What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability Engineer III position at Omaha Public Power District?
Responsibilities
Reliability Engineer III
Position Overview
Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) delivers affordable, reliable, and environmentally responsible energy to the communities we serve. As a publicly owned utility, OPPD is committed to operational excellence, innovation, and ensuring long-term reliability across our generation fleet.
As a Reliability Engineer III, you will centralize efforts related to equipment reliability-improving maintenance strategies, creating standard work packets, developing or strengthening preventive maintenance standards, and ensuring sites have critical spare parts. You will strengthen asset performance by systematically prioritizing assets, analyzing failure modes and historical performance, building and evaluating reliability KPIs and statistical models, leading root cause investigations, identifying design or commissioning weaknesses, monitoring operational practices, reviewing and optimizing maintenance work orders, and auditing PM/CBM tasks to verify effectiveness.
You will also manage fleet-wide reliability improvement by developing and optimizing maintenance strategies, implementing corrective actions from causal analysis, directing updates to engineering standards and operating procedures, coordinating improvements with maintenance and operations teams, leading post-failure strategy changes, supporting spare-parts justification, expanding condition monitoring programs, embedding reliability principles in capital projects, supporting operator/technician training, and managing risk through structured risk registers or risk-based maintenance frameworks.
Finally, you will influence change and strengthen organizational capability by coaching teams, promoting high-reliability thinking, fostering disciplined questioning, teaching teams how to interpret system behaviors, modeling accountable leadership, driving documentation and adoption of standards, and reinforcing operational habits that sustain long-term reliability improvement.
The Impact You'll Have
Non-Shift Work
Time Demands:
Essential Position: This position will be required to report to work when business continuity needs are emergent and may be required to work hours beyond an employee's normal shift.
This position must be available for overtime work and callouts as required to ensure continuance of efficient operation.
This position must maintain 24-hour availability for technical and professional assistance, emergency response, and direction of remedial action in response to such emergencies, as well as maintain availability as required for on-call duty.
Work Location:
Office: Work will be performed in a modern office environment amid normal conditions of dust, odors, fumes, and noises.
Field: Work will be performed outside in a wide variety of weather conditions (snow, rain, heat, cold, wind, etc.), terrain, and other natural environmental hazards as well as pollen and other airborne allergens.
Generation Plant: Work will be performed inside with exposure to industrial building conditions and will be exposed to extreme temperatures, odors, dust, gases, poor ventilation and exposure to sounds. Noise levels may require shouting to be heard.
Work Environment:
Work will be performed in high traffic environments.
Will work around energies high voltage electrical equipment.
Will work in construction areas that present many physical hazards.
Will work at heights.
Will work in closed or confined spaces.
Will work around asbestos and lead.
Physical Demands:
Minimal physical effort typically found in clerical work. Primarily sedentary, may occasionally lift and carry light objects. Walking and/or standing as needed and minimal.
Light to moderate physical effort that includes frequent standing or walking or maintaining arms and hands in the same position for repetitive tasks. Frequently works with light objects and light hand tools.
Grade: S5
Minimum: $98,877
Midpoint: $123,596
At Omaha Public Power District, we're passionate about three things: power, the people who make it, and the people who rely on it.
WE ARE: Where the Light Starts. OPPD is the 12 th largest public power utility in the U.S., serving over 850,000 people across 5,000 square miles and 13 counties.
WE ARE COMMITTED TO: Each other and the people we serve. This commitment drives us. We're dedicated to providing our communities with affordable, reliable, and environmentally sensitive energy services today, tomorrow, and well into the future.
OUR JOB: To provide power with a purpose. We have real impact - on people's lives, on the environment, and on the future of energy. We're always looking for bright, capable people who want an opportunity to lead from where you are - wherever you are - and know that your ideas will be heard. If you want to be a source of real, positive change for the community and the people who live in this region, then working for a company that is acknowledged for caring about these same things is likely a priority for you as well
EOE: Protected Veterans/Disability
Apply online at www.oppd.com on or before July 3.
Recruiter: Michael Fierro - mrfierro@oppd.com
Reliability Engineer III
Position Overview
Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) delivers affordable, reliable, and environmentally responsible energy to the communities we serve. As a publicly owned utility, OPPD is committed to operational excellence, innovation, and ensuring long-term reliability across our generation fleet.
As a Reliability Engineer III, you will centralize efforts related to equipment reliability-improving maintenance strategies, creating standard work packets, developing or strengthening preventive maintenance standards, and ensuring sites have critical spare parts. You will strengthen asset performance by systematically prioritizing assets, analyzing failure modes and historical performance, building and evaluating reliability KPIs and statistical models, leading root cause investigations, identifying design or commissioning weaknesses, monitoring operational practices, reviewing and optimizing maintenance work orders, and auditing PM/CBM tasks to verify effectiveness.
You will also manage fleet-wide reliability improvement by developing and optimizing maintenance strategies, implementing corrective actions from causal analysis, directing updates to engineering standards and operating procedures, coordinating improvements with maintenance and operations teams, leading post-failure strategy changes, supporting spare-parts justification, expanding condition monitoring programs, embedding reliability principles in capital projects, supporting operator/technician training, and managing risk through structured risk registers or risk-based maintenance frameworks.
Finally, you will influence change and strengthen organizational capability by coaching teams, promoting high-reliability thinking, fostering disciplined questioning, teaching teams how to interpret system behaviors, modeling accountable leadership, driving documentation and adoption of standards, and reinforcing operational habits that sustain long-term reliability improvement.
The Impact You'll Have
- Lead operational excellence activities by advancing equipment reliability and asset management practices across assigned sites
- Conduct engineering evaluations to diagnose issues, develop technical solutions, and validate results with advanced judgment
- Prioritize and monitor asset reliability risks using data analysis, failure modes, and system performance insights
- Develop, optimize, and maintain maintenance strategies, PM/CBM programs, and standard work documentation
- Lead or support investigations for significant failures, recommend corrective actions, and drive implementation across functions
- Improve work management quality by reviewing maintenance plans, work orders, and task effectiveness
- Coach engineers, technicians, and operators to build a high-reliability culture and strengthen system-thinking capability
- Coordinate cross-discipline collaboration between engineering, operations, maintenance, and project teams to execute improvements
- Demonstrated ability to independently execute essential reliability engineering duties
- Ability to apply advanced technical judgment, perform complex analyses, and interpret system behavior
- Experience managing engineering project tasks, meeting scope and schedule requirements
- Demonstrated ability to develop or refine engineering standards, specifications, and procedures
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to lead or mentor early-career engineers, providing technical oversight and guidance
- Experience with reliability engineering, maintenance strategy development, or asset management
- Familiarity with causal analysis, root cause methodologies, and condition monitoring technologies
- Experience with CMMS systems, work order quality programs, or reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)
- Background working in power generation, industrial operations, or other asset-intensive industries
- Advanced data analysis skills, statistical modeling, or reliability KPI development
- Experience coaching teams or driving cultural change focused on reliability and operational discipline
Non-Shift Work
Time Demands:
Essential Position: This position will be required to report to work when business continuity needs are emergent and may be required to work hours beyond an employee's normal shift.
This position must be available for overtime work and callouts as required to ensure continuance of efficient operation.
This position must maintain 24-hour availability for technical and professional assistance, emergency response, and direction of remedial action in response to such emergencies, as well as maintain availability as required for on-call duty.
Work Location:
Office: Work will be performed in a modern office environment amid normal conditions of dust, odors, fumes, and noises.
Field: Work will be performed outside in a wide variety of weather conditions (snow, rain, heat, cold, wind, etc.), terrain, and other natural environmental hazards as well as pollen and other airborne allergens.
Generation Plant: Work will be performed inside with exposure to industrial building conditions and will be exposed to extreme temperatures, odors, dust, gases, poor ventilation and exposure to sounds. Noise levels may require shouting to be heard.
Work Environment:
Work will be performed in high traffic environments.
Will work around energies high voltage electrical equipment.
Will work in construction areas that present many physical hazards.
Will work at heights.
Will work in closed or confined spaces.
Will work around asbestos and lead.
Physical Demands:
Minimal physical effort typically found in clerical work. Primarily sedentary, may occasionally lift and carry light objects. Walking and/or standing as needed and minimal.
Light to moderate physical effort that includes frequent standing or walking or maintaining arms and hands in the same position for repetitive tasks. Frequently works with light objects and light hand tools.
Grade: S5
Minimum: $98,877
Midpoint: $123,596
At Omaha Public Power District, we're passionate about three things: power, the people who make it, and the people who rely on it.
WE ARE: Where the Light Starts. OPPD is the 12 th largest public power utility in the U.S., serving over 850,000 people across 5,000 square miles and 13 counties.
WE ARE COMMITTED TO: Each other and the people we serve. This commitment drives us. We're dedicated to providing our communities with affordable, reliable, and environmentally sensitive energy services today, tomorrow, and well into the future.
OUR JOB: To provide power with a purpose. We have real impact - on people's lives, on the environment, and on the future of energy. We're always looking for bright, capable people who want an opportunity to lead from where you are - wherever you are - and know that your ideas will be heard. If you want to be a source of real, positive change for the community and the people who live in this region, then working for a company that is acknowledged for caring about these same things is likely a priority for you as well
EOE: Protected Veterans/Disability
Apply online at www.oppd.com on or before July 3.
Recruiter: Michael Fierro - mrfierro@oppd.com
Salary : $98,877 - $123,596