Reliability Engineer 2

Amentum•US-FL-Kennedy Space Center-KSC KPLSS (FL979), FL

52d•$85,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Reliability Engineer for the Kennedy Propellants and Life Support Services (KPLSS II) program acts as a lean maintenance Systems Maintenance Engineer (SME) and adds support to maintenance teams with the development of strategies that help create processes and programs able to sustain low operating costs and improve asset reliability at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) FL. This position not only performs evaluations, but also trains teams to identify and eliminate waste, reduce operating and maintenance costs, and increase uptime.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, or related scientific field and three years of job related experience.
Knowledgeable of best in class maintenance practices and predictive maintenance activities.
Strong written, verbal communication, and analytical skills.
Ability to travel as needed.
Position may require the ability to pass and maintain a Security Clearance.
Must be able to successfully pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).
US citizenship is required for restricted area access.
A driver's license is required to independently travel onto and around KSC property.

Nice To Haves

Local candidates.
No relocation allowance provided.

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains Reliability Programs and creates a model that can be utilized across the KPLSS II Contract.
Proactively identifies potential project problems or opportunities and analyzes the issues, using all appropriate resources, to develop the optimum approach to mitigating problems and/or exploiting opportunities.
Identifies opportunities, perform root cause analysis, and develop reliability standards associated with proprietary machine tools and testing equipment.
Generate and follow through to completion all Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for improved reliability of key assets and value streams.
Lead overall completion of Root Cause and Corrective Actions.
Support spare parts critical spares generation and share responsibility for ongoing spare parts management program that meets reliability targets.
Weekly lead continuous improvement activities and communicate wins and barriers to client and Amentum management teams.
Perform high level maintenance planning and management.
Plan for shutdowns, turnarounds, and plant outages.
Develop predictive maintenance strategies and training tools.
Perform risk-based asset management and root cause analysis.
Lead reliability and operations excellence.
Support various special projects, asset management, troubleshooting, and metric and performance measurement development.
Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.