Reliability Engineer
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Job description
Reliability Engineer (RE) provides a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability. The RE has a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates and maximize equipment reliability., * Defines and provides implementation support for recommendations that ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
- Provides reliability based technical support to Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management and Craft personnel.
- Gathers, reviews, and analyzes data concerning facility or equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) specifications.
- Reviews technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspectability features of systems, equipment and facilities including technical basis documentation, manuals and datasheets.
- Leads role in integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables.
- Develops proactive maintenance strategies for structures, systems and components.
- Conducts quipment Failure Mode Identification and Root Cause Failure Analysis.
- Conducts trend Analysis of structures, systems, and components.
- Defines, develops, implements, revises, and monitors Asset Management Plan(s) for structures, systems and components.
- Effective deployment of condition based, predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence.
- Completion and presentation of both RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses to the internal and external engineering partners.
- Performs analysis to include labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates MTBF, MTTR and life-cycle cost analysis.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program.
- 5+ years of Reliability Engineering experience or master's degree in engineering/physical science discipline with 2+ years of Reliability Engineering experience.
- Ability to work independently as well as work within a team environment and promote collaboration.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Interact with organizations across the Site.
- Present information clearly and effectively through oral and written communication.
- Ability to resolve complex issues, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
- 1 year of nuclear experience or a DOE approved alternative is needed for this position. (DOE 426.2 experience requirements can be satisfied following employment. In the interim, newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact on the safety basis of nuclear facilities).
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Successful drug screening.
- Requires an active U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance.
Benefits & conditions
BGS offers a competitive total compensation package to eligible employees. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Paid Vacation, 401K, Long and Short-Term Disability.