Reliability Engineer, NA
Apply now »Date: Jun 30, 2025
Location: Atlanta, GA, US
Company: JM Huber Corporation
Portfolio Business: Huber Engineered Materials
J.M. Huber Corporation is one of the largest privately held, family-owned companies in the United States. Established in 1883, we are a diversified, global supplier of specialty and commodity chemicals, hydrocolloid solutions, engineered wood products and natural resources to customers spanning a wide variety of industries. With approximately $3 billion in sales and 4,000 employees worldwide, we have a material presence in more than 20 countries.
Position Summary
The position will be located at any of the Huber Engineered Materials (HEM) sites in North America or Europe. As a Reliability Engineer for HEM, you will support efforts in all of our NA/EMEA manufacturing plants to improve process and equipment reliability. You will use your engineering skills to work on large rotating equipment, milling operations, and dryer operations, and various packaging operations. You will work directly with Maintenance, Engineering and Operations to identify, prioritize and execute improvement opportunities across the region. With the performance objectives of achieving higher reliability, failure elimination and cost reduction goals.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
- Partner closely with area Operations, Engineering and Maintenance to improve equipment availability and process reliability reducing unplanned production losses
- Lead projects that provide engineered solutions to complex problems that increase equipment and process reliability
- Partner with area maintenance to target reliability and maintainability issues, reduce cost, and improve productivity
- Provide support for plant outages and shutdowns
- Understand and utilize Lean Six Sigma tools for problem solving and risk elimination
- Support initiatives in assigned area
- Identify and prioritize opportunities for reliability improvements by mining information from Oracle EAM, reliability systems and production logs
- Lead and manage Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations
- Manage FMEA analyses on critical production assets
- Provide reliability input to capital projects
- Provide technical leadership at all levels of the plant organization with special emphasis on interfacing with maintenance crews
- Guide problem solving teams to identify, design and implement improvements
- Ability to travel 50% of the time - NA
Specialized/Technical Knowledge or Required Skills
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering required. Mechanical engineering is highly preferred.
- 5+ years of reliability engineering experience, including experience in a chemical, mining or related environment required
- Experience with rotating equipment (pumps, blowers, roller mills, ball mills, compressor) required
- Strong core engineering and reliability engineering skills, with the desire to learn advanced reliability engineering principles
Our employees are our strongest asset, and their safety, health, and well-being is our highest priority. We respect the individual by providing opportunities for professional and personal development. Our Principles drive us to create an inclusive workplace where employees share core values, show dignity and respect toward others, and work hard to achieve their best performance.
J.M. Huber Corporation is an EEO employer. Pre-employment drug screening is required
Nearest Major Market: Atlanta