Reliability Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Reliability Maintenance Engineer identifies equipment issues, leads reliability improvements, and supports preventive and predictive maintenance programs. This role works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, vendors, contractors, and plant leadership to improve equipment performance and support safe, efficient operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support equipment reliability and maintenance improvement strategies.
• Strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Analyze equipment performance, downtime, maintenance history, and operational delays.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Identify recurring equipment issues and recommend sustainable improvements.
• Support maintenance planning, job scopes, equipment priorities, and outage activities.
• Develop and improve Preventive Maintenance (PM) tasks, job plans, troubleshooting guides, and equipment-care standards.
• Support equipment upgrades, major repairs, capital projects, installations, and commissioning.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance to improve equipment availability, throughput, and operating consistency.
• Track reliability performance and communicate progress, risks, and action plans to plant leadership.
• Share reliability best practices across operating areas and facilities.
• Ensure all work complies with safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field preferred. Equivalent maintenance, reliability, or heavy industrial experience may be considered.
• Three to five years of experience in maintenance, reliability, equipment troubleshooting, operations support, or a related technical area.
• Knowledge of Preventive Maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance, equipment reliability, maintenance planning, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Ability to analyze equipment performance and maintenance data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Strong problem-solving, project execution, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively with hourly employees, front-line leaders, technical teams, vendors, contractors, and plant leadership.
• Ability to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation, including off-shift, weekend, holiday, outage, or extended-hour support as needed.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in tubular, steel, finishing, threading, heat treatment, inspection, or heavy industrial manufacturing.
• Knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), work-order management, and equipment-history tracking.
• Experience with predictive maintenance tools such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasonic testing, or condition monitoring.
• Familiarity with reliability metrics, including equipment availability, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), downtime, and PM effectiveness.
• Experience supporting major repairs, outages, equipment installation, commissioning, or startup.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, structured problem-solving, or other continuous-improvement methods.
• Experience working with union-represented employees.

Competency Summary

At U. S. Steel all employees are expected to display the following core competencies every day to advance corporate, team and individual goals:

Think: Think Critically and Drive Change
Lead:Develop Talent and Collaborate
Do: Empower Performance and Deliver Results

Company Overview

Since 1901, U. S. Steel has been a recognized leader in steel production. Today, as the first North American steel company to have declared a 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal, we remain as innovative as ever, leading transformation across our industry while continuing to make products for everyday life - from industries as far ranging as automotive, construction, containers and packaging, appliances, and energy.

Underneath it all is our Culture of Caring, which shows up in our community partnerships, charitable contributions, company-sponsored employee volunteer initiatives, scholarship programs, leadership training, and much more. And of course, it takes shape in a steadfast commitment to safety first in our workplaces and respect for our employees, who are United by Steel.

We are honored to have earned accolades and awards from well-regarded organizations, including the following:

• Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies® 2022, ’23, ‘24
• Disability: IN’s Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion 2021, ’22, ’23, ‘24
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Equality 100 Award 2020, ’21, ’22, ’23-24, ‘25
• Military Times’ Best for Vets: Employers 2023, ‘24

Conducting business with integrity and with the highest ethical values has underpinned U. S. Steel’s success for over 100 years, and it remains critical to our company’s success in the future. U. S. Steel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) according to job qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, genetics, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, disability status or status as a protected Veteran or any other legally protected group status. (California residents may visitwww.ussteel.com/CANotice regarding collection of personal information and U. S. Steel's privacy practices.)