RELIABILITY ENGINEER

Founded in , Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day.
With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability.
The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables.
As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries.
The company had revenue of approximately $9.
billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.
For more information, visit www.
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Role As a Reliability Engineer at Eastman, you’ll support efforts in our manufacturing plants to improve process and equipment reliability.
You will be assigned to a specific area of the plant and work with Maintenance, Engineering and Operations to identify, prioritize, and execute improvement opportunities and to achieve reliability, failure elimination, and cost reduction goals.
Responsibilities.
•    Partner closely with area operations 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 as requested •    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 SAP, 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 as requested •    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 •    Work safely and promote the Eastman safety vision     Qualifications •    Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Mechanical engineering is highly preferred.
•    Previous reliability engineering experience, including experience in a chemical, petrochemical or related environment is required.
5+ years experience preferred.
•    Strong basic engineering and reliability engineering skills, with the desire to learn advanced reliability engineering principles •    Excellent verbal and written communication skills •    Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies •    Experience managing equipment preventive and predictive maintenance plan with asset management software (SAP preferred) •    Knowledge of common process equipment (pumps, fans, agitators, motors, valves, instrumentation etc.)   Please Note Eastman will not accept applicants for this offered position who require visa sponsorship, including those whose status is F-1 visa OPT who subsequently would require ongoing visa sponsorship.
Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.
Eastman is committed to creating a highly engaged workforce, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.
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