Reliability Engineer

RTX•Asheville, NC

23d•$86,800 - $165,200•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems and has been revolutionizing modern flight for over 100 years. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. We are looking for a Reliability Engineer to mature the asset reliability program for a 1.2 million square foot advanced aerospace manufacturing facility. This role suits a mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineering background, or equivalent hands-on experience in facilities maintenance and reliability. You will refine an existing framework, criticality and PM strategy that is already established, by strengthening the data and metrics that measure program performance, and by serving as the technical point of contact for our Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) provider, coaching their planner and validating asset assessments against real operating history. This work protects production continuity by ensuring building infrastructure never becomes the reason the line stops. If you are a reliability professional who thrives in a high-growth industrial environment, and understands that the building feeds the machines, we want to hear from you. This role offers a direct line to leadership, a greenfield program to call your own, and the opportunity to establish the reliability foundation for one of the most significant manufacturing expansions in Pratt & Whitney's history.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or a related STEM field
Minimum 5 years of experience in industrial or manufacturing facilities maintenance and reliability OR and Advanced degree with 3+ Years of related experience.
Demonstrated experience developing a maintenance reliability program from an early or undeveloped state into a fully structured, mature system.
Hands-on working knowledge of facilities equipment including HVAC, compressed air systems, and electrical distribution
SAP PM module experience including functional location structure, equipment master record configuration, and maintenance task list development
Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident)

Nice To Haves

Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) through SMRP
Experience in aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability manufacturing environments
Experience supporting capital equipment commissioning and utility dependency documentation
Advanced degree in reliability, maintenance, or systems engineering

Responsibilities

Support Criticality-Based Maintenance Strategy: Refine PM task frequencies and failure mode logic within the site's criticality framework. Apply differentiated maintenance logic to N+1 systems, including chillers, pumps, and air handlers.
Maintain PM Program Standards: Maintain and improve maintenance work standards, including task scope, frequency, and failure modes, across critical mechanical equipment. Recommend program adjustments to leadership as operating data matures.
Track and Report Reliability KPIs: Track core reliability metrics, including preventive to reactive ratio, schedule compliance, mean time between failures, and backlog age. Identify and close data gaps limiting accurate metric reporting.
Coordinate with IFM Planning: Serve as technical point of contact for IFM planning and scheduling. Coach the IFM planner on work order quality, job scoping, and parts staging. Validate IFM asset replacement assessments against failure history and criticality.
Conduct Root Cause and Failure Analysis: Conduct RCA and FMEA for significant or recurring equipment failures. Translate findings into PM strategy updates.
Support Audit Readiness: Maintain maintenance records and failure history in a form that supports regulatory and quality audits, including FAA, ISO, and AS9100 requirements. Apply asset management principles, such as ISO 55000, to keep maintenance decisions traceable.
Support Critical Spares Strategy: Identify critical spare parts based on failure modes, lead time, and redundancy. Validate IFM's spares inventory levels against criticality and failure history.