Valway - Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

The Maintenance & Reliability Engineer provides technical leadership for the lifecycle reliability of production equipment, electrical and instrumentation systems, automation, utilities, and supporting plant assets in a Process Safety Management (PSM)-regulated manufacturing environment. The position improves equipment uptime and manufacturing performance by developing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, leading root cause failure analysis, strengthening calibration and asset-management processes, and supporting safe execution of maintenance, outage, and capital work.

This role combines hands-on troubleshooting, reliability engineering, field execution, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement. The Maintenance & Reliability Engineer serves as a technical resource to Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, Quality, contractors, and equipment suppliers and may provide day-to-day direction, coaching, or supervision to technicians and other maintenance resources as assigned.

JOB

• •Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs for mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utility assets.
• •Analyze equipment history, failure modes, work-order data, condition-monitoring results, and production losses to identify reliability risks and improvement priorities.
• •Lead or participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for significant equipment failures, recurring defects, process interruptions, and reliability events; establish and track corrective actions.
• •Develop equipment strategies, performance expectations, standards, procedures, inspection frequencies, and acceptance criteria based on risk, operating context, and manufacturer recommendations.
• •Partner with planners, schedulers, technicians, Operations, and contractors to improve job plans, maintenance execution, backlog quality, spare-parts readiness, and overall equipment effectiveness.
• •Support planning and execution of production-line outages, sitewide outages, turnarounds, and other high-risk maintenance activities.
• •Identify bad actors and obsolete or high-risk equipment; recommend repair, redesign, replacement, or capital investment solutions.

• •Provide technical support for complex electrical, instrumentation, motor, variable frequency drive (VFD), control-valve, actuator, PLC, HMI, and plant automation issues.
• •Support diagnosis, repair, specification, installation, commissioning, and performance monitoring of plant control and automation systems.
• •Develop, maintain, and improve the plant calibration program for field instruments and critical process-control devices.
• •Review and support electrical and control-system installations, construction activities, and project commissioning as assigned.

• •Provide technical expertise for chemical manufacturing processes, production equipment, industrial utilities, and plant systems.
• •Support troubleshooting of process, equipment, and utility performance issues to minimize downtime and restore safe, stable operation.
• •Evaluate and recommend process or equipment improvements that enhance safety, quality, reliability, productivity, energy performance, and cost.
• •Participate in process design reviews, technical risk assessments, equipment selection, and review of engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, and vendor documentation.
• •Ensure designs and equipment applications comply with applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements, and company engineering practices.
• •Support capital projects from scope development through installation, startup, documentation, and transition to maintenance ownership.

• •Support asset hierarchy, work-order quality, job plans, preventive maintenance, equipment history, planning, scheduling, and work execution.
• •Develop, track, analyze, and communicate reliability and maintenance key performance indicators, including equipment availability, downtime, recurring failures, preventive-maintenance compliance, corrective-action closure, and other site measures.
• •Audit maintenance and reliability processes, document findings, identify gaps, and establish corrective action plans.
• •Improve technical data quality, asset records, drawings, spare-parts information, and maintenance documentation.

• •Champion a strong safety culture and comply with all plant safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• •Support contractor safety management and safe execution of maintenance, outage, construction, and project work.
• •Participate in safety audits, observations, hazard identification, incident investigations, safety projects, and required annual training.
• •Understand and support the Responsible Care Management System (RC-14001), i