Reliability Engineer

Veolia Environmental Services • Chicago, IL

46d • Hybrid

About The Position

Veolia Australia & New Zealand is seeking a motivated Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, availability, maintainability, and whole-of-life performance of wastewater treatment assets across the Wellington Region. This role offers the chance to make a practical contribution to essential infrastructure while collaborating with operations, maintenance, asset management, and project teams. The engineer will provide expertise across wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, a thermal dryer facility, sludge minimization facility, and associated infrastructure, focusing on identifying and eliminating equipment failure causes, optimizing maintenance strategies, improving asset performance, and supporting safe, compliant, and cost-effective operations.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Asset Management, or a related discipline.
• At least three years’ experience in reliability, maintenance, asset management, or engineering.
• Experience in water, wastewater, utilities, manufacturing, process industries, or other critical infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering and maintenance management principles.
• Experience with RCM, FMEA, RCA, criticality analysis, and lifecycle asset management.
• The ability to read and interpret P&IDs and understand process flows, equipment interactions, and failure pathways.
• Experience analysing maintenance records, failure data, condition monitoring results, and asset performance trends.
• Strong problem-solving, reporting, and stakeholder communication skills.
• A sound understanding of risk assessment and criticality analysis.
• A strong commitment to safety, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance.
• Must be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, or similar process environments.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or equivalent.
• Training or certification in RCA, RCM, FMEA, or condition monitoring.
• Qualifications in vibration analysis, thermography, motor current analysis, non-destructive testing, or other condition monitoring disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver reliability improvement initiatives using recognised methodologies, including Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), asset criticality and risk assessment, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance optimisation, and lifecycle asset management.
• Work across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control systems, civil, and process assets, using data and engineering judgment to support informed asset management decisions.
• Develop and implement reliability improvement plans for critical assets.
• Identify reliability risks, recurring failures, and opportunities to reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs.
• Develop and maintain asset criticality assessments.
• Review and optimise preventive and predictive maintenance programmes.
• Facilitate RCM, FMEA, maintenance strategy, and maintenance optimisation reviews.
• Lead or support investigations into significant, recurring, or high-consequence equipment failures.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis using appropriate methods, including 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, fault tree analysis, and causal factor analysis.
• Develop, monitor, and close out corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyse data from CMMS, SCADA, historians, condition monitoring systems, and other sources.
• Develop reliability reports, dashboards, and practical recommendations.
• Monitor asset availability, reliability, maintainability, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance compliance, backlog, and unplanned downtime.
• Support asset replacement, renewal, upgrade, capital works, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Assist with critical spares strategies and shutdown or outage planning.
• Provide technical support during equipment failures, abnormal operating conditions, and plant performance issues.
• Support the continual improvement of the Asset Management System in alignment with ISO 55001 principles.
• Promote a proactive maintenance and continuous improvement culture across the Wellington Region.

Benefits

• Work with highly motivated professionals in a supportive and collaborative environment
• Opportunity to work across a complex, multi-faceted contract environment
• Experience that will make a huge impact on communities
• Employee assistance programs (EAP) through assure which covers mental health, nutrition, financial, legal, coaching and career transition support
• Competitive remuneration
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Stable employment with a reputable organisation

What This Job Offers

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