[Hiring] Reliability Engineer @RTX

Role Description

The Reliability Engineer within the Maintenance Center of Excellence (MCoE) will work with manufacturing sites, maintenance teams, engineering organizations, equipment suppliers, and other technical experts to improve equipment reliability and maintenance effectiveness.

• Apply reliability engineering principles and maintenance best practices to identify equipment performance opportunities, reduce recurring failures, and develop effective preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Support the development and improvement of equipment maintenance and reliability strategies across manufacturing sites.
• Analyze equipment performance and maintenance data to identify bad actors, recurring failures, and reliability improvement opportunities.
• Use metrics such as maintenance downtime, MTBF, MTTR, repeat failures, PM performance, and maintenance history to prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Perform and facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) for significant and recurring equipment failures.
• Apply FMEA, equipment criticality, and reliability-centered maintenance principles to evaluate equipment risks and maintenance requirements.
• Review existing preventive maintenance programs and identify opportunities to improve task content, frequencies, and effectiveness.
• Work with site maintenance organizations to improve the connection between equipment failure modes and maintenance tasks.
• Provide support for maintenance planning, scheduling, backlog management, work-order quality, job plans, and failure coding.
• Use SAP or other CMMS/EAM systems to evaluate equipment history, maintenance activities, and failure information.
• Support predictive maintenance and asset-health initiatives, including vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, oil analysis, and other condition-monitoring technologies.
• Partner with site OEE and Industrial Engineering teams to understand equipment-related availability losses.
• Support Central Equipment/Capital Projects by providing maintenance and reliability input for new and modified equipment.
• Work directly with OEM technical and service organizations to support troubleshooting, equipment repair, failure analysis, and reliability improvement.
• Help evaluate the technical performance of OEM and third-party maintenance providers.
• Document lessons learned from equipment failures and reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• 5 or more years of experience in manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, industrial maintenance, equipment reliability, or a related technical field OR a Master's degree in engineering and 3 or more years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience working with industrial/manufacturing equipment and troubleshooting equipment problems.
• Experience participating in or facilitating root cause analysis and structured problem solving.
• Experience analyzing equipment and maintenance data and identifying trends and recurring problems.
• Working knowledge of equipment reliability principles and maintenance work-management fundamentals.
• Experience working with a CMMS/EAM system.

Requirements

• Experience with SAP PM/EAM.
• Familiarity with FMEA, RCM, asset criticality, or PM optimization.
• Experience analyzing MTBF, MTTR, equipment downtime, or other reliability metrics.
• Exposure to predictive or condition-based maintenance technologies such as vibration analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasound, or oil analysis.
• Experience with automated or complex manufacturing equipment, including machining systems, robotics, controls, vacuum equipment, furnaces, material-handling systems, or similar production assets.
• Experience working with OEMs or third-party equipment-service providers.
• Exposure to maintenance planning and scheduling or maintenance work-management improvement.
• Understanding of OEE and equipment availability.
• Experience participating in equipment installation, commissioning, or capital-equipment projects.
• Familiarity with equipment maintainability, spare-parts requirements, or maintenance-readiness reviews.
• Reliability or maintenance training/certification, or interest in pursuing certifications such as CMRP or predictive-maintenance certifications.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee Scholar Program.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.