Reliability Engineers will typically have a broad understanding of maintaining Rotating Machines, Instruments, or Electrical equipment.

They may be specialist or broadly experienced, and will find work in any engineering sector – petrochemicals, oil and gas, nuclear, pharmaceutical, process, energy and utilities. As a reliability engineer you will be involved in analysis of equipment performance, and undertake historical trend analysis.

Reliability Engineers will look at RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and facilitation, they will have knowledge of various reliability modelling techniques and their application CBM (Condition Based Maintenance) (Vibration/Oil Analysis/Thermography etc).

Usually applicants for reliability engineers jobs will have a good understanding of RCM, FMEA, FMECA, RBI, SIL. They will have knowledge and experience of criticality assessment and interpretation of results and carry out RCAs . Reliability Engineers will also perform statistical analysis of performance and equipment history, they will have CMMS knowledge often using a programme called Maximo or sometimes SAP.

These engineers will have a solid working knowledge of rotating equipment, including spares and analysis. They will use their knowledge to maintain the required technical quality of work, ensuring that work output complies with the relevant internal procedures and industry standards Ensure as far as practically possible all assigned work is carried out in compliance with agreed budget and schedule Communication and presentation skills are useful and valued in this role as reliability engineers are often required to take part in discussions with clients and visit offshore installations in the case of oil and gas or onshore site plants.