Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring that equipment, systems, or processes operate safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime. They identify potential failures, improve maintenance strategies, and enhance system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze equipment performance and reliability.
• Conduct root cause failure analysis (RCFA) for equipment breakdowns.
• Develop and implement preventive and predictive reliability tools to monitor asset health, benchmark performance, and extend critical asset life.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
• Analyze maintenance and operational data to identify trends and recommend improvements.
• Support maintenance and operations teams in troubleshooting complex equipment issues.
• Develop reliability reports, KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Participate in risk assessments such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Recommend equipment modifications and process improvements to increase asset life.
• Participate in all plant wide communications.
• Assist other Autoneum plants, as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, or asset management.
• Knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance, FMEA, and root cause analysis.
• Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees and customers.
• Basics math skills are required.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret instructions and deal with abstract and concrete variables.
• Proficient in MS Office software (including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel) and Minitab.