Reliability Engineer

Infinity Work Solutions; Kinston (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinity Work Solutions in Kinston, NC seeks a Maintenance Reliability Engineer focused on asset reliability and proactive maintenance strategies. You will drive reliability improvements, safety, and cross-functional collaboration to maximize asset availability and reduce costs.

The role emphasizes TPM, RCM, root-cause analysis, and development of spare parts and asset care strategies within a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing proactive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Strong ability to develop spare parts and asset care strategies.
• Proven root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and safety advocacy within manufacturing settings.

Responsibilities

• Define maintenance strategy for new technologies at the Kinston Plant.
• Develop and deploy maintenance plans to improve asset reliability and safety.
• Lead TPM/RCM initiatives and drive cost-effective reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to maximize asset availability.
• Provide technical maintenance support on large refurbishment and asset changes.

Job description

We are seeking a safety-focused Maintenance Reliability Engineer with expertise in asset reliability, maintenance strategy development, and continuous improvement within a manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing proactive and predictive maintenance programs, developing spare parts and asset care strategies, analyzing performance metrics, and driving reliability improvements through TPM, RCM, and root cause analysis. This individual will be a strong communicator who champions safety, ensures compliance, supports capital and improvement projects, and collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to maximize asset availability, reliability, and cost-effective performance.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define the maintenance strategy for the new technologies within the Kinston Plant
• Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Kinston Plant
• Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
• Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
• Manage effective asset performance measurement.
• Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
• Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
• Develop and deploy themaintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.

Main Activities

• Ensure ‘best in class’ safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.
• Maintaina ‘safety first’ culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a ‘champion for safety’.
• Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies.
• Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
• Maintaincompliance with procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (FU.IN.07), Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape.
• Support in developing, deploying and maintaining the Maintenance Plan for all assets in scope.
• LeadTotal Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget.
• Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
• Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
• Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
• Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
• Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability.
• Project manage simple, low cost refurbishment projects.
• Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
• Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
• Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices.
• Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability.
• Maintain the standard ofAsset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
• Working with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services.
• Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans. Lead technical problem solving and lessons learned activity. Embed and maintain a culture of structured root cause analysis to minimize the re-occurrence of breakdowns.
• Deploy maintenance tools and methodologies to maximize reliability (e.g. Condition Based Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Autonomous Maintenance).
• Be the champion for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Contribute actively to the overall management of the Industrial Maintenance business.