Reliability Engineer

About the role

James Hardie is the industry leader in exterior home and outdoor living solutions, with a portfolio that includes fiber cement, fiber gypsum, composite and PVC decking and railing products. Our family of trusted brands includes Hardie®, TimberTech®, AZEK® Exteriors, Versatex®, fermacell®, and StruXure®. With over 8,000 employees and our U.S. operating entities headquartered in Chicago, we boast 31 operating sites, 6 recycling facilities, and 6 research and development centers globally. Powered by a dynamic workforce, we’re united by our purpose of Building a Better Future for All™ through sustainable innovation, a Zero Harm culture, and a commitment to empowering our people and communities. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a solid maintenance reliability and project management background to assist in the development and application of James Hardie’s core maintenance strategy.

Responsibilities

• Assist the manufacturing operations with the execution of the reliability center maintenance activities necessary to eliminate unplanned asset failures.
• Lead root cause analysis events in the identification and elimination of production losses and high maintenance costs associated with asset failures.
• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.
• Develop and implement best practices for assets to ensure their maximum mean time between failures.
• Guide efforts to ensure best practices are being implemented to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety systems.
• Assist plant engineers with the analysis of asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life and other parameters that define the operating condition, reliability and costs of assets.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Assist plant personnel in the classification and development of material lists for assets.
• Review and apply statistical methods to identify reliability trends.
• Establish and track reliability metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (mechanical, electrical or chemical) – Degree must be from an accredited institution.
• 3-5 years of experience in an industrial continuous operating (24/7) manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication (written, oral and interpersonal) skills.
• Ability to lead and be part of cross‑functional teams.
• Advanced knowledge in reliability centered maintenance, failure modes & effects analysis, criticality analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and correct opportunities to improve mean time between failures of assets.
• Experience with computer maintenance management systems (CMMS), INFOR BE or equivalent.
• Advanced skills in basic personal computer software (Microsoft applications).

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus eligibility.
• Insurance: day‑one health coverage medical, dental, vision, life insurance.
• Paid Time Off: vacation and company holidays.
• Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match.
• Investments: Employee Stock Purchase plan (ESP).
• Work‑Life Balance: parental leave, wellness programs.
• Purpose. Impact. Community: Sustainability Initiatives.

Pay

As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position is $106,700 to $140,000. Placement in the range depends on several factors such as experience, skills, geography and internal equity and may change over time.