Reliability Engineer: Maximize Plant Uptime & Asset Life

Norsk Hydro; Georgia; On-site; USD 81,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Rx

Dental

Disability

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Hydro Extrusions in North America is seeking a reliability engineer to guide maintenance, ensure reliability of equipment, processes, utilities, and safety systems, and to develop the preventive/predictive maintenance program.

You will reduce maintenance costs, provide technical advice, and support engineers in day-to-day problems while focusing on asset life extension and safe operations. 5+ years in manufacturing and cross-functional experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in manufacturing as a reliability engineer, managing capital project life cycles.
• Experience in plant electrical projects, equipment installation, and hand-off to operations.
• Collaborative experience in cross‑functional teams.
• Preferred experience in extrusion, casting, fabrication, and mill‑grade equipment.

Responsibilities

• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, control loops, and safety/security systems.
• Defines, develops, administers, and refines the preventive/predictive maintenance program.
• Reduces and improves maintenance work wherever feasible; assuring efficient and productive operation of plant, process and equipment; while protecting and prolonging the economic life of plant assets; all at the least (optimal) cost practical.
• Provides technical advice to maintenance and proprietors.
• Serving in a staff capacity, the function relieves maintenance supervisors and planner/schedulers of those responsibilities, which are engineering in nature.
• Reliability engineering is dedicated to addressing day-to-day problems of the maintenance organization.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Plant electrical projects

Capital project management

Job description

Hydro Extrusions in North America is seeking a reliability engineer to guide maintenance, ensure reliability of equipment, processes, utilities, and safety systems, and to develop the preventive/predictive maintenance program.

You will reduce maintenance costs, provide technical advice, and support engineers in day-to-day problems while focusing on asset life extension and safe operations. 5+ years in manufacturing and cross-functional experience preferred.