Senior Predictive Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

General Atomics; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to design and lead a comprehensive Predictive Maintenance program for critical facilities assets, including production equipment, electrical, mechanical, HVAC, utilities, and infrastructure. The role emphasizes asset criticality, risk-based methodologies, and performance monitoring.

You will define PdM technologies, monitor strategies, alarm thresholds, and response workflows; analyze CMMS data for trends and failures; develop reliability

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in engineering or related field; 9+ years with Bachelors, 7+ with Masters, or 4+ with PhD.
• Strong technical fundamentals and project leadership.
• Experience applying Predictive Maintenance or Reliability-Centered Maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive Predictive Maintenance (PdM) program for critical facilities assets.
• Identify critical assets using risk-based methods (criticality ranking, FMEA, reliability assessments).
• Define PdM technologies, monitoring strategies, thresholds and response workflows.
• Analyze CMMS data to identify trends, failure modes, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and track reliability KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, PM/PdM compliance).
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for recurring failures and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Construction to integrate reliability into new work.
• Support capital planning via reliability-driven upgrades and lifecycle optimization.
• Establish PdM standards, procedures, and training materials.
• Prepare reports and ROI presentations for leadership.

Skills

PdM program

CMMS data

RCA leadership

Vibration analysis

Asset management

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

IoT sensors

Job description

General Atomics is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to design and lead a comprehensive Predictive Maintenance program for critical facilities assets, including production equipment, electrical, mechanical, HVAC, utilities, and infrastructure. The role emphasizes asset criticality, risk-based methodologies, and performance monitoring.

You will define PdM technologies, monitor strategies, alarm thresholds, and response workflows; analyze CMMS data for trends and failures; develop reliability