Reliability Engineer

About the role

IKO Pacific, a manufacturing facility in Sumas, Washington, is looking for a Reliability Engineer. The role provides precise, prioritized reliability engineering services in a safe and productive way, minimizing production losses and maintenance cost per unit while supporting IKO's core values. This is a safety-sensitive position.

Key responsibilities

• Lead training on the Maximo-integrated Maintenance Management System (MMS), 5-Why root cause analysis and troubleshooting to sustain mechanical, electrical and process FMECA/RCM programs.
• Take part in corporate reliability meetings, training, webinars and SMRP events, and lead surveys, questionnaires and benchmarking for reliability assessments.
• Analyze Prodac/Maximo data on production loss and maintenance cost to set high-value targets for RCA, FMECA and RCM.
• Run Pareto analyses of downtime, rate reduction and waste to find critical assets and optimize shutdown PMs and spare parts strategies.
• Build a self-sufficient condition monitoring program starting with ultrasonic precision lubrication and expanding to ultrasonic and vibration technologies.
• Troubleshoot and design for reliability, oversee contractor installation and commissioning, and monitor equipment modifications and critical parts.
• Train plant Maximo users, update criticality rankings per IKO FMECA standards, and standardize PM and PdM task formats around condition-based inspections.
• Work with other plants to develop and optimize PM/PdM programs, prioritizing work orders by production loss Pareto analysis.

Required profile

• University degree in Engineering (preferably Mechanical Engineering).
• 3+ years of reliability experience in continuous process manufacturing.
• Experience facilitating dozens of successful RCAs and with FMECA, production loss analysis and failure mitigation.
• Fluent English, verbal and written, with good presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to other IKO sites; must be able to work legally in the United States.
• Operational and supervisory experience is a plus.

Required skills

• Familiarity with condition monitoring tools such as vibration analysis, ultrasonics, lubrication and thermography.
• Proficiency with building standardized PMs and PdMs in Maximo or a similar CMMS, MS Office and AutoCAD.

What we offer

• Compensation of $85k to $90k.
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance, health spending account, short-term disability and 401k match.
• Paid vacation, floating days, tuition reimbursement and employee discounts.