Reliability Engineer

Job title: Reliability Engineer

About the Role Reliability Engineer at the Bangalore Technical Center (BTC) will provide reliability support to ExxonMobil Upstream, Midstream and Downstream assets globally. The role focuses on improving equipment reliability, maintenance planning, and risk management to optimize performance and uptime.

What You'll Do

• Conduct criticality assessments to rank assets by importance and risk.
• Develop Equipment Strategies for fleets based on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles.
• Perform data analysis and reliability modeling to predict performance and failures.
• Lead Fault Tree Analysis, Weibull analysis, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), and other root-cause investigations.
• Conduct RAM Analysis and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA).
• Analyze unplanned volume loss and drive reliability, availability, maintainability improvements.
• Manage PMO/PM optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with Project Reliability/Engineering to ensure reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
• Guide reliability and maintainability across equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an Annual Maintenance Plan.
• Lead value-added preventive maintenance tasks and utilize predictive and non-destructive testing methods to identify reliability issues.
• Provide input to a Risk Management Plan and mitigation strategies.
• Develop engineering solutions to recurring failures affecting capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance.
• Work with site teams to analyze assets for Asset Utilization, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Remaining Useful Life (RUL), and other reliability metrics.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Instrumentation Engineering, Chemical, or Reliability from a recognized university.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Reliability/electrical/mechanical/instrumentation/chemical engineering in manufacturing (Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Energy, Fertilizers, Automobiles preferred).
• Demonstrated effective communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Experience in Oil and Gas/Energy sector.
• Experience using statistical methods and probabilistic tools.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, analytics, and logical thinking.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills; proven leadership abilities; ability to multitask and prioritize workloads.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts such as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), lifecycle asset management, risk management, criticality assessment, equipment strategies, RCFA, Bad Actor identifications, Single Point of Failure (SPOF), Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA).
• Experience with RCM/Criticality Assessment, RAM, and Equipment Strategies.
• Should not have attended an interview for Reliability Engineer position in the last 1 year.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Medical plans, maternity leave and benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Global networking & cross-functional opportunities.
• Annual vacations & holidays.
• Day care assistance program.
• Training and development program.
• Tuition assistance program.
• Workplace flexibility policy.
• Relocation program.
• Transportation facility.
• Please note benefits may change from time to time without notice, subject to applicable laws.