Reliability Engineer III
GAF · Ennis, TX
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $88k–$121k
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Certification
- Black Belt preferred
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 25 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior reliability role at GAF (industrial) in Ennis, TX. (Note: Prior certifications obtained through GAF or another employer may fully satisfy this expectation).
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required · Black Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- TPM, OEE, Root cause, FMEA
- Base pay
- $88k–$121k
- Day to day
- about 10% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $124k–$140k. This one lists $88k–$121k.
Median of the low and high ends of 10 live postings that list pay, out of 48 reliability engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Texas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 47 other live reliability postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- About 21% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 4+)
Typical $124k–$140k, from 9 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 46%
- SAP 29%
- ✓ Team leadership 27%
- ✓ FMEA 25%
- Automation 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Reliability team at GAF
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- The posting says about 10% travel. Between which sites?
- The posting mentions a Black Belt. Does the company sponsor certification?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: GAF in Ennis
2 other open roles at this site.
- Continuous Improvement Engineer III · Lean / CI · Senior
- Electrical Technician II · Reliability · Technician
Full description from GAFAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job Summary
The Reliability Engineer III is an expert-level position, driving significant improvements in machine operating time, uptime, and overall equipment reliability. This position holds overall strategic leadership responsibility for the site's Reliability program, leading its development and continuous improvement across all operations functions. As a strategic leader and peer to Maintenance and Production Managers, the Reliability Engineer III applies advanced engineering expertise to prevent failures, optimize maintenance activities, and manage complex projects with site-wide impact. This dynamic role also oversees MRO storeroom functions, integrates reliability elements into storeroom processes, and champions Operator Care initiatives (TPM), influencing internal and external stakeholders through strong communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership to achieve strategic change.
Essential Duties
- ◆Promotes a safe and clean work environment where safety is the highest priority and embedded in our culture.
- ◆Guide technicians in gathering predictive data, ensuring proper techniques through training and established procedures.
- ◆Initiate work orders for equipment showing signs of failure and follow up on their completion.
- ◆Optimize existing predictive routes and expand programs as needed.
- ◆Develop engineering solutions to address problems identified during root cause analyses.
- ◆Prepare capital requests for various projects.
- ◆Collaborate with planners and schedulers to effectively delegate internal labor resources.
- ◆Prepare project scopes and review them with contractors for external labor needs.
- ◆Ensure timely project completion while adhering to budget constraints.
- ◆Review preventive maintenance (PM) schedules and plans to ensure appropriate frequency and scope.
- ◆Conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) on machinery.
- ◆Perform comprehensive asset analyses, including utilization, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), remaining useful life, and other relevant parameters to assess condition, reliability, and costs.
- ◆Establish preventive maintenance
requirements
and service contracts, identify critical spares, and evaluate new equipment and techniques to ensure equipment reliability.
- ✓Monitor and confirm equipment reliability through regular audits and performance tracking using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- ✓Utilize Pareto analysis to identify key equipment failures and maintenance spending areas of greatest concern.
- ✓Track maintenance department KPIs to assess departmental effectiveness.
- ✓Monitor equipment failures, analyze costs using Pareto principles, and identify the root causes of equipment failures.
- ✓Formulate teams to address equipment failures and develop action items to prevent recurrence.
- ✓Track action items and drive to completion to reduce maintenance costs. Prioritize and promote a safe and clean work environment, embedding safety as the highest priority in our culture.
- ✓Perform other job duties as assigned
Required
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
- ✓5+ years demonstrated industrial manufacturing experience, preferably in a continuous manufacturing process.
- ✓5+ years of plant maintenance experience
- ✓5+years of experience in maintenance and reliability improvement
- ✓Willingness & aptitude to pursue Level 1 certifications in Thermography, Vibration Analysis, and Machinery Lubrication within your first two years, as business priorities allow. (Note: Prior certifications obtained through GAF or another employer may fully satisfy this expectation).
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At GAF, we cover more than just buildings. We cover each other. Under this roof, you will have the tools and resources you need to grow and develop in your career. You will experience our incredible culture and will be empowered to support your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we define the future while leading the present through our deep well of experience and our responsibility to the future to drive improvements and innovation in our products. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.
General Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- •Excellent interpersonal skills
- •Strong attention to detail with a commitment to quality and accuracy
- •Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
- •Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- •Able to influence and lead others over whom he/she has no direct authority.
- •Willing to drive for change in the interest of continuous improvement.
- •Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- •Able to work under limited supervision make independent judgement and decisions as necessary.
- •Excellent organization skills.
Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- •Advanced knowledge of CMMS/Inventory Management software.
- •Intermediate proficiency in G suite
- •Expertise in applying advanced probability and statistical modeling, and prediction reliability tools to forecast equipment life, assess system reliability, and make data-driven decisions.
- •Expertise in complex equipment types and their failure mechanisms across diverse industrial systems, including but not limited to advanced rotating machinery, complex hydraulic and pneumatic systems, advanced bearing analysis, and sophisticated lubrication management programs.
- •Advanced proficiency using root cause analysis to troubleshoot and solve problems
- •Extensive experience and strategic application of all major Predictive Maintenance (PdM) tools and techniques, including advanced interpretation and program management for Vibration Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Ultrasonic Testing, Oil Analysis, Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA), and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). You'll lead the selection, implementation, and optimization of these technologies.
- •Deep expertise in Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis processes, including leading comprehensive asset crit
