Reliability Engineer

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Description Overview

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting the site's Reliability Management Process by improving asset performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational effectiveness across the facility. Reporting directly to the Reliability Manager , this role provides technical leadership for reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, asset care strategies, failure elimination, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The Reliability Engineer serves as a hands on technical support on equipment reliability and maintenance optimization, partnering closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, and EHS teams to improve equipment uptime, reduce failures, optimize maintenance costs, and ensure full compliance with Perrigo Work Standards (PWS), cGMP, FDA, food safety, and regulatory requirements.

This role will lead reliability initiatives across manufacturing, packaging, utilities, warehouse, and processing assets, supporting the development of a world-class reliability culture within the facility.

• •Promote a proactive safety culture and support all site safety initiatives.
• •Ensure reliability activities comply with cGMP, FDA, food safety, environmental, and quality requirements.
• •Participate in investigations, deviations, CAPAs, equipment failure analyses, and Management of Change (MOC) activities.
• •Support asset integrity, process safety, and regulatory compliance programs.
• •Maintain inspection readiness and participate in internal and external audits.

• •Serve as the site subject matter expert for reliability engineering and asset performance improvement.
• •Support the Asset Care Strategy to improve equipment reliability, uptime, maintainability, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• •Lead equipment criticality assessments, bad actor analyses, and defect elimination initiatives.
• •Apply reliability methodologies including RCA, FMEA, RCM, and criticality assessments to identify and eliminate chronic failures.
• •Analyze equipment performance data, identify trends and failure modes, and develop engineering solutions that improve reliability, quality, capacity, safety, and cost performance.
• •Provide reliability input for capital projects, equipment installations, and process modifications.

• •Lead site Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs and condition-monitoring technologies.
• •Develop and optimize strategies utilizing vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound inspection, and oil analysis.
• •Monitor equipment health, identify risks, and translate findings into actionable maintenance plans.
• •Evaluate and implement emerging reliability technologies and digital monitoring tools.
• •Partner with Maintenance teams to improve maintenance effectiveness and asset performance.

• •Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• •Review maintenance effectiveness and optimize PM intervals based on asset performance and risk.
• •Ensure maintenance plans align with equipment criticality and failure modes.
• •Support asset hierarchy management, equipment BOMs, spare parts strategies, and maintenance standards.
• •Collaborate with planning and scheduling teams to improve work execution, backlog management, and prioritization.

• •Lead reliability-focused continuous improvement initiatives to increase uptime, reduce downtime, improve OEE, optimize maintenance costs, and extend asset life.
• •Utilize Lean, Six Sigma, and reliability principles to drive sustainable operational improvements.
• •Support capital projects through design reviews, maintainability assessments, commissioning, startup, and performance validation.
• •Collaborate with OEMs, contractors, suppliers, Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and EHS teams to improve equipment reliability and maintainability.
• •Drive adoption of predictive technologies, digital reliability tools, and Perrigo Work Standards (PWS).

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