Reliability Engineer

For our client, an international company based in Neuchâtel, we are looking for a Reliability Engineer.

General Information:

• Start date: ASAP
• End date: till 31/03/2026 with extension possibility
• Contract: temporary (via Randstad Professionals)
• Workplace: Neuchâtel, on site
• Workload: 100%

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Improving the reliability of equipment, critical systems and maintenance processes by applying the principles of Reliability Engineering program.
• Apply Root Cause Analysis methodologies to improve equipment that support manufacturing operations in a dynamic, fast-paced cGMP, biotechnology environment.
• Measure reliability performance and demonstrate success of improvements.
• Lead reliability driven actions that require independent and/or collaborative judgment.
• Support capital projects as needed.
• May be assigned other duties.

Maintenance Strategy:

• Determine the Equipment Importance Level for Equipment/System.
• Determine maintenance strategies based on Equipment/System importance level for new and existing equipment/System.
• Develop maintenance plans for new and existing equipment/systems,
• Responsible for the technical content of preventive maintenance SOPs.
• Responsible for the effectiveness of the maintenance programs, ensure accurate work instructions.

Preventive maintenance optimization:

• Identify opportunities for improvements in maintenance programs and implement appropriate changes to the maintenance strategy for equipment.
• Own the equipment maintenance improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate requests for PM extensions, provide technical justification and approve if justified

Equipment Prioritization and Predictive maintenance program management:

• Identify Worst Performers (“Bad Actors” and “Waste Producers”).
• Determine the appropriate Hierarchy for Equipment/System.
• Define strategies and methodologies to prevent functional failures, also detecting the onset of functional failures in their earliest stages.
• Responsible for the implementation of predictive maintenance across the facility.

Failure Analysis and CAPAs:

• Lead and/or participate in Root Cause Analysis Teams.
• Perform analysis of failures applying appropriate analysis techniques (data analysis techniques, FTA, RCA, RCFA), in order to identify and eliminate the causes of functional failures.
• Inspect and analyze damaged parts detected during maintenance activities.
• Own the equipment reliability related relevant CAPAs.
• Respond to audit findings that are equipment maintenance relevant.
• Collaborate and provide support to engineering organizations and to production.
• Identify and communicate opportunities for operating and design improvements. Collaborate to develop engineering solutions.

Spare parts management; CMMS; Metrics:

• Responsible for accurate content of equipment master data within CMMS
• Define the content of the equipment spare parts list (EPL), BOMs, and stock level. Responsible for their accurate, complete and updated content.
• Perform functional equivalency assessment for spare parts.
• Participate in the development and evaluation of technical suppliers and/or providers of maintenance services.

Equipment performance, Data Analysis and Trends:

• Own the monitoring concepts.
• Report key performance metrics for equipment/systems.
• Monitor and analyze data and trends for equipment that are of most importance to the business.
• Report the progress and effectiveness of Reliability Engineering Improvement initiatives.

Training and Documentation:

• Apply and teach Reliability concepts. Provide necessary training and skill refinement to technicians and operators.
• Collaborate to develop appropriate and complete troubleshooting for equipment/system issues.
• With Site Engineering, ensure availability of OEM manuals, vendor drawings, vendor literature.

Your profile:

• Professional experience in facilities and utilities in pharmaceutical industry in a GMP environement-
• Engineering level - university
• French and English fluent
• Familiar with preventive maintenance (PM) and calibration maintenance (CM) process workflow
• Operational maintenance methods
• Based on fact and datas
• Methods oriented
• Analytics

Critical / Key skills:

- Knowledge of a GMP environment

- Operationnal maintenance methods

Language & IT Skills:

- English and French - speaking & writing