Reliability Engineer

Position Overview

Reliability Engineer (RE) provides a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability. The RE has a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates and maximize equipment reliability. The RE is responsible for but not limited to:

• Defines and provides implementation support for recommendations that ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems
• Provides reliability based technical support to Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management and Craft personnel
• Gathers, reviews, and analyzes data concerning facility or equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) specifications
• Review technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspectability features of systems, equipment and facilities including technical basis documentation, manuals and data-sheets
• Lead role in integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables
• Development of proactive maintenance strategies for structures, systems and components
• Equipment Failure Mode Identification and Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Trend Analysis of structures, systems, and components
• Defines, develops, implements, revises, and monitors Asset Management Plan(s) for structures, systems and components
• Effective deployment of condition based, predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence
• Completion and presentation of both RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses to internal and external engineering partners. Analysis to include labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates MTBF, MTTR and life-cycle cost analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering/physical science discipline from an ABET accredited program.
• 5+ years of job related experience with 1 year of nuclear industry experience
• Ability to work independently as well as work within a team environment and promote collaboration
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Interact with organizations across the Site
• Present information on clearly and effectively through the oral and written communication
• Able to resolve complex issues, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to multi -task in a fast-paced work environment
• Must be a US Citizen