Reliability Engineer - Mobile Equipment Maintenance

Careermine; Lovelock (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation available

Competitive annual incentive (AIP)

Full benefits on day 1 (medical,Vision

401k with 6% match

Job summary

Coeur Mining, a U.S.-based precious metals producer, seeks a Reliability Engineer for the Rochester Mine in Lovelock, Nevada. You will enhance safety, reliability, and lifecycle costs of mobile equipment and infra, leading maintenance strategies, root-cause analysis, and condition-monitoring programs.

The role reports to the Mobile Maintenance Superintendent and requires independent handling of moderately complex tasks, collaboration with planners, supervisors, technicians, and junior engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in mine equipment maintenance or a comparable heavy industrial environment.
• Experience with Reliability tools (UT, Thermography, CBM, Oil analysis interpretation, RCA, KPI metrics analysis).
• Ability to analyze work order history, downtime, maintenance costs, component life, and equipment performance data.
• Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, engineering drawings, hydraulic schematics, electrical diagrams, and equipment specifications.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Software skills in MS Office products and CMMS systems (Oracle), Edge, Dingo Trakka, Oil Commander, VIMS/VHMS.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and evaluate the health and performance of mobile mining equipment and selected fixed assets.
• Identify chronic failures, repeat defects, excessive component consumption, and high-cost equipment using maintenance, operating, and condition-monitoring data.
• Track and analyze equipment availability, utilization, mean time between failures, mean time to repair, maintenance cost, component life, and unscheduled downtime.
• Develop equipment reliability improvement plans based on operational risk, failure history, production impact, and lifecycle cost.
• Maintain bad-actor equipment lists and facilitate recurring reviews with Maintenance and Operations.
• Evaluate whether reliability improvements are producing sustained results after implementation.
• Lead root cause analyses for significant equipment failures, repeat failures, safety-related defects, and production-loss events.
• Gather physical evidence, operating data, fluid samples, inspection findings, work history, photographs, and employee observations during investigations.
• Develop corrective actions that address physical, human, procedural, design, and organizational causes.
• Assign action owners, establish due dates, monitor completion, and verify the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Communicate investigation findings in clear technical reports and presentations.
• Develop and optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Review preventive maintenance tasks for effectiveness, duplication, excessive frequency, missing tasks, and opportunities for condition-based maintenance.
• Support asset criticality assessments and risk-based maintenance prioritization.
• Facilitate maintenance strategy reviews using reliability-centered maintenance and failure-mode-based principles.
• Ensure maintenance tasks clearly define the failure mode being managed, the required action, and the expected standard.
• Recommend changes to maintenance intervals based on condition data, failure history, operating environment, and OEM guidance.
• Support job‑plan development by identifying technical requirements, tolerances, inspection points, and quality‑control steps.
• Support or manage condition‑monitoring technologies applicable to mine equipment, including:[...]
• Improve sampling locations, sampling practices, alarm limits, inspection routes, and data quality.
• Work with maintenance personnel to confirm defects in the field and determine the appropriate response.
• Evaluate new condition‑monitoring technologies and develop business cases for implementation.
• Monitor alert‑to‑work‑order conversion, defect closure, and equipment condition after repairs.
• Establish or improve contamination‑control targets for hydraulic, powertrain, fuel, and lubrication systems.
• Investigate abnormal wear metals, viscosity changes, coolant contamination, fuel dilution, water ingress, oxidation, and particle‑count trends.
• Recommend improvements such as offline filtration, high‑efficiency breathers, desiccant breathers, improved sampling ports, sealed transfer systems, and filtration upgrades.
• Develop standards for fluid cleanliness during component installation and system commissioning.
• Work with Maintenance, Warehouse, and suppliers to prevent lubricant misapplication and cross‑contamination.
• Actively coach and train condition monitoring and lubrication technicians.
• Ensure efficient and reliable operations of mine equipment while protecting and prolonging the economic life of all assets.
• Maintain and validate downtime reporting database and KPI’s.
• Drive the predictive and preventative maintenance process, including data translation and analysis (including report generation).
• Identify, evaluate, and scope reliability improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with management teams and key partners in the development of budgets as well as production and shutdown plans.
• Conduct reliability analysis and improvements (analyzing trends, critical metrics – MTTR, MTBF, FFPM, data analysis, bad actor failure analysis and optimization).
• Lead the use of improvement processes to improve the performance of assets.
• Actively coach and train condition monitoring and lubrication technicians.
• Ensure efficient and reliable operations of mine equipment while protecting and prolonging the economic life of all assets.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Planning & organizing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

Excel

Cat SIS

Oil analysis interpretation

CMMS (Oracle)

Edge

Dingo Trakka

Oil Commander

VIMS/VHMS

Job description

Coeur Mining, a U.S.-based precious metals producer, seeks a Reliability Engineer for the Rochester Mine in Lovelock, Nevada. You will enhance safety, reliability, and lifecycle costs of mobile equipment and infra, leading maintenance strategies, root-cause analysis, and condition-monitoring programs.

The role reports to the Mobile Maintenance Superintendent and requires independent handling of moderately complex tasks, collaboration with planners, supervisors, technicians, and junior engineers