Reliability Engineer

Consolidated Nuclear Security•Oak Ridge, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Reliability Engineer (RE) provides a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability. The RE has a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates and maximize equipment reliability.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Engineering/Physical Science [Chemistry, Physics, or related] from an Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program in United States or designated equivalents from Canada or Mexico, the Washington Accord, or the list of substantially equivalent as documented by ABET AND 4 years of relevant experience.
OR MS in Engineering /Physical science and 2 years of relevant experience.
OR PhD in Engineering /Physical science.
3.0/4.0 minimum cumulative GPA for Bachelor's degree
3.3 minimum cumulative GPA for Master's degree
3.5 minmum cumulative GPA for Ph.D.
In addition, the applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., Baccalaureate in engineering or related scientific major 2 years job-related, and 1-year nuclear experience; or a DOE O 426.2A alternative).
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status.
The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
CNS is a drug-free workplace.
Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation.
As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter.
U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants.
All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.

Nice To Haves

BS in Electrical Engineering discipline with 2+ years of Reliability Engineering experience or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering discipline with 2+ years of Reliability Engineering experience
Experience in reading & understanding electrical drawings and schematics
Knowledge of common failure modes and maintenance strategies of electrical components
Ability to work independently as well as work within a team environment and promote collaboration
Strong interpersonal skills
Interact with organizations across the Site
Present information on clearly and effectively through the oral and written communication
Ability to resolve complex issues, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to multi -task in a fast-paced work environment

Responsibilities

Defines and provides implementation support for recommendations that ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems
Provides reliability based technical support to Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management and Craft personnel
Gathers, reviews, and analyzes data concerning facility or equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) specifications
Review technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspectability features of systems, equipment and facilities including, technical basis documentation, manuals and data-sheets
Lead role in integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables
Development of proactive maintenance strategies for structures, systems and components
Equipment Failure Mode Identification and Root Cause Failure Analysis
Trend Analysis of structures, systems, and components
Defines, develops, implements, revises, and monitors Asset Management Plan(s) for structures, systems and components
Effective deployment of condition based, predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence
Completion and presentation of both RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses to internal and external engineering partners. Analysis to include labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates MTBF, MTTR and life-cycle cost analysis.