Field Reliability Engineering Consultant

Field Reliability Engineering Consultant

Imagine starting your week in a high-volume packaging plant, midweek stepping into a pharmaceutical facility, and closing out in a metals operation overseas. You lead with safety, bring structure to chaos, and leave each site measurably more reliable than you found it. That's the rhythm of this role.

What You'll Do (Day-in-the-Life)

You'll travel extensively—locally, across the U.S., and internationally—to embed with client operations. Each engagement begins by aligning to the ATS safety culture and local procedures. You'll assess equipment and maintenance practices, facilitate reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) workshops, and coach customer teams on best practices. Using performance trends, failure data, and maintenance history, you'll uncover the biggest drivers of lost production and unnecessary spend, then translate those findings into prioritized actions with clear ROI.

• Lead cross-functional RCM efforts and mentor customer personnel in reliability disciplines.
• Diagnose root causes, quantify the economic impact, and present corrective options to leadership.
• Launch and drive equipment improvement initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Introduce and embed new processes/technologies that boost uptime and performance.
• Champion systems, standards, and proactive maintenance behaviors on the shop floor.
• Develop better maintenance strategies: PM optimization, precision tasks, and engineering fixes.
• Provide hands-on technical troubleshooting support to operations and maintenance teams.
• Apply predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance techniques to reduce risk before failure.
• Collaborate with maintenance leadership to rank assets/actions using failure probabilities and risk (compliance, supply, strategy, cost).
• Deliver training in Root Cause and Reliability Analysis; own corrective action tracking and follow-through to ensure all RCA work is documented.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and ATS policies/procedures.

What You Bring
Essential

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• 8+ years of reliability experience across at least two manufacturing sites.
• Fluency with a full toolkit of reliability methods and practices.
• Strong mechanical or electrical systems knowledge, including components, tools, and design principles.
• Hands-on capability with FMEA, cause-and-effect analysis, root cause failure analysis, life-cycle cost, and risk assessment.
• Curiosity for emerging equipment technologies and trends—and the ability to apply them.
• Advanced problem-solving, math, analytics, and sound decision-making.
• Comfort with CMMS/maintenance systems and common applications (Microsoft Office).
• Excellent verbal facilitation and presentation; strong technical writing and reporting.
• Ability to forge constructive, professional relationships with diverse stakeholders.

Preferred

• Ambition to step into future leadership responsibilities.
• Experience with: trend analysis, vibration, motor current, oil, lubrication and hydraulic testing, laser alignment, NDT, IR thermography, ultrasound, acoustic techniques, Weibull, and Lean/Six Sigma.
• Working knowledge of cGMP, NETA, EPA, and OSHA.
• Credentials such as CMRP, Green Belt, and/or STS.

Competencies

• Drive & Motivation
• Interpersonal Skills
• Task Management
• Strategic Skills
• Customer Focus
• Self-awareness
• Management & Leadership

Physical Demands & Work Environment

You'll frequently be on your feet and moving throughout industrial facilities, using your hands for fine tasks, reaching, and working at heights (ladders/lifts). Work can involve balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling in tight spaces, and consistent verbal communication in loud areas. Sitting occurs occasionally. You should be able to lift and move items exceeding 50 lbs at times. Close and color vision are regularly required. Expect intermittent outdoor exposure and occasional risk of electrical shock. Typical sites are factories—often very loud—with potential exposure to hazardous materials and slick or greasy floors.

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