Plant Equipment Reliability Systems Engineer
Company: Arconic Tennessee Operations
Location: 2300 N. Wright Road, Alcoa, TN 37701, US
Schedule: Full time | Shift: Day | Req ID: 113309 | Degree: Bachelor’s
Your day, reimagined
Morning begins on the plant floor, where safety sets the tone. You join the daily maintenance huddle, align on priorities, and scan condition-based monitoring dashboards for early warning signs. Before lunch, you’re mapping out asset hierarchies and refining criticality scores. In the afternoon, you’re shoulder-to-shoulder with Maintenance and Engineeringfacilitating an RCM/FMEA on a bad actor, coaching a planner through CMMS work-flow discipline, or advancing a lubrication excellence initiative. You wrap by publishing a concise performance report for plant leadership, highlighting trends, mitigations, and the next set of reliability experiments.
What you’ll lead
- Champion EHS practicesmodel safe behaviors, surface hazards, and drive mitigations.
- Own the build-out of a plant-wide reliability management system that raises equipment uptime and stability.
- Standardize practices across areas in partnership with Maintenance and Engineering.
- Lead and contribute to projects that elevate equipment and process performance.
- Participate in daily management and maintenance meetings to maintain alignment and momentum.
- Train engineers and craft personnel; brief leaders with crisp presentations and reports.
Tools and methods you’ll deploy
- Develop equipment/asset hierarchies and maintain data integrity.
- Facilitate criticality analysis and asset risk prioritization.
- Conduct RCM and FMEA on high-impact systems.
- Author and optimize maintenance plans and PM strategies.
- Coach disciplined CMMS and Work Management usage to strengthen planning and scheduling.
- Advance Lubrication Excellence in partnership with production centers and maintenance.
- Specify, procure, and apply predictive and condition-based monitoring technologies.
Additional impact
- Lead root cause analyses and hands-on troubleshooting.
- Create and refine queries, KPIs, and reports that drive continuous improvement.
- Provide timely data and insights for leaders’ decision-making.
Qualifications Basic
- Bachelor’s degree in Reliability, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering (accredited).
- 3+ years in manufacturing within Maintenance, Engineering, or Reliability.
- Proven track record delivering improvement projects as an individual contributor and as a project lead.
- Data analytics capability: data collection, transformation, analysis, summarization, and presentation.
- Thrives in both team-based collaboration and independent work.
- Clear, confident communication across shop floor, peers, and plant leadership.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Preferred
- CMRP certification.
- 5+ years in maintenance or reliability-focused roles.
- Depth in PM Optimization, CMMS configuration/training, CBM implementation, and lubrication practices.
- Experience applying Lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma methods.
Physical requirements / working conditions
- Ability to meet physical requirements and withstand working conditions described by the Department.
Preferred proficiencies
- Lean Manufacturing Principles
- Six Sigma Experience
