August Bioservices
Reliability Engineer
Nashville, Tennessee
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
Data AnalysisAccessibilityProcess ImprovementCustomer SupportSolidWorksAutoCADPLCGMPLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingWritingLean ManufacturingGxP
About the role
- Headquartered in Nashville, TN - one of the fastest-growing and most exciting cities in the United States - August Bioservices is a privately-owned, high-growth, and high-impact Contract Development Manufacturing Organization (CDMO).
- Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role converts recurring failures, deviations, quality events, safety concerns, and performance losses into technically sound and measurable improvements.
- It is intentionally focused on eliminating systemic causes-not owning day-to-day equipment setup or serving as the primary coordinator during emergency breakdowns.
Responsibilities
- Our work is instrumental in helping to develop molecules today that can become the life-changing therapies of tomorrow.
- To support our growth plans, August is investing significant capital in a two-phase expansion project - including building a new state-of-the-art facility adjacent to our current facility.
- The Reliability Engineer is the system owner for equipment performance, operational risk, and sustainable improvement across existing manufacturing equipment, process-support systems, and selected facility assets.
- The Reliability Engineer leads root cause analysis, establishes asset reliability strategies, develops design and process changes, and verifies that corrective actions remain effective.
- The role partners closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Quality, Validation, Automation, MSAT, EHS, and Project Engineering.
- Develop and maintain reliability strategies for critical assets based on equipment criticality, failure history, product/process risk, and lifecycle stage.
- Build and maintain equipment criticality assessments, bad-actor lists, reliability roadmaps, and risk-ranked improvement backlogs.
- Support asset lifecycle decisions, including repair-versus-replace analyses, obsolescence planning, spare-parts strategy, and capital recommendations.
- Lead structured RCAs for repeat, high-risk, or high-impact equipment and process failures using appropriate methods such as 5-Why, fault-tree analysis, fishbone, FMEA, and data trending.
- Provide technical support to investigations, deviations, CAPAs, audit responses, and quality or safety events involving equipment performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5 or more years of engineering experience in manufacturing, maintenance, equipment reliability, process engineering, or a related field.
- Working knowledge of preventive/predictive maintenance, equipment criticality, FMEA, lifecycle risk, and reliability metrics.
- Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, electrical schematics, technical manuals, control narratives, and equipment data.
- Demonstrated experience leading RCAs and implementing permanent corrective actions for complex equipment or process failures.
- Experience developing or implementing equipment modifications through a controlled engineering-change process.
- Strong technical writing, data analysis, project execution, facilitation, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize risk, and influence execution without direct authority over partner functions.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of cGMP, 21 CFR Parts 210/211, data integrity, change control, deviation/CAPA systems, and commissioning/qualification practices.
- Experience with automated manufacturing or packaging equipment, aseptic processing, clean utilities, HVAC/cleanrooms, instrumentation, PLC/HMI systems, or process historians.
- Experience using a CMMS/EAM system and analyzing work-order, downtime, alarm, process, and maintenance-cost data.
- CMRP, CRE, CRL, Lean Six Sigma, vibration analysis, thermography, or related certification/training.
- Experience with AutoCAD, SolidWorks, statistical-analysis tools, or data-visualization platforms.
- Physical and Work Environment Requirements
- Regularly works in office, manufacturing, mechanical, warehouse, laboratory, and controlled environments and may be required to follow gowning and PPE requirements.
- Must be able to access equipment areas, climb stairs or ladders where permitted, stand or walk for extended periods, and inspect machinery in operating and non-operating states.
Benefits
- For those seeking dynamic opportunities, rewarding career paths and a chance to make a difference in global health, come grow with August!
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