Reliability & Maintenance Lead - Critical Systems

Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Oak Ridge National Laboratory seeks a Reliability and Maintenance Coordinator for the SCL Systems Group within the RAD of the Neutron Sciences Directorate. The role focuses on reliability, availability, and safe operation of accelerator systems, coordinating maintenance planning, execution, and documentation.

The ideal candidate will bring BS in engineering and 5+ years in reliability/maintenance, with experience in CMMS and cross-organizational coordination.

Qualifications

• BS in engineering or related field with 5+ years in reliability or maintenance
• Experience coordinating maintenance across multiple organizations or disciplines
• Experience developing or reviewing maintenance plans, work packages, permits, hazard analyses, or similar work-control docs
• Experience analyzing equipment performance to support corrective actions or reliability improvements
• Familiarity with SNS facilities or similar accelerator environments (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Coordinate preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergent maintenance for SCL systems and support infrastructure
• Develop, review, and maintain maintenance plans, work packages, procedures, and risk analyses
• Apply reliability practices to improve availability, performance, and maintainability
• Monitor performance, trends, and work-order data to identify improvement opportunities
• Coordinate schedules with system owners, operations, engineering, planners, and facility stakeholders
• Support readiness for outages, startups, shutdowns, and other complex operations
• Lead or support root-cause analyses and corrective-action development
• Ensure activities comply with procedures, safety, and quality requirements
• Review closeout docs for completeness and future maintainability
• Develop preventive-maintenance tasks, spare-parts strategies, and equipment histories
• Prepare operational reports and maintenance metrics for management
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to resolve planning barriers
• Contribute to continuous-improvement initiatives using Lean and data analysis
• Provide technical leadership to maintenance and reliability activities
• Promote safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement
• Deliver ORNL’s mission aligned with core values and equal opportunity

Skills

Maintenance planning

Reliability improvement

Data analysis

Safety culture

Education

BS in engineering

MS in engineering (preferred)

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Oak Ridge National Laboratory seeks a Reliability and Maintenance Coordinator for the SCL Systems Group within the RAD of the Neutron Sciences Directorate. The role focuses on reliability, availability, and safe operation of accelerator systems, coordinating maintenance planning, execution, and documentation.

The ideal candidate will bring BS in engineering and 5+ years in reliability/maintenance, with experience in CMMS and cross-organizational coordination.