Senior Reliability Engineer: Drive Asset Performance & RCA

ELMEA Consulting Group; Geel; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

ELMEA Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to join the Maintenance & Reliability team at a leading pharmaceutical site in Geel, Belgium. The role focuses on asset performance, risk reduction, and long-term reliability strategies in a GMP environment.

You will collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Quality teams to drive improvements using RCA, FMEA, RCM, and analytics tools. Fluency in Dutch and English is required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering or a scientific discipline such as Chemistry or Physics, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, Asset Management, or a related technical field.
• Experience with RCA, FMEA, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), and predictive/condition-based maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate complex equipment failure investigations, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Analyze maintenance, operational, and process data to identify reliability trends, performance gaps, and technical bottlenecks.
• Translate data-driven insights into asset improvement strategies and long-term investment proposals.
• Optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Challenge existing maintenance strategies and identify opportunities to improve equipment availability, reliability, and lifecycle performance.
• Develop and implement technical improvement initiatives across the site.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or a scientific discipline

Tools

SAP PM

Maximo

CMMS

Power BI

Tableau

Python

Job description

ELMEA Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to join the Maintenance & Reliability team at a leading pharmaceutical site in Geel, Belgium. The role focuses on asset performance, risk reduction, and long-term reliability strategies in a GMP environment.

You will collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Quality teams to drive improvements using RCA, FMEA, RCM, and analytics tools. Fluency in Dutch and English is required.