Reliability Engineer
Manufacturing & Production · Production & Assembly · Manufacturing Engineering
In short
Emerson seeks a Reliability Engineer in Erie, PA, to enhance equipment availability and reduce downtime in foundry operations. This role involves leading maintenance systems, predictive maintenance, and root cause analysis to foster a reliability-focused culture.
Responsibilities
- Improve equipment reliability, availability, and maintainability across all foundry processes.
- Establish and maintain asset criticality rankings to prioritize reliability resources.
- Identify chronic and high-impact equipment issues and develop plans to eliminate recurring failures.
- Own and administer the plant CMMS, including asset hierarchy, equipment records, PM programs, and reporting.
- Train employees on work-request, work-order, and maintenance-history requirements.
- Develop and optimize preventive maintenance based on asset criticality, failure history, and OEM guidance.
- Evaluate and implement condition-based and predictive maintenance practices.
- Lead or facilitate structured root cause failure analysis for significant, repeat, and high-cost equipment failures.
- Define critical-spare requirements based on asset criticality, failure risk, lead time, and usage history.
- Provide engineering support for maintenance, equipment, utility, and facility improvement projects.
- Develop scopes, technical specifications, cost estimates, and risk assessments for improvement projects.
- Develop and report actionable maintenance and reliability measures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline; or an associate or technical degree combined with substantial relevant industrial maintenance and reliability experience.
- Three or more years of engineering, maintenance, or reliability experience in manufacturing or industrial operations.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, and utility equipment.
- Experience using a CMMS to manage asset records, PMs, job plans, failure history, backlog, and maintenance performance.
- Demonstrated use of structured problem-solving or root-cause methods.
- Ability to lead cross-functional improvement projects and communicate effectively with skilled trades, operators, supervisors, engineers, suppliers, and plant leadership.
- Strong organization, project management, and data-analysis skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word and CAD.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States – sponsorship will not be provided.
Desired Qualifications
- Foundry, metals, machining, heavy-industrial, or process-manufacturing experience.
- Experience with DISA molding, sand systems, furnaces, dust collection, cranes, conveyors, core-making, machining, compressed air, cooling-water, or comparable industrial systems.
- Experience with Maintenance Connection or a comparable CMMS or EAM platform.
- Predictive-maintenance experience in vibration, thermography, ultrasound, oil analysis, or motor and electrical testing.
- Knowledge of FMEA, Reliability Centered Maintenance, TPM, autonomous maintenance, and equipment failure analysis.
- PLC and industrial controls troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with capital projects, shutdowns, equipment installation, and commissioning.
- CMRP, CRL, vibration-analysis, thermography, or other relevant reliability certification.
- AutoCAD, Inventor, or other CAD software experience.
Benefits
- Variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- 401(k).
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee resource groups.
- Recognition programs.
- Flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.
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Company
Emerson
Job Posted
10 hours ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
Erie, United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Diploma, Undergraduate
Applicants
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