thinking
• Ability to bridge engineering, digital, and operational teams
• Influential leadership without direct authority
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Fluency in both Spanish and English is preferred
• Practical, field-oriented mindset combined with strategic thinking
• Work location: remote or based at one of Coeur’s mine operations or offices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, or experienced Mechanic/Electrical tradesman/technician
• 8–15+ years of experience in maintenance execution, reliability, maintenance engineering, Planning and Scheduling or asset management within mining, heavy industry, manufacturing or oil & gas.
• Proven involvement in implementing CBM / PdM programs. Strong understanding of Asset failure modes, Sensor technologies and condition monitoring data
• Foundational knowledge of OT/IT integration concepts, Data historians and CMMS integration
• Working knowledge of predictive analytics concepts and machine learning applications in asset health.
• Ability to translate data outputs into engineering actions.
• Experience with APM systems will be a plus
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with RCA, RCM, FMEA/FMECA and Bad actor elimination
• This job is remote reporting to Coeur’s corporate office in Chicago, IL but with 20-40% travel required to the operations
• Reliability or asset management certifications are an asset (e.g., CRE, CMRP, ISO 55000, Six Sigma).

The salary range offered for this role is $120K-$130K . The salary range is a good-faith estimate. The salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, training, and/or experience. The salary offer will not be based on a candidate’s salary history at other jobs, and by law, Coeur Mining will not seek information about salary history, and candidates should not share such information with Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health benefits, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Coeur Mining also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.