Reliability Engineer

Enviri Corporation•Seven Fields, PA

About The Position

The Reliability Engineer improves equipment reliability, reduces downtime, and drives continuous improvement across steel production and environmental systems. The role leads root cause failure analyses, develops and implements corrective actions, and works with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to improve asset performance, safety, and environmental compliance. The position coordinates reliability efforts across sites, promotes best-practice sharing, and communicates lessons learned and equipment performance data. It assesses equipment condition and maintenance practices, supports investigations and corrective-action plans, and maintains reliability documentation. The engineer also develops standardized preventive maintenance strategies and technical standards, supports equipment sourcing and lifecycle decisions, and maintains a network-wide condition-monitoring strategy.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical field; alternatively, 5+ years of relatable engineering experience in an industrial environment.
5+ years of reliability, maintenance, or engineering experience in a steel, heavy industrial, manufacturing, or environmental operations environment.
Experience with root cause analysis methodologies.
Knowledge of maintenance and reliability best practices, including predictive and preventive maintenance.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, project management, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with CMMS systems and reliability data analysis.

Responsibilities

Build relationships with site maintenance supervisors and coordinate across sites and functions, including procurement and IT, to develop long-term solutions.
Promote continuous improvement and sharing of best practices across the site network.
Compile and communicate lessons learned, vendor performance data, and component life data, including OEE, MTBF, MTTR, and downtime.
Assess equipment condition and maintenance practices to identify reliability and performance gaps, develop corrective measures with site supervisors, and follow up on implementation.
Lead root cause analyses for significant or recurring equipment maintenance needs across the network and drive corrective and preventive actions through closure.
Assist site maintenance supervisors with root cause analysis methods, investigations, and corrective and preventive action plans.
Maintain reliability files and records, including failure history, root cause analysis documentation, and preventive maintenance standards.
Develop and standardize preventive maintenance strategies across sites and asset classes based on failure history and duty cycle.
Define technical specifications and standards for major components and equipment, and recommend safeguards to prevent recurring failures and unplanned downtime.
Provide technical sourcing support to procurement, including specification input for equipment purchases.
Provide insights for equipment lifecycle decisions, including repair versus replace, refurbish versus new, and in-house versus OEM service.
Develop and maintain a network-wide condition-monitoring strategy, including tool coordination, ownership, and scale-up planning.