Job Description
Role : Manufacturing Reliability Engineer
Location : Lafayette, IN 47905 (Onsite )
Duration : 12+ months
Must have skills:
Technical Skills (Required):
1. CNC machining Centers & misc. assets maintenance operation experience
2. Statistical & reliability data analytics, & root cause analysis
3. Microsoft O365 / Power BI
Soft Skills (Required):
1. Clear and fluent English with both oral and written communications
2. Growth mindset, aggressive and outgoing to learn processes at Caterpillar
3. Ability to work independently and with a team
4. Work with a sense of urgency but must be balanced with priorities given to Safety & Ergonomics as well as Quality.
Good to Have Skills
(Desired)
4. Black Belt certified
5. Llumin CMMS+ https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fllumin.com%2f&c=E,1…
6. Project Management, New Capital Introduction (NCI) 7. Hands-on CNC experience, including machine setup 8. Operation / Programming / Coaching
Detailed Job
Description:
Typical task breakdown:
- Perform data analysis & support maintenance team to improve machine availability.
- Lead data driven reliability initiatives for critical assets, with a primary focus on increasing machine uptime and MTBF.
- Analyze Llumin downtime data to identify recurring issues and find reliability gaps.
- Initiate RCCA efforts for chronic failures, ensuring PCAs are put in place to address true root causes.
- Evaluate preventive maintenance activities against actual downtime drivers. Identify gaps and ineffective PMs.
- Propose data-driven PM improvements, frequency/interval changes, and new PM tasks.
- Coordinate with Maintenance, Operations, and OEMs/Integrators on inspections, diagnostics, and corrective actions on critical assets.
- Track machine health indicators such as MTBF, MTTR, availability, and PM compliance.
- Put together clear one-pagers, detailing failures and what must change to stop them.
- Develop repeatable reliability analysis processes that can be duplicated across multiple machines and value streams.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
1. Black Belt certification (optional) with a focus on machining centers maintenance operations, reliability data analytics (Statistical Data Analysis / Llumin maintenance data / Power BI) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) activities.
2. Experience in manufacturing operations, RCCA on maintenance repairs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with safety and reliability standards.
- Improve machine availability & OEE through loss analysis & corrective actions.
- Analyze maintenance data to identify trends, diagnose issues, and develop actionable recommendations for improvement.
- Manage critical spares and obsolescence strategy.
- Lead root cause investigations and implement permanent fixes.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Deploy TPM and operator care on constraint machining centers.
- Influence reliability in new equipment design and commissioning.
- Implement predictive maintenance (vibration, lubrication, thermal monitoring) initiative.
- Coach operators and technicians on defect tagging and basic care.