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NANA Regional Corporation; Amarillo (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive pay

Growth opportunities

Excellent retirement options

Job summary

An Ethnically Owned Engineering Firm is seeking a Reliability Engineer in Amarillo, Texas. The role involves strategic support between various departments, optimizing asset management processes, and enhancing equipment reliability. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline with 5+ years of job experience. This position requires the ability to obtain DOE Q clearance and offers an opportunity to work in a supportive environment with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of job-related experience including 1 year of nuclear experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q clearance.
• Experience with proactive maintenance strategies.

Responsibilities

• Define reliability and maintainability of equipment.
• Provide technical support to operations and craft personnel.
• Conduct trend analysis and root cause failure analysis.

Skills

Reliability Engineering

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/physical science

Master's degree in engineering/physical science (preferred)

Job description

Responsibilities

Reliability Engineer (RE) provides a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability. The RE has a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates and maximize equipment reliability. The RE is responsible for but not limited to:

• Defines and provides implementation support for recommendations that ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Provides reliability based technical support to Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management and Craft personnel.
• Gathers, reviews, and analyzes data concerning facility or equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspect ability (RAMI) specifications.
• Review technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspect ability features of systems, equipment and facilities including, technical basis documentation, manuals and datasheets.
• Lead role in integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables.
• Development of proactive maintenance strategies for structures, systems and components.
• Equipment Failure Mode Identification and Root Cause Failure Analysis.
• Trend Analysis of structures, systems, and components.
• Defines, develops, implements, revises, and monitors Asset Management Plan(s) for structures, systems and components.
• Effective deployment of condition based, predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence.
• Completion and presentation of RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses to internal and external engineering partners. Analyses to include labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates MTBF, MTTR and life-cycle cost analysis.
• Staff Augmentation peer review support of the requested individual as needed to accomplish the increased mission needs of the Personnel Development and Peer Review NCS Engineering group given the amount of experience pertinent to Y-12 nuclear facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering/physical science discipline from an ABET accredited program.
• The applicant must meet the requirements of the DOE O 426.2 which states a Baccalaureate in Engineering/Related Science.
• 5+ years of job-related experience and 1 year of nuclear experience or a DOE approved alternative is needed for this position. DOE 426.2 experience requirements can be satisfied following employment. In the interim, newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities. (Ref. DOE O 426.2).
• Able to obtain and maintain DOE Q clearance.

Preferred Job Requirements

• BS in engineering/physical science discipline with 5+ years of Reliability Engineering experience or master’s degree in engineering/physical science discipline with 2+ years of Reliability Engineering experience.
• Ability to work independently as well as work within a team environment and promote collaboration
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Interact with organizations across the Site.
• Present information clearly and effectively through oral and written communication
• Ability to resolve complex issues, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance from the Department of Energy and would be identified as a Workplace Substance Abuse (WSAP) testing designated position. WSAP positions require participation in an ongoing random drug testing program in addition to the pre-employment drug screen.
• Pre-employment Drug Screen - external applicants selected for this position are required to successfully complete a post- offer, pre-employment drug test.
• Medical Exam(s) - Job related pre-placement medical examinations may be required for this position.

Job ID

2026-21144

Work Type

On-Site

Company Description

Work Where it Matters

Akima Infrastructure Services (AIS), an Akima company, is not just another staffing contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

At AIS, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.

For our shareholders, AIS provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.

For our government customers, AIS supports vital missions with the most in-demand and specialized skill sets in the world.

As an AIS employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability, or have known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us at [e-mail] or 571-353-7053 (information about job applications status is not available at this contact information).