Reliability Engineer

Amentum; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 56,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Retirement benefits (401(k) matching)

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Reliability Engineer to support our team in a manufacturing facility in Portland, Oregon. The role focuses on planning and scheduling maintenance work to improve productivity, quality, and equipment availability while emphasizing safety and regulatory compliance.

You will coordinate parts, tools, and documentation, develop job plans, review work orders, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement using CMMS such as Maximo.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2 years of Facility Planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Upholds safety, health, and environmental procedures; communicates directly; and supports EHS policies to ensure compliance.
• Acts as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning.
• Develops full scope and extent of work, including cost and time, for maintenance activities.
• Prepares job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, and external services.
• Performs root cause analysis for continuous improvement.
• Maintains the CMMS and tracks work orders, backlog, and spare parts.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Root cause analysis

Safety compliance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Tools

Maximo

SAP

Job description

This contingent role is being posted in anticipation of potential new scope and future full-time openings.

Amentum is seeking a Reliability Engineer to support our team of multi-skilled technicians in a manufacturing facility.

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for the effective execution of all maintenance work controls processes. The primary role is to improve work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination (scheduling) of labor, parts and material, tools and equipment, required permits, specialized documentation and equipment access.

Responsibilities:

• Upholds safety, health, and environmental procedures; communicates directly; and supports the EHS policies to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA and Company and Site Specific rules and regulations at all times.

• Acts as the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning.

• Maximizes resources by identifying parts, materials, special tools, external services, rentals and documentation by establishing, maintaining and improving the maintenance planning and scheduling flow and process tasks.

• Receives and reviews all planned work orders from the requesting departments. Reviews and screens each work order to verify proper completion with all required information.

• Examines planned work orders and determines scope and best practices to accomplish work.

• Identifies work requiring engineering and design and reviews with proper entities.

• Escalates issues to the Reliability Manager for work that requires special tools, personnel or special approvals.

• Develops full scope and extent of work required, including cost and time required, to conduct the relevant repair, preventive, predictive, and improvement maintenance activities of the plant equipment, buildings and grounds.

• Prepares job plans for scheduling, detailing parts, materials, special tools and external services and documentation with planned costs. Job plans to include the sequencing of associated tasks.

• Performs root cause analysis for continuous improvement.

• Initiates and implements best practices with emphasis on planning/scheduling the preventive and predictive work.

• Analyzes unplanned work orders and occurrences for incorporation into corrective and preventive actions.

• Ensures that all maintenance personnel understand the work instructions using a procedures-based maintenance strategy and best practices for all maintenance tasks.

• Ensures maintenance personnel update and close each work order when completed.

• Prepares reports, collects and analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance related and operation related problems.

• Maximizes equipment reliability and availability through effective use of planned maintenance to quickly return equipment to design capacity, and develops effective and applicable procedures to ensure defect free quality maintenance work.

• Develops maintenance work schedule for affected area including PM, PDM and SWO.

• Develops and adheres to prioritization of work tasks.

• Performs post job reviews to ensure actual work performed and post repair operation is satisfactory.

• Identifies and changes scope of PM or PDM (based on activity results) and SWO.

• Maintains the CMMS while managing and tracking work orders, backlog, and spare parts and creates a machine history of plant equipment and reallocates resources as required.

• Coordinates with Site Maintenance Manager and Operations to schedule workforce and resources for workforce and cost optimization.

• Develops a system of planned job packages for recurring tasks.

• Identifies and secures and preplaces all parts and material required to complete the work by providing stores a Bill of material for the work orders and kits(palletizes) for maximum efficiency.

• Creates a critical spares list and procures or identifies sources for procurement to reduce lead times.

• Manages backlog.

• Continuously improves, changes the job estimate, planning and scheduling process by utilizing feedback from maintenance team.

• Maintains accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provides information for continuous improvement.

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of skilled crafts such as Cranes, HVAC, Mechanics, Electrics, Pneumatics, Hydraulics, Plumbing, Pipe Fitting, etc.

Position Goals and Performance Metrics:

• Schedule compliance: Jobs planned vs jobs and work completed as scheduled.

• Planning compliance: Data integrity in estimation and reporting of labor, material, and costs.

• Reduction of Service Work Orders: Planned Maintenance vs. Reactive.

• Improvement in Mean Time Between Failure.

• Timely reporting.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience. 2 years of Facility Planning experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in a CMMS, such as Maximo, SAP, or an equivalent program.

• Preventive and/or Predictive maintenance planning experience.

• Ability to coordinate parts and assign the appropriate skilled labor to ensure successful completion.

• Ability to write processes and procedures related to facility maintenance work.

• Practical experience with continuous improvement techniques such as Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma, 5S, Toyota Production Systems.

• Demonstrated understanding of an effective safety culture.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project.

• Demonstrated skills in organization and time management.

• Broad understanding of business issues, key performance metrics, organizational structure and customer value.

Additional Information:

• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment background check and substance abuse test.

• This position will require the ability to obtain a security access badge at our client’s location.

• This position may require a valid state driver’s license.

• This position will require the ability to obtain a security access badge at our client’s location.

• This position may require various shifts, weekends, and alternative work schedules.

Compensation Details:

$48.00

The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

Benefits Overview:

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Paid time off and holidays

• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)

• Educational reimbursement

• Parental leave

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Tax-saving options

• Disability and life insurance

• Pet insurance

Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.

Original Posting:

09/16/2026 - Until Filled

Amentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.

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