Equipment Reliability Engineer

About the role

As an Equipment Reliability Engineer, you will own the systems and technical work required to keep critical manufacturing equipment safe, available, and capable. You will work directly with CNC machining tools and other production assets, lead difficult breakdown repairs, establish preventive and predictive maintenance, build the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) from the ground up, and ensure new equipment is commissioned with a complete operational and maintenance handoff. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on equipment knowledge with disciplined reliability engineering and practical project management. This person is comfortable working at the machine during a breakdown, translating failure history into an actionable reliability plan, coordinating vendors and internal teams, and building scalable maintenance processes in a fast moving manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the site equipment reliability roadmap for CNC machine tools and other critical manufacturing assets, balancing safety, quality, uptime, cost, and production risk.
• Lead troubleshooting and breakdown repair for complex mechanical, electrical, controls, hydraulic, pneumatic, and precision-motion issues; coordinate OEM or specialist support when required.
• Create and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance plans using equipment criticality, OEM guidance, failure history, and condition data.
• Build and administer the CMMS from scratch, including asset hierarchy, equipment records, PM libraries, work-order workflows, labor and downtime tracking, spare parts data, dashboards etc.
• Establish and manage a critical spare parts inventory strategy based on equipment criticality, failure risk, part cost, supplier lead time, availability, and production impact; optimize stocking levels to balance equipment uptime with inventory carrying cost.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and corrective action for chronic or high-impact failures using structured methods such as 5 Whys, fault-tree analysis, and FMEA; verify that corrective actions are sustained.
• Own equipment commissioning and maintenance readiness for new or relocated machines, including acceptance criteria, installation coordination, utility and safety checks, and handoff to operations.
• Establish and report reliability metrics such as uptime, OEE inputs, PM compliance, planned-versus-reactive work, repeat failures, backlog health, and maintenance cost.
• Manage improvement projects from scope through closeout, coordinating schedules, budgets, vendors, parts, risk, change control, and stakeholder communication while supporting urgent production needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, industrial, mechatronics engineering or a related technical field AND 3+ years of hands-on equipment reliability, industrial maintenance, manufacturing equipment, or commissioning experience; OR 8+ years of progressively responsible industrial maintenance or equipment reliability experience, including substantial work with CNC machine tools and automated production equipment.
• Ability to support off-shift, weekend