The Role

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for defining criteria for the implementation and standardization of reliability engineering techniques, promoting best practices through short, medium, and long-term strategies focused on reducing equipment and system failures, particularly on critical assets. This role ensures operational efficiency, equipment reliability, and process continuity across the plant while maximizing profitability and fostering a TPM culture. The position also supports the Tooling Department in meeting maintenance programs and improving tooling service levels.

What You'll Do

• Analyze asset performance data and maintenance processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Review historical failure data, including downtime and frequency trends.
• Identify critical failure modes based on frequency, duration, and business impact.
• Participate in equipment and component failure analysis, generating recommendations and action plans.
• Apply reliability and process improvement methodologies to resolve chronic and repetitive failures.
• Develop, update, and maintain preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Create, modify, and maintain maintenance plans, route sheets, and maintenance tasks.
• Evaluate asset criticality and establish reliability strategies for critical equipment.
• Ensure critical assets have mandatory spare parts strategies and maintenance plans in place.
• Analyze equipment lifecycle data to determine remaining useful life and replacement strategies.
• Monitor equipment obsolescence and communicate risks associated with unsupported systems and components.
• Develop maintenance plans and reliability strategies for new equipment.
• Extract and apply OEM recommendations from equipment manuals and technical documentation.
• Maintain and update technical documentation, including drawings, operating manuals, spare parts manuals, and P&IDs.
• Manage the maintenance technical library and reliability documentation.
• Audit maintenance execution to ensure compliance with maintenance plans and design intent.
• Define maintenance tasks resulting from Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM/RCT), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and other improvement methodologies.
• Facilitate and participate in Root Cause Analysis investigations.
• Document findings, recommendations, and lessons learned from failure analyses.
• Manage redesign evaluations, improvement initiatives, and maintenance optimization projects.
• Review and approve spare parts additions, modifications, and deletions to support reliability strategies.
• Optimize maintenance frequencies based on asset performance and reliability data.
• Manage improvement work orders for equipment and process enhancements.
• Evaluate maintenance effectiveness and monitor daily performance of critical assets.
• Assess and prioritize continuous improvement ideas related to equipment reliability and maintainability.
• Develop and track maintenance and reliability KPIs.
• Capture and institutionalize technical knowledge gained from failures, maintenance execution, and improvement projects.
• Identify and escalate obsolescence risks that could impact mechanical, electrical, or control system reliability.
• Apply methodologies to determine maintenance strategies that ensure asset functionality, availability, and reliability.
• Lead the implementation of Reliability Engineering programs and Reliability-Centered Techniques (RCT), including:
  • Automatic lubrication systems
  • Vibration monitoring
  • Thermography
  • Ultrasound inspections
  • Predictive maintenance technologies
• Drive TPM culture and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with 5S standards within assigned areas.
• Support the Tooling Department to achieve maintenance program objectives and improve tooling service performance.

What We Look For

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, or related field.

Experience

• Preventive, Corrective, and Predictive Maintenance.
• Electrical, Mechanical, and Pneumatic Maintenance.
• Machinery and Tooling Maintenance.
• Asset Management and Reliability Engineering.
• Maintenance Planning and Optimization.
• Root Cause Analysis and Failure Analysis.

Technical Knowledge

• Reliability-Centered Techniques (RCT/RCM).
• Lubrication programs and lubricant management.
• Asset Management methodologies.
• Predictive Maintenance Technologies.
• Vibration Analysis.
• Ultrasound Monitoring.
• Thermography.
• Equipment Condition Monitoring.
• Reliability and Maintenance KPIs.
• Spare Parts Strategy and Inventory Optimization.
• Equipment Lifecycle Management.
• TPM (Total Productive Maintenance).

Core Competencies

• Customer Focus.
• Service Orientation.
• Proactive Mindset.
• Teamwork and Collaboration.
• Leadership.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Process Discipline.
• Employee Development.
• Problem Solving.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset.

Safety, Quality & Environmental Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with ISO 14001 environmental requirements applicable to the position.
• Act appropriately during environmental emergencies and stop any activity that may negatively impact the environment.
• Follow and enforce all applicable Occupational Health and Safety Management System procedures.
• Report and, when necessary, stop activities that could endanger employees, contractors, visitors, or company facilities.
• Participate in occupational health and safety incident investigations when required.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Quality Management System requirements.
• Promote and maintain a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible workplace.

About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF). 

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Equal Employment Opportunity:
Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email [email protected].

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