Reliability Engineer

Unilever

Jonesboro, AR

Shift: Full time

JOB PURPOSE

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for improving equipment reliability, eliminating chronic losses, and stabilizing production assets through engineering-led maintenance strategies. This role sits within the Maintenance Department serves as the technical owner of loss elimination, defining asset reliability strategies and standards to transition the plant from reactive to preventive and predictive maintenance. Working closely with Maintenance and Operations, this position ensures asset strategies and improvements permanently eliminate failure modes impacting Safety, Quality, Production, and Cost. The role focuses on defining and driving reliability strategy and is not responsible for day-to-day maintenance execution. You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters – for people and the planet. Because here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Reliability Loss Elimination Identify and prioritize chronic losses and bad actor assets using downtime, cost, and defect data Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent solutions to eliminate repeat failures Develop and maintain reliability strategies for critical equipment Use data to validate improvements and track results Drive prioritization of reliability efforts based on business impact (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery) Ensure solutions are sustained through standards, PMs, and procedures Maintenance Strategy Standards Define and optimize maintenance strategies (PM, PdM, run-to-failure) based on failure modes and asset criticality Improve PM effectiveness through failure-mode-driven tasks Drive continuous improvement of maintenance plans using CMMS data and feedback Eliminate non-value-added PMs and improve maintenance efficiency Ensure maintenance strategies prevent repeat failures Develop SMPs and standards Plant Floor Engagement Capability Building Work directly on the plant floor to validate failures and root causes Coach maintenance and operations teams in RCA and reliability thinking Partner with Operations to reduce misuse and avoidable losses Support implementation of practical, sustainable improvements Support capital projects related to fixed equipment, process improvement, utilities, and facilities Continuous Improvement Governance Apply structured improvement methodologies (TPM/WCM, focused improvement) Embed reliability improvements into daily operations Collaborate across Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and Operations Maintain reliability data to support decision-making Digital Predictive Capability Apply condition monitoring techniques (vibration, thermography, oil analysis) Support development of predictive maintenance strategies Use data and analytics to improve asset performance Key Deliverables Reduce downtime and improve asset reliability (MTBF / MTTR / BD%, PMs ) Eliminate chronic failures and bad actors Improve effectiveness of maintenance strategies Deliver sustained improvements through data Increase capability of maintenance and operations teams