Reliability Engineer III

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Cincinnati, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s oral solid dose (OSD) site in Cincinnati, Ohio, supported by over 800 employees, offers various drug development and commercial manufacturing services. These services include controlled and sustained release solid oral dosage forms, osmotic release dosage forms (laser drilling), liquid fill hard capsules, controlled substances manufacturing, and abuse-deterrent dosage forms. The Reliability Engineer is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for maximizing the operational availability, compliance, and lifecycle health of critical site-wide utility systems, infrastructure, and core pharmaceutical process equipment across a multi-product manufacturing campus. This position will focus heavily on managing risk for critical utility assets (e.g., HVAC, clean steam, and life safety systems) while actively supporting sterile and commercial manufacturing spaces in operational states. The ideal candidate will utilize data-driven reliability analysis, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles to minimize unplanned downtime, prevent regulatory deviations, and optimize maintenance strategies.

Requirements

BS in Engineering required (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Bio) + 3–5 years of reliability/maintenance experience.
AS Technical Degree + 5–6 years of manufacturing maintenance experience.
Strong electro-mechanical knowledge
Data-driven decision-making
Excellent cross-functional communication

Nice To Haves

ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
SAP proficiency
Pharma/GMP environment experience

Responsibilities

Develop and execute cost-effective preventive (PM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) programs for equipment, life safety, and infrastructure assets.
Lead & assist root cause investigations (RCA) and failure mode effects analyses (FMEA) to eliminate chronic equipment failures and downtime.
Track equipment uptime, PM completion rates, and conduct asset health assessments for capital expenditure (CAPEX) planning.
Standardize common systems and parts to streamline maintenance and reduce facility risk.
Conducts health assessments on critical assets to determine risks and lifecycle status of the equipment.
Drive initiatives to standardize systems and parts for common systems.
In-process new capital equipment, establishing maintenance strategies, spare parts inventories, and calibration coordination.
Support OSD manufacturing spaces and cutting-edge process equipment without disrupting live production.
Assist with startup, commissioning, qualification and requalification of new and existing plant assets.
Derives spare parts strategies for systems based on assessments taking into account impact, availability and cost.
Ensure all work adheres to 21 CFR cGMP regulations, site SOPs, and safety codes.
Author SOPs, job plans, and maintenance logs to preserve equipment histories.
Coordinate seamlessly with Production, Quality, Validation, Maintenance, and external contractors.
When required, may support training operators, technicians and maintenance staff on techniques for managing equipment to improve reliability/uptime.
Support development of key metrics and tracking adherence to targets including PM completion rates, Equipment uptime %, Equipment related PRs, Work order submissions and closures by system.
Other tasks that may fall under the umbrella of reliability engineering.