Reliability Engineer

JOB PURPOSE

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for improving equipment reliability eliminating chronic losses and stabilizing production assets through engineering-led maintenance strategies. This role sits within the Maintenance Department serves as the technical owner of loss elimination defining asset reliability strategies and standards to transition the plant from reactive to preventive and predictive maintenance. Working closely with Maintenance and Operations this position ensures asset strategies and improvements permanently eliminate failure modes impacting Safety Quality Production and Cost. The role focuses on defining and driving reliability strategy and is not responsible for day-to-day maintenance execution.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Reliability & Loss Elimination

• Identify and prioritize chronic losses and bad actor assets using downtime cost and defect data
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent solutions to eliminate repeat failures
• Develop and maintain reliability strategies for critical equipment
• Use data to validate improvements and track results
• Drive prioritization of reliability efforts based on business impact (Safety Quality Cost Delivery)
• Ensure solutions are sustained through standards PMs and procedures

Maintenance Strategy & Standards

• Define and optimize maintenance strategies (PM PdM run-to-failure) based on failure modes and asset criticality
• Improve PM effectiveness through failure-mode-driven tasks
• Drive continuous improvement of maintenance plans using CMMS data and feedback
• Eliminate non-value-added PMs and improve maintenance efficiency
• Ensure maintenance strategies prevent repeat failures
• Develop SMPs and standards

Plant Floor Engagement & Capability Building

• Work directly on the plant floor to validate failures and root causes
• Coach maintenance and operations teams in RCA and reliability thinking
• Partner with Operations to reduce misuse and avoidable losses
• Support implementation of practical sustainable improvements
• Support capital projects related to fixed equipment process improvement utilities and facilities

Continuous Improvement & Governance

• Apply structured improvement methodologies (TPM/WCM focused improvement)
• Embed reliability improvements into daily operations
• Collaborate across Engineering Maintenance Quality and Operations
• Maintain reliability data to support decision-making

Digital & Predictive Capability

• Apply condition monitoring techniques (vibration thermography oil analysis)
• Support development of predictive maintenance strategies
• Use data and analytics to improve asset performance

Key Deliverables

• Reduce downtime and improve asset reliability (MTBF / MTTR / BD% PMs )
• Eliminate chronic failures and bad actors
• Improve effectiveness of maintenance strategies
• Deliver sustained improvements through data
• Increase capability of maintenance and operations teams

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in engineering: Mechanical Chemical or equivalent
• 5 years of related experience in FMCG chemical oil & gas pharmaceutical or automotive industry
• Strong understanding of maintenance and reliability fundamentals (breakdown analysis failure modes RCA FMEA bad-actor analysis)
• Experience using data to drive decisions
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance
• Familiarity with CMMS systems
• CAD experience (e.g. SolidWorks AutoCAD)
• 3D printing or rapid prototyping experience
• Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance experience
• Experience using digital tools or analytics
  

Pay: The pay range for this position is $88600 to 133000. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets experience and training licensure and certifications qualifications and education and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

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