Reliability Engineer Job Description

Reliability Engineer I analyzes the reliability in design, cost, weight, production and consumer satisfaction of company products. Develops the methods and measures of analysis based on customer and contractual obligations. Being a Reliability Engineer I prepares reports, charts and diagrams to disclose results and highlight areas for further investigation. May require a bachelor’s degree in area of specialty. Additionally, Reliability Engineer I typically reports to a supervisor or manager. To be a Reliability Engineer I typically requires 0-2 years of related experience. Works on projects/matters of limited complexity in a support role. Work is closely managed.

Reliability Engineer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Reliability Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel;
  • Technical problem can require direct corrective action but often need to be solved through very complex matrix organization;
  • Support clients in developing Mechanical Integrity (MI) programs;
  • Work closely with engineering to develop configuration changes and implement changes as per business needs;
  • Provide direction with respect to the maintenance of operational systems;
  • Build and maintain network fabrics through relentless automation with configuration management tooling (eg. Ansible, Salt, or Chef);
  • Develop and maintain working relationships with all functional areas of the site;
  • Lead Root Cause failure Analysis (RCFA) and develop corrective action items;
  • Knowledge of manual valve sizing, use and application;
  • Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or approved equal;
  • Influence Users to keep equipment in a standard design and use;
  • Design and implement massively scalable, highly-performant infrastructure within the hybrid environment of on-prem and AWS/GCP;
  • Estimating piping related construction quantities from conceptual documents;
  • Follow and develop standard procedures to generate and analyze failure mode data to characterize component problems;
  • Excellent presentation skills.

Requirements:

  • Travel as needed;
  • Ability to work with professional contacts, vendors, facilities and to work as a team member;
  • Effective analytical and problem-solving skills;
  • To perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy and quick delivery;
  • Knowledge of manual valve sizing, use and application;
  • Organizational & detailed-oriented with the ability to prioritize and manage complex tasks;
  • Knowledge and application of company engineering design and CAD drafting standards;
  • Experience designing, deploying and operating solutions in public cloud is desirable (AWS, GCP, Azure);
  • Estimating piping related construction quantities from conceptual documents;
  • A passion for in-depth understanding of technology, and building large-scale systems;
  • Excellent presentation skills;
  • Identification of need, application and specification of safety valves and devices to maintain the mechanical integrity of piping systems;
  • Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment – strong sense of urgency;
  • Proficiency with Maximo (or other CMMS);
  • Prior experience in pharmaceutical industry (5 years minimum).