Reliability Engineer - Electrical

Oak Ridge National Laboratory•Oak Ridge, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Reliability Engineer who will focus on developing, implementing, and improving a reliability and asset management program for predictive operations for the systems within the Facilities and Operations (F&O) Directorate. This position resides in the Reliability Engineering Team in the Infrastructure Reliability Group in the Integrated Operations Support Division, F&O Directorate, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As part of our team, you will collaborate with system stakeholders and various operations personnel to employ the reliability program for F&O managed equipment throughout ORNL facilities and systems. This position will provide reliability cultural leadership to system stakeholders to build a sustainable reliability and asset management program. As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80-year history of solving the nation’s biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people! Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice. These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL’s broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

Requirements

A BS/BA degree in Engineering with a minimum of five years of experience.
Facility operations/maintenance experience.
Familiarity with electrical and mechanical systems.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with ISO 55000.
Familiarity with reliability and industrial engineering methods/processes such as: FMEA, RCA, Lean Six Sigma, etc.
Maintenance and work planning.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Ability to function well in a fast-paced operations environment, set priorities to accomplish multiple tasks within deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities.
Motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently and to participate creatively in collaborative teams across the laboratory.

Responsibilities

Support modeling facility power systems using SKM and conduct the necessary analysis which includes short circuit analysis, protective device coordination, equipment evaluation, arc flash and shock hazard analysis.
Engage in meetings and walkthroughs to understand and quantify the scope of work and gather data from facility electrical systems.
Extract crucial information from electrical drawings, legacy drawings, field data, and submittments.
Complete initial CMMS system hierarchies for electrical and mechanical systems as needed.
Monitor and analyze facility systems, develop logs, and communicate system conditions to stakeholders.
Work with reliability and facility engineers to work on developing predictive maintenance tasks and schedules for assets, along with diagnosing system statuses and initiating corrective actions.
Trend, analyze, and interpret facility system performance data and provide system engineers with performance reports.
Work with system stakeholders to develop and maintain system training modules, operating procedures, and alarm response procedures.
Collaborate with craft and system engineers to identify processes improvement needs and document/fix vulnerabilities.
Work with system stakeholders to document system integration and interfaces and the impact of cascading failures (FMEA).
Create and revise system one-line drawings.
Work with facility system stakeholders for labeling system components to match drawings.
Support asset tracking and populating the CMMS with system and maintenance information.
Support and implement the F&O directorate strategic predictive operations plan.
Provide input into the development of program sustainability.
Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opportunity by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.