Senior Project Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate and guide Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) sessions for new capital projects and existing high-criticality systems.
• Evaluate equipment design & layouts during the design phase for accessibility and maintainability and provide recommended design changes for identified improvements.
• Provide technical guidance to project teams in the identification of potential reliability concerns and design changes to improve all process reliability.
• Complete critical spare needs evaluations for new capital projects.
• Assist in quoting, procurement and tracking of critical spares.
• Develop initial inspection, testing and maintenance plans, including frequencies and required tasks, for all assets in new capital projects.
• Compile critical asset data for new projects and format for entry in CMMS (Computerized Maintenance System).
• Develop Process Capacity Mapping and initial project acceptance criteria for all new projects.
• Investigate and analyze plant equipment failures by collecting failure causes, process data and equipment information.
• Develop and recommend solutions in design, maintenance procedures or equipment selections.
• Guide Root Cause Analysis into critical equipment failures.
• Use data-driven methods to identify systemic issues, implement permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence and leverage the lessons learned to similar equipment globally.
• Develop approaches for projecting asset lifecycle costs beginning in the design stages through asset end of life.
• Use KPI (e.g. Equipment Availability (uptime), Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)), historical data and industry standards to inform and guide decisions on equipment selection.
• Provide supportive guidance to junior engineers and maintenance technicians.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for equipment selection to ensure reliability.
• Support Plant Operations & Maintenance functions by providing technical guidance on equipment operation and maintenance procedures as priorities and opportunities allow.
• Position will be required to provide remote support to all ALAM projects globally which will require guiding and participating in technical discussions outside of normal business hours.
• Infrequent travel to international locations may be required.

Required Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering.
• 7+ years in a reliability or maintenance engineering role within a heavy industrial environment (Semiconductor, Fine Chemical preferred).
• Experience In Facilitating FMEA (AIAG-VGA Method Preferred).
• Experience developing maintenance procedures.
• Experience in generation of critical spare part recommendations based on failure analysis.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.
• Willing to have remote cross-continental meetings (between US and APAC), especially during critical phases of projects.
• Proficiency in CMMS (eMaint, SAP, Maximo).