Reliability Engineer

With broader and deeper capabilities than any other company, CBRE is the leading full-service real estate services and investment organization in the world.

Professional who understands the principles of performance evaluation and prediction to improve facility equipment / systems safety, reliability and maintainability. A key member of the Centre of Excellence and is responsible for bringing an analytical engineering focus to the team. Role supporting plant, research & development and office space.

• Work under the direction of Technical Operations Group with primary responsibility for reliability and maintainability (R&M) projects of broad scope and complexity.
• Provides ongoing research for new products, processes and tools available within the industry and beyond the industry that may be appropriate for the account.
• Translate the research conducted into appropriate recommendations.
• Create and develop technical approaches, which are responsive and aligned to customer's maintenance requirements.
• Ensure that approaches are statistically valid and are aligned with current state-or-the-art practices and contractual requirements.
• Develop work-study programs and work flow diagrams.
• Interpret R&M statistical data and draw conclusions with supporting rationales.
• Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures to understand the levels of reliability.
• Comply and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting systems, product and processes
• Provide continuing technical guidance to operations regarding R&M characteristics of equipment, including failure and maintenance support characteristics to ensure that design activity results in equipment and systems that meet high reliability, maintainability, system safety and human factors standard.
• Oversee and execute root-cause failure analysis program.
• Provide input to life cycle cost models relative to R&M elements.
• Review, where applicable subcontractor’s proposals for reliability program.
• Work with account teams during design phase of new equipment projects.
• Administers programs, such as Thermography, vibration analysis, lube oil monitoring, for the site and regionally.
• Implement owner requested maintenance programs (boiler safety upgrades, implement a legionella program, high voltage electrical safety upgrades)
• Provide innovation ideas of new tech/process’ to reduce downtime or efficiency of the maintenance staff
• Overseeing Capital planning based on risk for each site in the account
• Review critical equipment for the correct preventative maintenance tasks
• Maintains on-going communication with clients, owners, facility management team and vendors.
• Implements and administers inventory control programs/purchase parts and supplies.
• Develops specifications and assists in solicitation and administration of maintenance/repair service contracts.
• Ensures compliance with applicable codes, requisitions, government agencies and company directives as relates to building operations. Other duties as assigned.

• University degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6 Years minimum experience. 3-4 years maintenance / reliability supervisory experience.
• Hands on maintenance and supervisory experience in a multi-process industry.
• Demonstrated ability to employ predictive maintenance technology (vibration analysis, infrared analysis, ultrasonic analysis, etc.) with electrical and electronic systems knowledge and experience.
• Experience in Six Sigma preferred. Excellent planning, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• MS Office literacy required (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Previous experience with a CMMS (Maximo or SAP equivalent).
• Experience in Maximo or another CMMS