Senior Reliability Engineer (Michigan)
Role details
Job location
Tech stack
Job description
Lead reliability assessments and improvement initiatives across electrical, mechanical, and controls-related infrastructure.
Review facility acceptance and commissioning activities to ensure systems are delivered in a reliable, supportable, and maintainable condition.
Design and improve maintenance strategies that enhance uptime, reduce maintenance complexity, and optimize lifecycle performance.
Lead root cause analysis and corrective action development for significant or recurring reliability issues.
Analyze asset utilization, maintenance history, performance trends, and failure patterns to drive data-backed improvements.
Develop risk mitigation plans for operational vulnerabilities, latent failure modes, obsolescence risks, and supportability gaps.
Provide senior technical support and guidance to Site Operations during critical failures, abnormal events, and high-consequence troubleshooting.
Influence design, construction, and turnover decisions by providing reliability and maintainability feedback on new and modified systems.
Support development of standard methodologies for lifecycle planning, spare parts analysis, RAM analysis, and site response procedures.
Mentor less experienced reliability engineers and help raise the technical bar across the function.
Requirements
6-10 years of experience in critical facilities, reliability engineering, commissioning, maintenance engineering, or uptime-critical infrastructure environments.
Broad familiarity with mission-critical electrical, mechanical, and controls systems and how they interact operationally.
Experience leading RCAs, maintenance strategy improvements, and technical support in live facility environments.
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field preferred; equivalent industry experience also valued.
Preferred Skills / Certifications
Experience with commissioning reviews, reliability analytics, lifecycle cost analysis, or maintenance strategy design.
Familiarity with BMS/EPMS/controls data, asset health modeling, or fleet reliability practices.
Advanced knowledge of critical environment operations or design is a plus
CMRP, CRE, or related reliability certification is a plus.
Responsibilities
Skills and Competencies
Strong technical judgment and systems thinking.
Strong data analysis and structured problem-solving capability.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
Strong communication with technical and operational stakeholders.
Ability to translate operational issues into scalable reliability improvements.
Physical Demands / Work Environment
This role supports mission-critical data center environments and may require regular travel to active sites, turnover events, and operational reviews. You must be able to walk sites, climb stairs, and work safely in industrial environments, with or without reasonable accommodation. Source roles note travel ranging from roughly 25% to 50% depending on specialty and business need.
Benefits & conditions
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $120,100 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC5
About the company
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
Our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities.