Responsible and accountable for the Reliability and Maintainability initiatives for new and modified installations. Assist efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems. Supports the definition, design, development, monitoring and refining of an asset maintenance plan that includes:

Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems

Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations. Assists in the development of engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues. Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA). Perform failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS).

Works with Production and Engineering to perform analyses of assets including:

Asset utilization
Overall equipment effectiveness
Remaining useful life
Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets

Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.

Bachelor Degree in Engineering
Five (5) years’ experience in maintenance related field with at least three (3) years’ experience in the equipment reliability function
Experience with Predictive Technologies, Root Cause Failure Analysis and Failure Mode & Effect Analysis.
Must have experience in data analysis techniques including: Statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, Fault tree and weibull analysis.
Experience using Six Sigma methodology
Advanced computer and excellent technical skills
Demonstrated outstanding technical expertise in mechanical and electrical failures.
Demonstrated leadership and team oriented skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Spanish.

Positions available for Puerto Rico.

Validation and Engineering Group, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Specialist