Reliability Engineering Lead
- Location
- Kansas City, KS, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Position Summary The Reliability Engineering Lead is responsible for improving asset reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and operational performance through data analysis, reliability engineering methodologies, maintenance strategy optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives. This role partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Planning, Scheduling, Engineering, and Plant Leadership to reduce equipment failures, improve uptime, optimize maintenance costs, and support achievement of safety, quality, production, and financial objectives.
The Reliability Engineering Lead serves as the technical expert for asset reliability and drives sustainable improvements through Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Preventive Maintenance (PM) optimization, predictive maintenance technologies, failure elimination, and reliability work process implementation.
Reports to: Maintenance & Reliability Leader Location & Travel: Role sits in the Kansas City Facility – ability to travel up to 40%.
Key Responsibilities:
Reliability Improvement
- Develop and execute reliability improvement plans for critical assets.
- Identify and eliminate chronic equipment failures.
- Analyze reliability data to improve Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).
- Recommend corrective actions to improve asset performance and lifecycle costs.
- Lead equipment criticality assessments and risk-based maintenance initiatives.
- Establish reliability standards and best practices across the plant.
- Develop and monitor reliability KPIs including, Asset Reliability (MTBF, MTTR etc.), Maintenance Effectiveness (PM Compliance, Planned & Reactive Maintenance etc.), Cost Metrics (Inventory Optimization, Emergency work cost etc.)
Failure Analysis & Problem Solving
- Facilitate Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations.
- Lead problem-solving using structured methodologies (RCA,5-Why, Fishbone Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Weibull Analysis)
- Ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and verified for effectiveness.
- Track recurring failures and develop elimination strategies.
Preventive & Predictive Maintenance
- Evaluate and optimize PM programs based on failure history and asset criticality.
- Drive conversion of time-based maintenance to condition-based maintenance where appropriate.
- Support usage of Predictive Maintenance technologies including:
- Vibration Analysis
- Infrared Thermography
- Ultrasound Monitoring
- Oil Analysis
- Motor Circuit Analysis
- Monitor PM compliance and PM effectiveness metrics.
SAP / CMMS Management
- Partner with Maintenance Planners to improve asset master data quality.
- Support development and optimization of:
- Maintenance Plans
- Task Lists
- Equipment Records
- Functional Locations
- Failure Coding
- Bill of Materials
- Analyze maintenance work order history and cost trends.
- Utilize SAP PM reporting and KPIs to identify improvement opportunities.
Reliability Work Process Leadership
- Support implementation and sustainment of Reliability Work Processes (RWP).
- Ensure work management processes are followed consistently.
- Coach planners, supervisors, and operations personnel on reliability best practices.
- Conduct audits and assessments of maintenance process compliance.
- Drive PM Pillar and TPM initiatives.
Asset Strategy Development
- Develop maintenance strategies using:
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Risk-Based Maintenan
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Posted 14 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job