Reliability Engineer III

General Duties

• Read SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and excerpts from technical documentation.
• Author SOPs and Work Instructions in the department’s area of responsibility.
• Train others on systems, software, equipment, machines, procedures, and/or processes.
• Facilitate team meetings to discuss progress, initiatives, and/or other matters.
• Wear gowning, sterile garments, and PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) as required by specific activities.
• Provide leadership, development, and mentoring for others.
• Evaluate new software and/or tools.
• Lead and support change control activities.
• Serve as SME (subject matter expert) for CMMS.
• Lead coordination of shutdown activities for the plant across all PETs and BETs.

Asset Reliability & Performance

• Develop and execute equipment reliability strategies for packaging and inspection assets.
• Monitor and analyze equipment performance (OEE, MTBF, MTTR) to identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead reliability/spare parts meetings.
• Lead reliability/spare parts meetings.

Maintenance Strategy & Optimization

• Execute and manage master data requests to support BOM accuracy, maintenance plans, and asset reliability.
• Develop and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
• Perform PM effectiveness reviews and adjust frequencies based on failure data.
• Lead and facilitate root cause investigations for major equipment failures.
• Apply structured RCA methodologies (5-Why, Fishbone, Fault Tree, etc.).
• Track corrective and preventive actions to closure.
• Identify recurring failure modes and implement permanent fixes.

Data Analytics & Reliability Reporting

• Develop and maintain reliability dashboards and KPIs.
• Analyze work order history to identify trends and bad actors.

Capital Projects & Equipment

• Provide reliability input during equipment design, FAT/SAT, and commissioning.
• Ensure maintainability and spare parts strategies are defined for new assets.
• Support equipment lifecycle planning.
• Partner with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Quality.
• Work with OEMs and vendors to resolve chronic equipment issues.

Compliance & Documentation

• Ensure maintenance and reliability practices meet GMP requirements.
• Support audit readiness for equipment and maintenance programs.
• Sponsor SOP and job plan development and updates.
• Ensure data accuracy within SAP and reliability systems.
• Track preventive maintenance compliance for the site.

Qualifications

• Significant experience supporting reliability in a manufacturing environment.
• Solid experience in Production, Maintenance, leading projects, and/or Engineering Improvements.
• Strong mechanical/technical aptitude.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related science.
• In-depth knowledge of CMMS.
• Significant experience supporting reliability in a regulated or cGMP environment.
• CERTIFIED RELIABILITY ENGINEER (CRE), CERTIFIED RELIABILITY LEADER (CRL), and/or CERTIFIED MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY PRACTITIONER (CMRP) certification.