Reliability Engineer, Maintenance CoE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with manufacturing facilities, maintenance teams, engineering departments, equipment vendors, and technical specialists to enhance equipment reliability and maintenance effectiveness.

• Design and refine equipment maintenance and reliability strategies across various manufacturing sites.

• Evaluate equipment performance and maintenance data to pinpoint issues, recurring failures, and areas for improvement.

• Utilize maintenance downtime, MTBF, MTTR, repeat failures, PM performance, and maintenance history to prioritize enhancements.

• Conduct and facilitate root cause analyses for significant and recurring equipment failures, assisting in the development of corrective actions.

• Implement FMEA, equipment criticality, and reliability-centered maintenance principles to assess risks and maintenance requirements.

• Review preventive maintenance programs to enhance task content, frequencies, and overall effectiveness.

• Identify opportunities to shift from time-based preventive maintenance to condition-based and predictive maintenance.

• Strengthen connections between equipment failure modes and maintenance tasks.

• Assist in maintenance planning, scheduling, backlog management, work order quality, job plans, and failure coding using SAP or other CMMS/EAM systems.

• Enhance the quality of maintenance and reliability data and promote common standards across manufacturing sites.

• Engage in site maintenance assessments to identify gaps and potential improvements.

• Support predictive maintenance and asset health initiatives, including vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and oil analysis.

• Collaborate with OEE and Industrial Engineering teams to translate equipment availability losses into improvement opportunities.

• Provide maintenance and reliability insights for new and modified equipment, participating in design and maintainability reviews.

• Work with OEM technical and service teams on troubleshooting, equipment repair, failure analysis, and reliability enhancement.

• Assess the technical performance of OEM and third-party maintenance providers.

• Document lessons learned and disseminate successful practices across sites.

• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or another relevant technical field with 5 or more years of experience in manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, industrial maintenance, equipment reliability, or a related technical area, OR a Master's degree in engineering with 3 or more years of relevant experience.

• Proven experience with industrial/manufacturing equipment and troubleshooting equipment issues.

• Demonstrated experience in participating in or facilitating root cause analyses and structured problem-solving initiatives.

• Skilled in analyzing equipment and maintenance data to identify trends and recurring issues.

• Familiarity with equipment reliability principles and maintenance work-management fundamentals, including work orders, preventive maintenance, planning, scheduling, and backlog management.

• Experience with a CMMS/EAM system.

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

• Preferred: Experience with SAP PM/EAM.

• Preferred: Knowledge of FMEA, RCM, asset criticality, or PM optimization.

• Preferred: Experience in analyzing MTBF, MTTR, equipment downtime, or other reliability metrics.

• Preferred: Exposure to predictive or condition-based maintenance technologies, including vibration analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasound, or oil analysis.

• Preferred: Experience with automated or complex manufacturing equipment.

• Preferred: Background in working with OEMs or third-party equipment service providers.

• Preferred: Familiarity with maintenance planning and scheduling or maintenance work-management improvements.

• Preferred: Understanding of OEE and equipment availability.

• Preferred: Experience in participating in equipment installation, commissioning, or capital equipment projects.

• Preferred: Knowledge of equipment maintainability, spare parts requirements, or maintenance-readiness reviews.

• Preferred: Reliability or maintenance training/certification, or an interest in pursuing certifications such as CMRP or predictive maintenance certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Short-term disability

• Long-term disability

• 401(k) match

• Flexible spending accounts

• Flexible work schedules

• Employee assistance program

• Employee Scholar Program

• Parental leave

• Paid time off

• Holidays

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (eligibility dependent on position and collective-bargaining coverage)