Have You Considered a Career in Reliability Engineering? You might be a great Reliability Engineer if you’re….
Creative, diligent, dedicated, and determined. REs need to be able to solve problems effectively, learn along the way, and make decisions quickly. Essential soft skills include problem-solving, teamwork, composure under pressure, written and verbal communication, and relationship building.
Manufacturing Plant Reliability Design Site Reliability Reliability Engineer Engineer Engineer
Education: Education: Education: A mechanical or electrical engineering Typically requires an advanced degree BS degree in computer science or a degree. Applicable certifications in engineering or physics. Applicable related discipline, or equivalent include the Reliability Engineering certifications include the Reliability experience. Applicable certifications Certification and Certified Engineering Certification and the include the Certified Site Reliability Maintenance and Reliability Certified Reliability Engineer. Engineer. Professional (CMRP). Responsibilities Responsibilities Responsibilities Identify and manage asset and Evaluate and qualify new product Apply software development skills system reliability risks that could designs for reliability. and mindset to IT operations, with negatively impact operations. Plan and implement accelerated the goal of improving the reliability Achieve maximum asset and life tests, write test reports, and of large systems through system uptime by tracking and lead design failure mode and automation and continuous finding ways to minimize effects analysis. integration and delivery. production losses and high costs. Perform reliability budgeting, Ensure the reliability and Manage risks to attain strategic estimating, and reliability risk availability of cloud-based objectives using tools such as mitigation. platform services, query execution, criticality analysis, FMEA, RCA, and Follow the reliability life cycle of data processing, and more. critical spares analysis. products from concept to design, Learn how to work closely with Manage the Predictive development, manufacturing, field product developers to ensure that Maintenance Strategy and the operation, and field returns to the designed solution responds to online condition monitoring design in and confirm reliability at availability, performance, security, programs. every stage. and maintainability requirements. Provide engineering support in the Generate maintenance task design and installation stages of analyses and maintenance plans, new assets and the modification of and conduct maintainability existing assets. demonstrations to help translate Help facilities management, customer requirements into technicians, and production product specifications. personnel to mitigate operational issues.
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Adapted from the article, “Have you Considered a Career in Reliability Engineering?” by Michael Blanchard