Reliability Engineer

Bonnell Aluminum • Carthage, TN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Bonnell Aluminum, a division of Tredegar Corporation, is seeking a Reliability Engineer for its manufacturing plant in Carthage, Tennessee. The role improves equipment availability, operating stability, and lifecycle performance across the plant by owning asset reliability strategy, equipment criticality rankings, multi-year reliability roadmaps, and maintenance strategies for critical and aging assets. It also identifies obsolescence, single-point-of-failure, controls, utilities, and spare-parts risks and supports repair-versus-replace and life-cycle-cost decisions.

The Reliability Engineer works with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, and plant leadership to lead defect elimination, optimize preventive and predictive maintenance, strengthen reliability data, build plant capability, and incorporate maintainability into equipment design and commissioning. The role analyzes equipment history, production losses, maintenance performance, and process data to prioritize improvements that reduce repeat failures and support safety, quality, throughput, and operating stability. Its focus is long-term asset reliability, defect elimination, maintenance strategy, and technical risk reduction; daily maintenance execution, scheduling, and workforce coordination remain the responsibility of maintenance supervision and planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline; alternatively, an equivalent combination of advanced technical training, reliability credentials, and progressive industrial reliability experience, subject to company job requirements.
• Minimum 5 years of engineering, reliability, maintenance, controls, or equipment-improvement experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing equipment failures and leading corrective actions that produce sustained results.
• Working knowledge of hydraulic systems and industrial electrical or controls systems, with strong electromechanical troubleshooting capability.
• Experience improving preventive maintenance and applying predictive or condition-monitoring technologies.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system, equipment history, and operational data to prioritize work and measure results.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and control-system drawings and documentation.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate technical issues clearly to operators, technicians, engineers, and leaders.
• Commitment to safe work, risk reduction, environmental compliance, and disciplined management of change.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Certified Reliability Leader (CRL), or an equivalent reliability credential.
• Vibration, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, or similar condition-monitoring certification.
• Professional Engineer license or advanced technical degree.
• Experience with aluminum extrusion, metals processing, finishing, anodizing, paint systems, machining, or fabrication.
• Experience with reliability-centered maintenance, failure mode and effects analysis, failure reporting, analysis, and corrective-action systems, criticality analysis, life-cycle costing, precision maintenance, or condition monitoring.
• Experience improving a CMMS or enterprise asset management system's asset hierarchy and failure-coding structure.
• Reliability support experience with hydraulic presses, furnaces, ovens, saws, conveyors, pumps, fans, motors, drives, controls, utilities, and automated production systems.
• Experience building maintainability and spare-parts requirements into equipment design, commissioning, and acceptance.

Responsibilities

• Develop equipment criticality rankings and asset-management strategies, selecting appropriate run-to-failure, preventive, predictive, condition-based, or redesign approaches based on criticality, failure modes, operating context, and business risk.
• Maintain a multi-year reliability roadmap for critical and aging assets.
• Partner with Maintenance and Supply Chain to improve equipment bills of materials, critical-spare lists, and CMMS spare-parts information.
• Support repair-versus-replace and life-cycle-cost decisions by quantifying effects on safety, quality, throughput, capacity, and cost.
• Lead structured root-cause analyses for significant, repeat, chronic, and high-risk failures; ensure corrective actions address physical, human, and systemic causes, verify completion, and confirm failures do not recur.
• Facilitate cross-functional defect-elimination teams.
• Improve preventive and predictive maintenance tasks and eliminate ineffective or duplicative work.
• Establish condition-monitoring routes, including vibration, thermography, ultrasound, oil analysis, motor testing, electrical inspection, and process-condition monitoring.
• Advance precision-maintenance practices and develop repeatable job plans and troubleshooting guides with technicians and planners.
• Build trustworthy failure coding, downtime data, asset hierarchy, maintenance history, and critical-spares information.
• Use CMMS, downtime, historian, control-system, and process data to identify failure patterns, bad actors, and early-warning indicators; turn analysis into prioritized recommendations and collaborate with plant leadership to define actionable reliability measures.
• Coach operators, technicians, supervisors, planners, and engineers in reliability practices, and strengthen operator basic care and early detection of abnormal conditions.
• Build maintainability, accessibility, standardization, and spare-parts considerations into new-equipment designs; participate in commissioning and equipment acceptance.
• Capture knowledge from experienced employees and develop standard troubleshooting methods for legacy and modern equipment.

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation, with salary based on experience.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Medical coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• Vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Accounts, including Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• People-focused culture built on the company's core values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Celebration, Communication, Trust, Diversity, and Accountability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level