Reliability Engineer

Owens Corning · Fort Smith, AR

Level: Engineer
Team: Reliability
Travel: 15%
Degree: Preferred
Experience asked: 3+ years
Industry: Industrial
Posted: Recently

The role in 30 seconds

An engineer-level reliability role at Owens Corning (industrial) in Fort Smith, AR. Assist/Learn and eventually facilitate Root Cause analysis/Root Cause Failure Analysis.

They ask for: 3+ years · degree preferred
Tools it names: TPM, Root cause, FMEA, SAP
Day to day: about 15% travel

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Reliability Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $105k–$145k.

Median of the low and high ends of 198 live postings that list pay, out of 559 reliability engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 558 other live reliability postings in the US.

Base pay: Not listed in this posting
Experience asked: Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)

Skills these teams ask for most

✓ Root cause 54%
✓ Team leadership 27%
✓ FMEA 25%
Automation 23%

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Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 3+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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This plant: Owens Corning in Fort Smith

3 other open roles at this site · 1 person we found in reliability roles at Owens Corning.

Maintenance Supervisor · Reliability · Supervisor
Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
Multi-Craft Maintenance Mechanic-Nights! · Reliability · Technician

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Responsibilities

Live the safety stand, adhere to the safety

responsibilities

◆Lead execution of monthly team safety

requirements

✓Educate team members on safe operations
✓Effectively communicate Owens Corning’s stand on safety throughout the Operations Department
✓Perform reporting and investigation of all safety incidents, driving to root cause and permanent resolution
✓Safety metrics – PSI-Positive Safety Interactions; JHA/PJHA-Pre-task safety planning, Risk profile reduction, safety training

Drives the elimination of unplanned equipment downtime

✓Gathers and examines basic reliability data from data bases, field tests, CMMS systems and other data sources, and correlates the data using well defined engineering techniques and procedures.
✓Assist/Learn and eventually facilitate Root Cause analysis/Root Cause Failure Analysis
✓Determine “Bad Actors” and Prioritize findings to focus on the largest or most critical opportunities.
✓Confer with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Maintenance Leaders, and other Reliability Engineers to develop a plan in partnership with Operations and Maintenance, and effectively and economically improve equipment and process designs.

Improves asset total life cycle cost across the enterprise.

✓Partners with Capital Delivery to ensure the EM focus on reliability and maintainability of new and modified equipment installations.
✓Confer with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Maintenance leaders, and other Reliability Engineers to develop a plan in partnership with Operations and Maintenance, to effectively and economically improve equipment and process designs.
✓Teaching and training of PM Pillar and reliability concepts/tools/methodologies
✓Defines, develops, monitors and refines asset maintenance strategies.
✓Develop/Apply Master Equipment list, Equipment Criticality, BOMs, etc
✓Conducts FMEA analysis on all critical assets.
✓Partners with plant PM Pillar/maintenance teams to define, develop and refine the Preventative/Predictive Maintenance program
✓Application of Storeroom/MRO best practices
✓Accountable for upkeep of all predictive maintenance databases
✓Accountable for predictive maintenance reporting to stakeholders
✓Responsible for reviewing predictive maintenance reports and determining work priorities based on severity.

And experience

✓Bachelor of Science Engineering degree (Electrical, Mechanical preferred) or related field of study and 1-3 years experience in manufacturing environment. Equivalent experience in lieu of degree should be 7-10 years with Industrial Maintenance.
✓Exposure and training in Reliability practices and processes, including the following, are desirable:
✓Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
✓Equipment Criticality Ranking (ECR)
✓Failure Modes, effects and analysis (FMEA)
✓Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
✓Achieve CMRP Certification within 24 months
✓Achieve Vibration level II in 36 months
✓Achieve MLT I within 24 months
✓High working knowledge of common CMMS systems, SAP preferred
✓Solid foundation of operating in Microsoft Excel- Intermediate level
✓Tribology (lubrication analysis) condition-based monitoring
✓Travel up to 15%

Preffered experience

✓Onsite Manufacturing experience strongly preferred
✓Working experience and application of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
✓Project Management

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Purpose of the job

The Reliability Engineer, RE, utilizes engineering practices to drive out sources of repetitive failure in equipment and processes. The Reliability Engineer will identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. In addition, the Reliability Engineer is involved in the early management design and installation stages of capital projects for new assets, modification of existing assets, and conducts and develops various analytical methods for determining reliability of components, equipment, and processes. The RE must be an active member of Total Productive Maintenance’s PM Pillar.

This role acquires process and equipment data, provides analysis of the data to include preparation of charts, diagrams, drawings, calculations, and reports which define reliability problems and makes recommendations for improvements. The level of reliability required for an asset will consider the criticality ranking, the economic limitations for equipment up/down time, repair/replacement costs, availability of materials/equipment, etc. The Reliability Engineer, with clear external perspective of our customers’ demands, will develop and ensure the execution of plans to reduce or eliminate production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets, and executes or follows the execution of that plan intended to drive improved availability.

Reliability Engineer will manage salary Maintenance Planner and hourly predictive maintenance technicians including scheduling, performance reviews, training, development, and planned work.

JOB

Leading and Developing Talent

•Provides reliability based and precision maintenance training
•Provides feedback on expectations and performance for PdM team members
•In partnership with Maintenance Leader, leads and builds an effective work team to increase plant performance and drive continuous improvement.
•Defines and deploys appropriate reliability knowledge and capabilities for plant Maintenance teams members: Supervisors, Engineers and technicians
•Leads/Manages external resources on projects and programs

JOB

Knowledge, skills & abilities

•Able to engage and care for people starting with safety
•Excellent at listening, following up on commitments, and building strong teams
•Strong process, engineering, and technical abilities
•Business and financial acumen
•Ability to influence without a