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Reliability Engineer

Kinston, North Carolina, United States

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

We are seeking a safety-focused Maintenance Reliability Engineer with expertise in asset reliability, maintenance strategy development, and continuous improvement within a manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing proactive and predictive maintenance programs, developing spare parts and asset care strategies, analyzing performance metrics, and driving reliability improvements through TPM, RCM, and root cause analysis. This individual will be a strong communicator who champions safety, ensures compliance, supports capital and improvement projects, and collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to maximize asset availability, reliability, and cost-effective performance.

Primary Responsibilities: 

  • Define the maintenance strategy for the new technologies within the Kinston Plant 
  • Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Kinston Plant 
  • Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
  • Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
  • Manage effective asset performance measurement.
  • Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
  • Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
  • Develop and deploy the  maintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.

Main Activities

  • Ensure ‘best in class’ safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.  
  • Maintain  a ‘safety first’ culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a ‘champion for safety’.
  • Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies. 
  • Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
  • Maintain  compliance with procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (FU.IN.07), Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape. 
  • Support in developing, deploying and maintaining the Maintenance Plan for all assets in scope. 
  • Lead  Total Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget. 
  • Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
  • Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
  • Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
  • Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
  • Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability. 
  • Project manage simple, low cost refurbishment projects.
  • Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
  • Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
  • Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices. 
  • Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability. 
  • Maintain the standard of  Asset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
  • Working with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services. 
  • Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans. Lead technical problem solving and lessons learned activity. Embed and maintain a culture of structured root cause analysis to minimize the re-occurrence of breakdowns. 
  • Deploy maintenance tools and methodologies to maximize reliability (e.g. Condition Based Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Autonomous Maintenance). 
  • Be the champion for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Contribute actively to the overall management of the Industrial Maintenance business.

 

Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

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