Senior Reliability Engineer (michigan)

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · MI

This Senior Reliability Engineer role focuses on leading reliability assessments, improving maintenance strategies, and conducting root cause analysis for electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure in critical facilities like data centers. The role involves analyzing asset performance, developing risk mitigation plans, and providing technical support, with a strong emphasis on data-driven improvements and influencing design decisions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead reliability assessments and improvement initiatives across electrical, mechanical, and controls-related infrastructure.
  2. Review facility acceptance and commissioning activities to ensure systems are delivered in a reliable, supportable, and maintainable condition.
  3. Design and improve maintenance strategies that enhance uptime, reduce maintenance complexity, and optimize lifecycle performance.
  4. Lead root cause analysis and corrective action development for significant or recurring reliability issues.
  5. Analyze asset utilization, maintenance history, performance trends, and failure patterns to drive data-backed improvements.

Skills

Required

  • 6–10 years of experience in critical facilities, reliability engineering, commissioning, maintenance engineering, or uptime-critical infrastructure environments.
  • Broad familiarity with mission-critical electrical, mechanical, and controls systems and how they interact operationally.
  • Experience leading RCAs, maintenance strategy improvements, and technical support in live facility environments.
  • Strong technical judgment and systems thinking.
  • Strong data analysis and structured problem-solving capability.
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
  • Strong communication with technical and operational stakeholders.
  • Ability to translate operational issues into scalable reliability improvements.

Nice to have

  • Experience with commissioning reviews, reliability analytics, lifecycle cost analysis, or maintenance strategy design.
  • Familiarity with BMS/EPMS/controls data, asset health modeling, or fleet reliability practices.
  • Advanced knowledge of critical environment operations or design is a plus
  • CMRP, CRE, or related reliability certification is a plus.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field preferred; equivalent industry experience also valued.