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Senior Reliability Engineer

Kindeva Drug Delivery
Los Angeles, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Feb 2026
💰 $126,700/yr($95,500/yr$126,700/yr)

About the role

Our Work Matters
At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

The Impact You Will Make
This role as a Senior Reliability Engineer role to develop and manage the plant equipment maintenance strategy to reduce or eliminate downtime due to lack of reliability and availability, using the TPM methodology. Monitor and evaluate the plant capacity to achieve plant site financial strategy. Ensure that the different areas involved in maintenance are aligned

Role responsibilities
Tactical - Asset Reliability
• Monitor equipment data using TAM and D365 PM data, as well as details to analyze and identify the causes and propose the corresponding improvement actions
• Facilitates the development of the process related to maintenance (execution, planning, purchase of materials and services)
• Carry out internal audits (based on AMIS) of maintenance processes on a regular basis
• Collect and examine basic equipment maintenance problems, facilitating failure analysis for critical equipment (RCA, RCI, FMECA, REM) together with Technical Leaders, generating actions that improve reliability based on field experience and information obtained, considering impact and cost.
• Periodically review the maintenance plans, generating the necessary changes and redefining the maintenance approach for the equipment (OTF / CBM / FTM / DOM) based on analysis and field information.
• Contrast operation methods vs. reliability, detecting deficiencies at the training and operational level that affect the reliability of the equipment
Strategy - Asset Reliability
• Facilitate the development and correct application of the processes as defined in the SOPs.
• Determines the use of predictive maintenance technologies when the cost/benefit ratio is positive.
• Promote “Best Practice Sharing” inside and outside.
• Consider the impact of costs in the actions derived from the maintenance strategy, adapting these strategies to optimize the cost/benefit ratio, both in maintenance plans and in the level of spare parts stocks.
• Consider the impact of costs to carry out corrective actions for reliability problems in equipment already installed, carrying out analyzes to prevent future failures.
• Analyze the feasibility of cost-effective equipment improvement proposals, in technical and financial terms and available resources.
• Annually review strategy document for Eng. Head validation.
• Verify progress of the 5-year plan
• Evaluate maintenance contract services and make recommendations
Strategy- Lifetime & Backups
• Define the life strategy (Lyfe Cycle Cost) of equipment service taking into account productivity, costs and maintainability
• Define the backup strategy for formats and equipment, considering reliability, productivity and cost
• Manage the resulting action plans and ensure their compliance in quality, time and budget
• Identify investment / divestment opportunities
Introduction of new Equipment/Investment
• Participate in the definition of maintainability requirements (MTBF, MTTR, performance, etc.) and selection of productive equipment
• Reviews the installation and maintenance plans for new equipment, as well as the necessary basic spare parts
• Evaluates and communicates solutions to develop as "Most Effective", and their respective alternatives if available

Qualifications
• Bachelors Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
• Lean Manufacturing Methodology
• Advanced D354 (or equivalent) PM
• Asset Care experience
• 10+ years’ Engineer experience
• 5+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience
• 5+ years of maintenance or reliability engineering experience

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