Reliability Engineer

An educational platform on tribology — the science of friction, wear and lubrication

Who is it for

Engineers, researchers, students and industry professionals

Founded in 1906, over the last 110+ years’ CEMEX has grown into a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Here at CEMEX we offer our employees competitive wages, career growth, excellent benefits including health, dental & vision plans, vacation or paid time off, employee assistance program and retirement plan options, along with over a century of stability to build your next career on To learn more about our company culture and why you should join us, visit us at www.cemexusa.com/careers. For direct access to CEMEX Career Opportunities, visit us at https://jobs.cemex.com/.

Job Summary The overall objective of the Reliability Engineer is to ensure safe and reliable operation of production facilities at the lowest life cycle cost. Support planning of major and specialized maintenance jobs. Collaborate and participate in operations and maintenance jobs, developing and executing preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activity programs, and providing technical support to maintenance and operations functions in continuous improvement activities.

Job Responsibilities

To develop and to propose preventative, predictive and autonomous maintenance plans that equipment’s require from their start-up and throughout their life cycle, specifying and updating frequency for each maintenance task, based on a normal operation and on the objectives of the maintenance function.

To suggest specific activities for inspection, lubrication, cleaning, and change of parts to equipment’s, based on recommendations from the manufacturer, the supplier and from the own experience of the personnel in the Plant, to timely detect and/or to avoid equipment deterioration

To provide technical support and follow up to major and highly specialized maintenance jobs.

To direct work required for investigation costs of performances that seem to be out-of-line and recommend corrective actions.

To support and to promote technical development of personnel or work teams according to total productive maintenance.

To collaborate with technical office about the specification of new equipment, assuring reliability of operation and lowest of life cycle.

To control design and specifications of new parts or components that will be manufactured by a central (internal) workshop or by and external contractor.

To plan major shutdown work requests with a high degree of specialization, regarding instructions, human resources estimates, materials, special tools and estimated duration of the job.

Own and lead the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process (including meetings) for major failures to ensure prevention of re-occurrence

Perform vibration analysis.

Responsible for Tribology and analysis of the information.

Responsible of the generation of Notifications created from the Vibration Analysis and Tribology reports.

To ensure that new equipment handovers come with operation guides, troubleshooting guides and any relevant standard works

Utilize Six Sigma methodologies for continuous improvement of reliability

Adhere to all CEMEX, OSHA, and MSHA rules and regulations at all times and wear proper safety equipment while on plant grounds

Meet or exceed company safety standards

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

5 years of experience in heavy industrial/heavy manufacturing

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Proven knowledge of Preventative and Predictive maintenance methodologies and technologies

Proven experience in execution of reliability methodologies such as RCA, RCI, FMFA, Statistical downtime analysis, Fishbone analysis, etc.

Proven experience in engineering, specification and design of mechanical systems, assets and projects

Excellent communication, team interaction and presentation skills

Proven ability to work independently as well as lead/participate on cross functional teams

Proven experience as a self-starter who effectively manages multiple tasks and achieves results with minimal supervision

Proven understanding of electrical regulatory and industrial standards and codes

Proven understanding of control and instrumentation systems in an industrial manufacturing environment

CMRP or CRE status

Vibration Level 1 or 2 certification

Proven experience in CMMS systems

Proven knowledge of reliability methodologies and strategies such as RCM, TPM, Spare Parts Management, Planning and Scheduling

Working Co