Maintenance Reliability Engineer
My client is a well-established manufacturing organization that operates a large-scale continuous production facility with a strong focus on safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. The company invests heavily in the reliability of its assets and infrastructure, creating an environment where engineering professionals can make a visible impact on performance, uptime, and operational efficiency. Working within a collaborative culture, you'll partner closely with maintenance, engineering, operations, procurement, and external technical specialists to develop long-term reliability solutions and support ongoing plant improvements. The organization values technical expertise, ownership, and innovation, providing employees with opportunities to broaden their knowledge and contribute to strategic initiatives that support the site's ongoing success.
Job Description
Manage and optimize the site's computerized maintenance management system, ensuring the accuracy and effectiveness of equipment records, preventive maintenance programs, and asset hierarchies. Maintain and improve maintenance data, documentation, equipment history, and technical records to support informed maintenance decision-making. Lead maintenance-related activities associated with equipment modifications and change-management processes. Manage spare-parts data, inventory information, bills of materials, and material master records within ERP systems. Identify, evaluate, and optimize critical spare-part strategies for key plant equipment. Provide technical expertise on pumps, rotating equipment, mechanical systems, and related reliability challenges. Support troubleshooting, failure analysis, and equipment improvement initiatives alongside maintenance and operations teams. Coordinate external repair vendors and contractors, including repair scopes, technical reviews, and documentation management. Conduct equipment criticality assessments, root cause analyses, and preventive maintenance optimization projects. Develop and maintain technical standards, maintenance procedures, drawings, manuals, and equipment documentation. Support capital projects, equipment installations, commissioning activities, and maintenance handovers. Analyze maintenance and reliability data to identify trends, improve performance, and support continuous improvement efforts. Build strong working relationships with suppliers, OEMs, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
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The Successful Applicant
A successful Maintenance Reliability Engineer should have:
- Experience working with engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience within maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, rotating equipment, or industrial maintenance environments.
- Strong understanding of industrial mechanical systems, including pumps, bearings, seals, valves, couplings, piping systems, and rotating equipment.
- Experience working with CMMS platforms and asset management systems; CMMS administration experience is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, including spare-parts management, inventory controls, and equipment records.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, P&IDs, technical manuals, and equipment specifications.
- Familiarity with preventive maintenance programs, root cause analysis, equipment criticality assessments, and reliability best practices.
- Understanding of industrial safety standards and maintenance work processes.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated individual capable of managing technical projects and driving initiatives independently within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in chemical, food, power generation, refining, or other continuous-process manufacturing environments is advantageous.
What's on Offer
- Competitive compensation and bonus potential.
- Excellent benefits.
- Opportunity to join a stable and growing industrial manufacturing organization.
- High-impact individual contributor role with significant ownership and technical influence.
- Exposure to cross-functional teams across maintenance, engineering, operations, procurement, and leadership.
- Opportunity to lead reliability improvement initiatives that directly affect plant performance and operational efficiency.
- Diverse responsibilities spanning asset management, reliability engineering, rotating equipment, maintenance systems, and continuous improvement.
- Hands-on involvement with complex industrial equipment and critical manufacturing assets.
- Professional growth through collaboration with experienced engineering, maintenance, and technical teams.
- Exposure to major maintenance projects, equipment upgrades, reliability programs, and capital initiatives.
- Opportunity to develop expertise in CMMS administration, SAP asset management, reliability methodologies, and maintenance best practices.
- Collaborative workplace culture focused on safety, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.