Step into a day on the road with ATS
Morning in a pharmaceutical plant, afternoon in a metals facility, evening flight across the country—your calendar reflects a career built on movement and impact. As a Principal Field Reliability Engineer with ATS, you champion our safety culture while guiding customers toward proactive, reliability-centered operations across diverse industries.
What you’ll tackle
- Lead reliability-centered maintenance initiatives in a variety of customer environments—driving cultural change toward proactive manufacturing.
- Coach and mentor plant teams, embedding reliability best practices and building capability in root cause and reliability analysis.
- Surface the top drivers of lost production and avoidable maintenance costs; brief site and enterprise leadership on findings and priorities.
- Design and justify corrective actions that address true root causes, clearly articulating the economic impact of each recommendation.
- Own and accelerate equipment improvement projects—from concept through implementation—using both current and emerging technologies to boost uptime and asset performance.
- Analyze performance trends, failure histories, and corrective maintenance data to develop engineered solutions, optimized PM strategies, and reliability techniques tailored to each asset’s risk profile.
- Provide hands-on technical support to operations and maintenance personnel for complex equipment troubleshooting.
- Apply predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance methods (e.g., vibration, MCE, oil analysis, infrared, ultrasound) to identify and control risk before failure.
- Partner with maintenance leaders to prioritize assets and actions using failure probabilities and risk dimensions (compliance, supply, strategy, cost).
- Drive corrective action tracking and follow-through, ensuring all RCA projects are documented and sustained.
- Ensure alignment with regulatory obligations and ATS policies and procedures at all times.
Travel & work context
Extensive travel—local, national, and international—is part of your routine as you engage with multi-site manufacturers.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
- 8+ years of reliability experience spanning two or more manufacturing sites.
- Fluency across the full reliability toolkit: FMEA, cause-and-effect methods, root cause failure analysis, life-cycle costing, and risk analysis.
- Strong mechanical or electrical systems expertise, with the ability to research and apply new equipment technologies and trends.
- Exceptional problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and decision-making capability.
- Comfort with CMMS/maintenance systems and common software tools (including Microsoft Office); strong reporting and technical writing skills.
- Outstanding verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation; proven relationship builder.
Preferred extras
- Leadership ambitions and a track record of influence without authority.
- Experience with data trend analysis, vibration analysis, motor current analysis, oil analysis, lubrication and hydraulic testing, laser alignment, nondestructive testing, infrared thermography, ultrasound and acoustic reliability technology, Weibull analysis, and Lean or Six Sigma methodologies.
- Working knowledge of cGMP, NETA, EPA, and OSHA.
- Certifications such as CMRP, Green Belt, or STS.
Competencies that set you apart
- Drive & Motivation
- Interpersonal Skills
- Task Management
- Strategic Skills
- Customer Focus
- Self-awareness
- Management & Leadership
Physical demands and work environment
Expect time on your feet and on the move: standing and walking are frequent, with regular use of hands, tools, and instruments. You’ll reach overhead, work at heights using ladders or lifts, and occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in tight spaces. Some tasks involve sitting. You may need to lift and carry items exceeding 50 lbs. Close and color vision are routinely required. You’ll sometimes work outdoors and around energized systems, with potential exposure to electrical hazards. Most work occurs in loud factory settings where hazardous materials may be present and floors can be greasy or slippery.