Job Description / Responsibilities
A Reliability Engineer will have a keen interest in data and numbers, often collecting and analyzing
key data metrics from processes or components. From here, they can create statistical analysis,
charts, drawings, and reports to help illustrate and showcase potential issues within a product
lifecycle or business process and how to improve it. Many of these issues involve taking a macro
look at other factors and helping businesses make the best decisions.
A Reliability Engineer may work in an office as well as out in the field/in a plant.
• Identifying and reporting on potential failures within a process
• Designing new systems
• Applying general engineering knowledge to solve problems
• Performing tests and analysis
• Conduct routine engineering calculations
• Liaise with relevant teams on outcomes of tests/analysis
Some common forms of analysis related to reliability engineering include:
• Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
• Root cause analysis
• Functional analysis and functional failure analysis (e.g., function FMEA, FHA or FFA)
• Human error analysis
• Operational hazard analysis
• Preventative/Planned Maintenance Optimization (PMO)