Reliability Engineer

As a Reliability Engineer at Eastman, you'll support efforts in our manufacturing plants to improve process and equipment reliability. You will be assigned to a specific area of the plant and work with Maintenance, Engineering and Operations to identify, prioritize, and execute improvement opportunities and to achieve reliability, failure elimination, and cost reduction goals.

Responsibilities:

* Partner closely with area operations to improve equipment availability and process reliability reducing unplanned production losses
* Lead projects that provide engineered solutions to complex problems that increase equipment and process reliability
* Partner with area maintenance to target reliability and maintainability issues, reduce cost, and improve productivity
* Provide support for plant outages and shutdowns as requested
* Understand and utilize Lean Six Sigma tools for problem solving and risk elimination
* Support initiatives in assigned area
* Identify and prioritize opportunities for reliability improvements by mining information from SAP, reliability systems, and production logs
* Lead and manage Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations
* Manage FMEA analyses on critical production assets
* Provide reliability input to capital projects as requested
* Provide technical leadership at all levels of the plant organization with special emphasis on interfacing with maintenance crews
* Guide problem solving teams to identify, design and implement improvements
* Work safely and promote the Eastman safety vision

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Mechanical engineering is highly preferred.
* Previous reliability engineering experience, including experience in a chemical, petrochemical or related environment is required. 5+ years experience preferred.
* Strong basic engineering and reliability engineering skills, with the desire to learn advanced reliability engineering principles
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies
* Experience managing equipment preventive and predictive maintenance plan with asset management software (SAP preferred)
* Knowledge of common process equipment (pumps, fans, agitators, motors, valves, instrumentation etc.)

Eastman will not accept applicants for this offered position who require visa sponsorship, including those whose status is F-1 visa OPT who subsequently would require ongoing visa sponsorship.