Reliability Engineer

About the role

Airbus Aerosystems is seeking a Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering department based in Kinston, NC. The Industrial Maintenance organization provides corrective and preventative maintenance across a broad range of installed assets and hand tools within the Kinston Plant. The assets include mechanical and electrical CNC machinery, conventional production machinery, Jigs and Tools, industrial autoclaves and automated guided vehicles. Asset age ranges from new equipment, up to 15 years old.

Responsibilities

• Ensure legislative compliance and lead improvements in asset safety, reliability and availability.
• Define the maintenance strategy for new technologies within the new Airbus Aerostructures in the Kinston Plant.
• Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Airbus Aerostructures in the Kinston Plant.
• Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
• Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost-effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
• Manage effective asset performance measurement.
• Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
• Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
• Develop and deploy the maintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.
• Ensure 'best in class' safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.
• Maintain a 'safety first' culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a 'champion for safety.'
• Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies.
• Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
• Maintain compliance with Airbus procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (FU.IN.07), Airbus Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape.
• Lead Total Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget.
• Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
• Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
• Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
• Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
• Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability.
• Project manage simple, low-cost refurbishment projects.
• Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
• Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
• Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices.
• Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability.
• Maintain the standard of Asset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
• Work with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services.
• Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans.
• Lead technical problem solving and lessons learned activity.
• Embed and maintain a culture of structured root cause analysis to minimize the re-occurrence of breakdowns.
• Deploy maintenance tools and methodologies to maximize reliability (e.g. Condition Based Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Autonomous Maintenance).
• Be the champion for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Contribute actively to the overall management of the Industrial Maintenance business.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR Two or more years of relevant experience with a Master’s Degree.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of maintenance procedures and practices.
• Experience with predictive and preventive maintenance techniques.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”).
• Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a paid parental leave program.
• Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path; as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programs; and both national and international mobility.