Reliability Expert

About the role

Solenis is looking for a Reliability Expert to support manufacturing operations across the Americas. The role drives equipment reliability, maintenance excellence and asset performance improvement across multiple sites, working closely with maintenance, operations, engineering and plant leadership to reduce downtime, improve preventive and predictive maintenance and build sustainable reliability systems. The position is based in Mexico.

Key responsibilities

• Lead regional reliability improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, equipment failures, maintenance costs and production losses.
• Analyze equipment performance, failure history, maintenance data and production losses to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and improve preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, lubrication, inspection and condition monitoring programs.
• Facilitate root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, bad actor reviews and corrective action plans for critical equipment issues.
• Support maintenance planning and scheduling to improve work execution, backlog management and maintenance productivity.
• Partner with operations and maintenance teams across Americas sites to improve equipment ownership, operator care, basic equipment conditions and reliability culture.
• Track reliability KPIs such as downtime, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule compliance, maintenance cost and asset performance trends.
• Provide remote and on-site support to Americas manufacturing sites, sharing best practices, standardizing reliability processes and supporting cross-site capability building.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance Engineering or a related technical field.
• Strong manufacturing maintenance and reliability experience, preferably in chemical or industrial settings, with at least 10 years of experience.
• Fluent in Spanish and in English.

Required skills

• Solid knowledge of reliability tools and methods, including RCA, FMEA, PM optimization, condition monitoring and bad actor elimination.
• Experience with CMMS systems such as SAP PM, Maximo or similar platforms for maintenance planning, work order management and reliability reporting.