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Reliability Engineer Specialist

Pantex Plant
Amarillo, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/27/2026
Location: Amarillo, TX

Job Title: Reliability Engineer Specialist

Career Level: Specialist

Organization: Condition Based Maintenance (51421735)

Job Specialty: Core Engineering

What You'll Do

Responsibilities

Reliability Engineer (RE) provides a strategic support interface between Production, Engineering, Projects, and the Maintenance Organizations by providing recommendations and technical expertise to enhance equipment design, reliability, and maintainability. The RE has a critical role in optimizing asset management processes through utilization of proactive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime, failure rates and maximize equipment reliability. The RE is responsible for but not limited to:

  • Defines and provides implementation support for recommendations that ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
  • Provides reliability based technical support to Production, Operations, Infrastructure Management and Craft personnel.
  • Gathers, reviews, and analyzes data concerning facility or equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) specifications.
  • Review technical documents that depict or define reliability, accessibility, maintainability or inspectability features of systems, equipment and facilities including, technical basis documentation, manuals and data-sheets.
  • Lead role in integration of project and plant RAMI deliverables.
  • Development of proactive maintenance strategies for the facility for structures, systems and components.
  • Equipment Fault Identification.
  • Trend Analysis of structures, systems, and components.
  • Defines, develops, implements, revises, and monitors Asset Management Plan(s) for structures, systems and components.
  • Effective deployment of condition based, predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems before failure occurrence.
  • Completion and presentation of both RAMI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses to internal and external engineering partners. Analysis to include labor distributions, critical spares identification, proactive asset management plans, failure rates, Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and life-cycle cost analysis.

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering/science discipline with a minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
  • OR a Master's degree in engineering/science discipline with a minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
  • OR a PhD degree in engineering/science discipline.

Department of Energy (DOE) Order 426.2A Requirements

The applicant must meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2 (i.e., Baccalaureate in engineering or related science, 2 years job-related and at least 1 year nuclear experience, or a DOE O 426.2 alternative). DOE 426.2 experience requirements can be satisfied following employment. In the interim, newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities (Ref. DOE O 426.2)

Preferred Job Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering or a related field from an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program in the United States or designated equivalents thru ABET Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRA).
  • There is a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) requirement up to 4 years post-graduation at time of offer and confirmed by transcript. Beyond four years from graduation, engineering experience will supersede GPA as a requirement for hire.
    • 3.0/4.0 minimum cumulative GPA for Bachelor degree.
    • 3.3/4.0 minimum cumulative GPA for Master degree.
    • 3.5/4.0 minimum cumulative GPA for PhD.


  • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
  • Ability to work independently as well as work within a team environment and promote collaboration.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Interact with organizations across the Enterprise.
  • Present information clearly and effectively through the oral and written communication.
  • Ability to resolve complex issues, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.

#JointheMission: Your Impact Starts Here

At Pantex, you won't just find a job—you’ll discover a career of purpose safeguarding national security through work performed nowhere else on Earth. We empower dedicated, innovative individuals like you to achieve their greatest impact surrounded by exceptional talent and limitless opportunities for professional growth.

When you #JointheMission, you choose a lifetime career where your commitment is genuinely valued and rewarded. At Pantex, we believe that extraordinary talent thrives when supported by a balanced life. Discover the flexibility that empowers you to excel, coupled with a benefits package designed for your total peace of mind from comprehensive health coverage and robust retirement planning, to opportunities for continuous learning through education reimbursement.

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10 CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.

Pantex is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to random selection for drug testing without advance notification.

Pantex is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.

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