Loss Elimination

One of the fundamental roles of the Reliability Engineer is to track the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets, then find ways to reduce those losses or high costs. These losses are prioritized to focus efforts on the largest/most critical opportunities. The Reliability Engineer (in full partnership with the operations team) develops a plan to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis, obtains approval of the plan and facilitates the implementation.

Risk Management

Another role of the Reliability Engineer is to manage risk to the achievement of an organization’s objectives in the areas of asset capability, quality, and production.

Life Cycle Asset Management

The Reliability Engineer needs to be involved in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets.

Reliability Engineer Responsibilities and Duties

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