Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer (Manufacturing Excellence)

Location: Davenport, Iowa
Work Type: 100% Onsite
Travel: Up to 50% across U.S. manufacturing plants
Compensation: $90,000 – $120,000 + full benefits + relocation assistance (possible)

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a maintenance firefighting position.  Northwest Talent Solutions LLC has been retained to recruit for a key client in the manufacturing and engineering sector. The client's identity will be shared with candidates who move forward in the selection process.

You will be part of a corporate Manufacturing Technology & Engineering group that supports multiple large-scale production facilities. Your focus is building reliability systems — not just repairing equipment after failure.

If you are frustrated by plants that say they want reliability but never invest in it this is the opposite environment.

Leadership is actively rolling out enterprise reliability standards across rolling mills and extrusion plants, and this engineer will help design how reliability is done across the company, not just within a single facility.

You will work directly with plant leadership, operations, maintenance, IT, and finance to improve equipment uptime, OEE, and operational performance.

What You'll Actually Do

You will lead reliability excellence initiatives across multiple manufacturing sites:

Implement Reliability Excellence systems across rolling and extrusion plants
Drive defect elimination and root cause problem solving
Build and improve preventive & predictive maintenance programs
Conduct criticality analysis and asset hierarchy development
Implement reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) practices
Support condition-based monitoring programs
Partner with plant operations and maintenance leaders
Identify improvement opportunities in OEE and productivity
Influence reliability culture across multiple facilities

This is a high-visibility role with exposure to plant leadership and corporate engineering.

What We're Looking For

Required
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Reliability Engineering, or related field
5+ years' experience in reliability, maintenance engineering, or equipment reliability
Experience in a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Ability to travel up to 50% between plants
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. (no sponsorship available)

Highly Preferred
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
FMEA / Root Cause Analysis
CMMS systems
Predictive maintenance / condition monitoring
CRE or CMRP certification
Data analysis and reporting (Excel, dashboards, visualization)

What Success Looks Like

Within the first year you will:
Standardize reliability practices across multiple sites
Improve equipment uptime and performance
Help plants move from reactive maintenance to predictive maintenance
Influence maintenance and operations culture

This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to move toward corporate reliability leadership or regional engineering management.

Work Environment

You will support a large industrial manufacturing organization that produces engineered materials used in transportation, aerospace, construction, and industrial applications. The company has over a century of operational history and is investing heavily in safety, operational excellence, and sustainable manufacturing.

Benefits

Full medical, dental, and vision
Retirement plan
Paid time off
Career growth and internal mobility
Relocation assistance (for top candidates)
Interview travel reimbursed

Compliance Notice

This position requires access to export-controlled technology under U.S. regulations (ITAR/EAR). Employment eligibility verification will be required at time of hire.

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

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If you're a reliability engineer who wants to build systems, not just fix machines, we want to speak with you.

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