Jobs · Supply Chain · New Jersey

Reliability Engineer

Reckitt · Hillsborough, NJ · 6 days ago
On-siteSupply ChainFull-time

About the role

The Reliability Engineering is accountable for transforming asset performance across the factory from a reactive maintenance environment to a preventive and proactive reliability-driven operation. The role focuses on maximizing equipment uptime, improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and building sustainable maintenance capabilities for a fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) environment producing liquids and aerosols in bottles and cans.

This position plays a key leadership role in:

  • Establishing a data-driven maintenance strategy from the ground up
  • Driving losses understanding, elimination, and prevention
  • Building technical capability across maintenance and production teams
  • Digitizing maintenance systems through a CMMS implementation

Your responsibilities

Develop and execute reliability strategies to improve asset performance, transitioning maintenance from reactive to predictive while driving OEE, MTBF, and MTTR improvements

Lead loss elimination efforts using RCA, FMEA, and continuous improvement methods to resolve chronic failures and sustain performance gains

Implement and optimize CMMS and digital maintenance systems to enhance work order management, preventive maintenance, data accuracy, and KPI tracking

Build and develop high-performing teams by coaching reliability practices, strengthening technical capabilities, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement

Manage capital projects and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring reliability standards in equipment design/installation while aligning with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and EHS priorities

The experience we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent)
  • 8–10 years of experience in maintenance/reliability within FMCG or similar high-speed manufacturing environments
  • Proven experience in:
    • Designing and implementing maintenance strategies from scratch
    • Reliability engineering tools and methodologies
    • CMMS implementation and digital transformation

Experience with liquid filling and/or aerosol production environments is highly desirable

The skills for success

  • Technical skills including strong understanding of:
    • Preventive & predictive maintenance systems
    • Asset reliability and lifecycle management
    • High-speed packaging equipment
    • Control and Automation
    • Mixing Process
  • Data-driven decision making and analytical skills
  • Leadership skills including strong people leadership and coaching capabilities, ability to drive execution and behavioral change, and influencing skills across all organizational levels
  • Operational excellence including passion for execution, discipline, and continuous improvement, strong problem-solving mindset, and experience in Lean / TPM / Manufacturing Excellence systems
  • Project & collaboration skills including strong project management skills, ability to work cross-functionally and align stakeholders, and experience managing complexity in fast-paced environments

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