Industrial Process Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionMake reliability your craft

Drive stability and efficiency across our Cleveland plant by blending hands-on troubleshooting with disciplined, data-informed improvements—all in close collaboration with the Engineering Manager and the department’s Plant Superintendent.

Your impact

• Stabilize production: Diagnose and resolve equipment and process issues, including process control systems.
• Elevate quality: Use SPC to reduce variability and improve batch performance.
• Cut waste: Contribute to cost reduction and process reliability/quality initiatives.
• Deliver improvements: Coordinate efficiency initiatives through to measurable, sustained benefits.
• Build capital capability: Participate in and develop skills via small-scale capital projects.
• Source smartly: Partner with vendors on specifications, product evaluations, and procurement.
• Mobilize resources: Align in-house maintenance and outside contractors for timely repairs and upgrades.
• Design flow: Analyze space, workflow, and equipment layout to maximize throughput and safety.

Required training cadence

• General Employee Training (annual)
• Hazardous Waste / RCRA (annual)
• DOT General Awareness (every 3 years)

Structure

• Supervision: None
• Reporting: Partners with Engineering Manager and Plant Superintendent

Qualifications

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology (ABET accredited).
• Demonstrated project management success and cross-department process improvement experience.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; results-driven and team-oriented.
• Strong technical, written, and verbal communication; solid problem-solving; emerging leadership.

Communication capabilities

• Clear, concise communicator across written and verbal channels.
• Effective presenter; comfortable addressing inquiries and complaints.
• Consistently courteous, tactful, and respectful.

Tools and competencies

• Upholds confidentiality; meets tight deadlines; independently manages workload.
• Champion of a harassment-free environment and collaborative teamwork.
• Detail-focused; advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, and office suite proficiency.
• AutoCAD and Autodesk Fusion 360 proficiency.
• Familiar with PLCs and Ladder Logic programming.
• Reads blueprints/architectural drawings; creates and interprets P&IDs.
• Understands complex plant systems (electrical, mechanical, HVAC, boilers, etc.).
• Responds efficiently to utility or system disruptions.
• Strong contractor coordination and follow-through (in person, phone, email).
• Manufacturing background preferred.
• Expertise in problem identification, data collection/analysis, fact-finding, and conclusion development.
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments; available for off-shift work as business needs dictate.

Physical requirements

• Regularly: stand, walk, sit, talk/listen
• Frequently: reach with hands/arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl
• Occasionally: lift or move up to 50 lbs
• Vision: close and distance vision; ability to focus