Reliability Engineer

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

The Reliability Engineer (RE) provides technical and strategic expertise in terms of life cycle asset management and the associated practices to ensure maximum possible equipment performance and minimum asset care and preservation costs. The RE is Responsible for providing reliability engineering support to manufacturing departments with an emphasis on improving equipment Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability. REs work independently or as team members to assess, design, train and implement Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Asset Performance Trending, Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and reliability continuous improvement programs. The RE leverages continuous improvement tools such as FMEA, RCA, RCM, Total Cost of Ownership, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, and other statistical methods. REs hold expertise in process measurement as it relates to assessing asset performance trends as well as in documenting improvement results including preparing necessary reports, presentations, and training outlines .

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Process flow and equipment mapping
• Reliability Analysis
• Developing equipment system and relationship hierarchies
• Performing critical asset analysis and determine risk priority values for various equipment
• Perform RCM/FMEA for equipment
• Develop equipment maintenance plans that contain failure modes mapped to technologies or tasks
• Create both predictive and preventive maintenance strategies
• Coordinate the implementation of the reliability-based minor projects
• Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Define reliability-based queries and reports to support a continuous improvement process
• Obsolete Part equivalency reviews

Required Education, Skills, and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other Technical degree. An Associates degree in a technical field working towards a BS with 10+ years maintenance/operations experience can be substituted.
• Ability to interpret, analyze, and present technical information using practical judgment
• Capable of functioning effectively in a team environment and work independently to progress initiatives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills in group settings as well as one-on-one
• Knowledge of data gathering and analysis techniques, including statistical analysis
• Proficient conducting data analysis and using data analysis software applications
• Knowledge of standard quality and reliability tools such as FMEA (Failure Modes Effect Analysis), Weibull Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and Statistics

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Understanding of product reliability goals, reliability growth, and reliability prediction
• 5 to 10 years of experience in a manufacturing environment

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com .

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