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Are you looking to start, or even progress a career as a Reliability Engineer? If so, make sure you read on as we\u2019ve created this mini guide to help you understand what to expect from a career as a Reliability Engineer and tips for progressing your career opportunities.<\/p>\n

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What is a Reliability Engineer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Reliability Engineer<\/a> plays a key role in the lifecycle of a product. They oversee the assessment and management of the reliability of operations that could impact a product or business. This helps test current processes and highlight any failures or issues. This usually relates to manufacturing or engineering businesses that need to ensure their processes and equipment can reliably deliver the results required.<\/p>\n

The primary focus is to determine the reliability of components, equipment and processes. For example, if certain processes appear vulnerable to breaking, this can be highlighted by the Reliability Engineer proactivity, to help avoid such issues and help sustain high levels of productivity and efficiency. By documenting, prioritising, planning, delivering and evaluating a plant\u2019s operations, a Reliability Engineer helps minimise the risk and impact of failure in equipment and processes.<\/p>\n

Within reliability engineering, you may focus on areas such as: loss elimination, risk management and life cycle asset management. Each organisation will be structured slightly differently so daily tasks and responsibilities will vary, but the core principles will usually be around preventing failures within a manufacturing\/engineering setting.<\/p>\n

Reliability Engineers may also be asked to help conduct analysis into how an operation could cut costs while not impacting the risk of failures\/limitations. This involves having a comprehensive understanding of all the different elements of the process and testing to find potential answers. As well as identifying potential failures, reliability engineering helps to explain the root causes and underlying reasons for such potential issues. This can create valuable insights to help innovate and seek continual improvements.<\/p>\n

Reliability Engineer Job Description & Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Reliability Engineer will have a keen interest in data and numbers, often collecting and analysing key data metrics from processes or components. From here, they can create statistical analysis, charts, drawings, and reports to help illustrate and showcase potential issues within a product lifecycle or business process and how to improve it. Many of these issues involve taking a macro look at other factors and helping businesses make the best decisions.<\/p>\n

A Reliability Engineer may work in an office as well as out in the field\/in a plant.<\/p>\n

Although daily tasks will vary, the following can be typical of a Reliability Engineer:<\/p>\n