Reliability & Equipment Engineer

Corteva Agriscience • Valdosta, GA

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About The Position

The Maintenance & Reliability Engineer improves equipment reliability, maintainability, availability, and overall asset performance while supporting safe, efficient, and cost-effective manufacturing operations. The role serves as a technical resource for maintenance execution and reliability improvement, applying engineering principles, reliability tools, and maintenance best practices to maximize equipment life-cycle value and support business objectives.

The position develops and executes equipment reliability and maintenance strategies, identifies and eliminates root causes of equipment failures, improves asset performance, and maintains accurate maintenance information, procedures, and documentation within the maintenance management system. It supports day-to-day maintenance as well as long-term reliability initiatives that enable the Area Business Team to meet business requirements safely and effectively.

The engineer also supports Process Safety Management and Asset Integrity requirements, including compliance of maintenance strategies, inspection programs, repair procedures, and equipment integrity practices with site and regulatory standards. The role promotes Continuous Improvement methodologies and supports improvement efforts and development of CI capabilities throughout the organization. VISA sponsorship is not available for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or related discipline).
• Minimum of 3 years of maintenance, reliability, manufacturing, or industrial engineering experience.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and ability to quickly learn new systems and software.
• Demonstrated problem-solving, analytical, project management, and time management capabilities.
• Occasional off-hour and weekend support for plant outages and unplanned events.
• Commitment to all site safety and environmental requirements.
• Ability to communicate effectively with personnel at all organizational levels.
• Strong organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple work processes and functional teams.
• Self-starter able to manage multiple priorities and drive tasks to completion.
• Completion and comprehension of Continuous Improvement Foundation courses and relevant CI Plus courses is required.
• Training in CI Foundations, including brainstorming, Fishbone Analysis, Why-Why Analysis, prioritization, and project charter development.
• CI Plus training in Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Kaizen facilitation, and other CI workshop methodologies.

Nice To Haves

• Five or more years of maintenance, reliability, manufacturing, or engineering experience in a chemical processing or industrial environment.
• Experience leading Root Cause Analysis investigations.
• Experience developing detailed maintenance procedures and job plans.
• Knowledge of Reliability Engineering principles, including RCA, FMEA, Weibull Analysis, and risk-based decision-making.
• SAP Equipment Maintenance experience, including maintenance transactions, equipment records, and planning functions.
• Spare parts identification, optimization, and inventory management experience.
• Experience with turnaround planning, outage management, and asset integrity programs.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification is highly recommended.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support Root Cause Analysis investigations using cause-and-effect methodologies to identify and eliminate recurring equipment failures.
• Provide technical expertise to operations and maintenance personnel on troubleshooting, repair methods, maintenance practices, and equipment performance improvement.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve maintenance and reliability strategies to optimize safety, availability, reliability, and total cost of ownership.
• Create, update, and maintain repair procedures, work instructions, maintenance standards, and job plans.
• Define and document critical repair details, including tolerances, clearances, materials of construction, welding requirements, inspection criteria, and quality standards.
• Use reliability engineering tools and methodologies, including Weibull Analysis, FMEA, RCA, and reliability-centered maintenance techniques, to improve asset performance and capability.
• Monitor, analyze, and report asset performance metrics, including availability, utilization, OEE, production losses, and other reliability indicators.
• Develop asset improvement plans, including outage strategies, turnaround planning, rebuild frequencies, inline spares, critical spare strategies, and long-term reliability initiatives.
• Establish, review, and optimize preventive, predictive, and planned maintenance programs.
• Provide technical support during major maintenance outages, turnarounds, equipment rebuilds, and capital improvement projects.
• Collaborate with vendors, contractors, and engineering resources on failure analyses, technical recommendations, and replacement or upgrade options.
• Support vessel inspections, repair plans, alterations, and other equipment integrity activities in accordance with applicable standards and site requirements.
• Evaluate corrective actions for measurable reliability and availability benefits and leverage successful solutions across the site where appropriate.
• Review and maintain Bills of Material (BOMs), equipment records, and spare parts inventories.
• Apply reliability and lifecycle-cost principles to spare parts selection, inventory optimization, purchasing requirements, and equipment replacement decisions.
• Ensure equipment-specific training materials, maintenance procedures, and technical documentation are developed, maintained, and readily available.
• Serve as a technical resource for Maintenance Planners, Maintenance Technicians, Operations personnel, and Area Business Teams.
• Participate in plant health assessments and implement reliability improvement actions.
• Support maintenance budgeting, capital planning, and reliability improvement initiatives aligned with business objectives.
• Provide maintenance and reliability input to CorePD, capital projects, and new equipment installations so reliability is designed into systems from inception.
• Participate in site and corporate reliability networks and share best practices across the organization.
• Support Process Safety Management and Asset Integrity requirements and ensure appropriate procedures and controls are available and used for critical equipment.
• Promote Continuous Improvement methodologies, support CI initiatives, facilitate improvement efforts, and encourage development of CI capabilities throughout the organization.
• Promote CI in problem-solving, project management, data-driven decision-making, team leadership, coaching, and development; recognize team members’ application of CI tools and emphasize CI training for career development.

Benefits

• Numerous development opportunities to build skills.
• Health benefits for the employee and family beginning on the first day of employment.
• Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays.
• Parental leave of at least 16 weeks for mothers and fathers.
• Competitive retirement savings plan.
• Tuition reimbursement program.

What This Job Offers

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