[Hiring] Reliability Expert @Solenis

Role Description

The Reliability Expert will support manufacturing operations across the Americas by driving equipment reliability, maintenance excellence, and asset performance improvement across multiple sites. This role will work closely with maintenance, operations, engineering, and plant leadership to identify reliability losses, reduce downtime, improve preventive and predictive maintenance practices, and build sustainable reliability systems.

• Lead regional reliability improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, equipment failures, maintenance cost, and production losses.
• Analyze equipment performance, failure history, maintenance data, and production losses to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and improve preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, lubrication, inspection, and condition monitoring programs.
• Facilitate root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, bad actor reviews, and corrective action plans for critical equipment issues.
• Support maintenance planning and scheduling practices to improve work execution, backlog management, and maintenance productivity.
• Partner with operations and maintenance teams across Americas sites to improve equipment ownership, operator care, basic equipment conditions, and reliability culture.
• Track reliability KPIs such as downtime, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule compliance, maintenance cost, and asset performance trends.
• Provide remote and on-site support to Americas manufacturing sites, sharing best practices, standardizing reliability processes, and supporting cross-site capability building.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong manufacturing maintenance and reliability experience, preferably in chemical, industrial, at least 10 years of experience.
• Solid knowledge of reliability tools and methods, including RCA, FMEA, PM optimization, condition monitoring, and bad actor elimination.
• Experience with CMMS systems such as SAP PM, Maximo, or similar platforms for maintenance planning, work order management, and reliability reporting.
• Fluent in Spanish and in English.

Company Description

We are a chemical company that every day aims to solve complex challenges in water treatment, process improvement, and hygiene for customers in the consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets, through people, expertise, and technology.

• We are global leaders in the production and application of chemical specialties, focused on providing sustainable solutions for sectors with high water use.
• Our mission is to be a partner and add value by solving operational and sustainability challenges with the right people, the right expertise, and the right technology.
• We promote cleaner and safer environments and preserve natural resources.
• We reiterate that everyone is welcome, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other characteristic.
• The selected candidate should have an exemplary work ethic and high standards of integrity.