Reliability Engineer

Caterpillar — Lafayette, Indiana

Career Area: Manufacturing Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. Job Summary: The Reliability Engineer will assist in the structure and execution of the *NEW* LEC proactive maintenance strategy. You will utilize your deep understanding of maintenance functions and key metrics, interactions with different systems, cross functional collaboration within the maintenance organization, and operations in totality to solve complex technical challenges. You will be responsible for creating and executing a Preventative Maintenance (PM) plan for every asset and establishing metrics that govern the plan. Responsibilities: Lead data‑driven reliability initiatives for critical assets, with a primary focus on increasing machine uptime and MTBF. Analyze Llumin downtime data to identify recurring issues and find reliability gaps. Initiate RCCA efforts for chronic failures, ensuring PCAs are put in place to address true root causes. Evaluate preventive maintenance activities against actual downtime drivers. Identify gaps and ineffective PMs. Propose data-driven PM improvements, frequency/interval changes, and new PM tasks. Coordinate with Maintenance, Operations, and OEMs/Integrators on inspections, diagnostics, and corrective actions on critical assets. Track machine health indicators such as MTBF, MTTR, availability, and PM compliance. Put together clear one-pagers, detailing failures and what must change to stop them. Develop repeatable reliability analysis processes that can be duplicated across multiple machines and value

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