Reliability Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Reliability Engineer with an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q clearance to join our team supporting the DOE's Y-12 National Security Complex ! This position is full-time and will be based out of Oak Ridge, TN.

Responsibilities

• Provide a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability.
• Fill a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates and maximize equipment reliability.
• Define and provide implementation support for recommendations that ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety / security systems.
• Provide reliability-based technical support for Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management and Craft personnel.
• Gather, review, and analyze data concerning facility or equipment Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Inspect ability (RAMI) specifications.
• Review technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspect ability features of systems, equipment and facilities including technical basis documentation, manuals and datasheets.
• Lead role in integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables.
• Develop proactive maintenance strategies for structures, systems and components.
• Perform Equipment Failure Mode Identification and Root Cause Failure Analysis.
• Trend Analysis of structures, systems, and components.
• Define, develop, implement, revise, and monitor Asset Management Plan(s) for structures, systems and components.
• Effective deployment of condition based, predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence.
• Complete and presentation of both RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis to internal and external engineering partners. Analysis to include labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and life-cycle cost analysis.

Requirements

About the Site

The NNSA's Y-12 National Security Complex, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is the nation's only source of enriched uranium nuclear weapon components and provides enriched uranium for the U.S. Navy as well as excels in materials science, precision manufacturing, and stores enriched uranium. Y-12 supports efforts to reduce nuclear proliferation risk and performs work for other government agencies (energy.gov).

ABOUT GEM

GEM Technologies, Inc. (GEM) is an award-winning federal contractor with more than 30 years of experience providing environmental, construction, facility management, and technical services to federal agencies, state and local governments, and commercial organizations. Founded in 1994 as a nuclear engineering firm to support federal operations in East Tennessee, GEM has since expanded into a nationwide, multi-disciplinary provider with over 270 employees and a diverse portfolio of contracts in the environmental, nuclear, and defense sectors. Some reasons to join GEM are :

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

GEM's offered compensation is dependent on candidates' education , qualifications , and relevant years of experience . To recruit and retain our exceptional staff, we offer the opportunity to elect benefit packages that best suit our employee's needs; this includes, but is not limited to, a competitive Salary, Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (including HSA & PPO options), Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, Life Insurance, and a matching 401(k) Retirement Plan.

Please Note : With the exception of mandated state requirements, GEM does not publish salary information on external job boards; as such, most ranges listed are estimates made by vendors and not actual salary ranges.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

GEM Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.