Senior Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Senior Reliability Engineer ensures that systems, products, or equipment operate reliably over their expected lifespan by identifying potential failures, mitigating risks, and optimizing performance. The Senior Reliability Engineer role is to identify and manage asset reliability risks. They track the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets, then find ways to reduce those losses or high costs. Senior Reliability Engineer develops a plan to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis, obtains approval of the plan and facilitates the implementation. Within the Alphia organization, this plays a critical role by applying maintenance & reliability principles to predict, prevent, and mitigate failures. They collaborate with maintenance, engineers, manufacturing teams, safety teams, and quality assurance to enhance system reliability. The employee may be frequently exposed to allergens and/or airborne particles in the production area. Production employees are exposed to temperatures ranging from 50 to 115 degrees, depending on the season and workstation, and maybe working near moving mechanical parts. Occasional exposure to outdoor weather conditions may occur. The noise level in the work environment may be loud while production equipment is running. Personal Protection Equipment (including, but not limited to, boots, gloves, safety glasses, and/or face shields) is required during various processes in the production area. Ear plugs and bump caps are required at all times in the production area.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing reliability strategies to enhance system performance and longevity
• Conducting Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to proactively identify potential failures
• Perform reliability analyses such as FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis), RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance), and root cause analysis (RCA) to identify potential system failures and recommend corrective actions.
• Know the process and help to conduct 5S projects as it pertains to Maintenance and MRO.
• Developing preventive and predictive maintenance plans based on data analysis
• Monitoring system performance and identifying reliability issues using statistical tools and reliability modeling
• Evaluate equipment failure modes and utilize engineering experience and training to develop solutions for eliminating/mitigating potential failure
• Monitor equipment performance and evaluate equipment history and failure trends to determine sources of poor component performance
• Lead targeted initiatives to improve throughput, yield, labor utilization, and equipment reliability
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce new processes/technologies, automation solutions, and equipment upgrades to enhance capability and efficiency
• Leadership Skills Coordinate internal stakeholders, contractors, and equipment suppliers to ensure alignment and accountability.
• Providing technical guidance and training to team members and maintaining reliability metrics and reports
• Ensure compliance with all safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory standards
• Technical support for factory and corporate maintenance functions.
• Development and review of technical and operational standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Technical Expertise Provide support to maintenance, engineering, operations, safety, CI, and quality teams
• Participate in problem solving and root cause analysis for production issues.
• Collaborate with Finance to quantify savings, build business cases, validate financial impact, and ensure benefits are sustained in the P&L.
• Partner with all manufacturing locations to develop Reliability Best Practices and to collaboratively work through common issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical or Manufacturing Engineering
• 5-7+ years of experience