Reliability Expert

The Reliability Expert will support manufacturing operations across the Americas by driving equipment reliability, maintenance excellence, and asset performance improvement across multiple sites. This role will work closely with maintenance, operations, engineering, and plant leadership to identify reliability losses, reduce downtime, improve preventive and predictive maintenance practices, and build sustainable reliability systems. The position requires strong technical knowledge, hands-on manufacturing experience, and the ability to translate equipment performance data into practical actions that improve uptime, safety, cost, and operational performance.

Position: Reliability Expert

Workplace: México

Main activities:

• Lead regional reliability improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, equipment failures, maintenance cost, and production losses.
• Analyze equipment performance, failure history, maintenance data, and production losses to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and improve preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, lubrication, inspection, and condition monitoring programs.
• Facilitate root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, bad actor reviews, and corrective action plans for critical equipment issues.
• Support maintenance planning and scheduling practices to improve work execution, backlog management, and maintenance productivity.
• Partner with operations and maintenance teams across Americas sites to improve equipment ownership, operator care, basic equipment conditions, and reliability culture.
• Track reliability KPIs such as downtime, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, schedule compliance, maintenance cost, and asset performance trends.
• Provide remote and on-site support to Americas manufacturing sites, sharing best practices, standardizing reliability processes, and supporting cross-site capability building.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong manufacturing maintenance and reliability experience, preferably in chemical, industrial, at least 10 years of experience..
• Solid knowledge of reliability tools and methods, including RCA, FMEA, PM optimization, condition monitoring, and bad actor elimination.
• Experience with CMMS systems such as SAP PM, Maximo, or similar platforms for maintenance planning, work order management, and reliability reporting.
• Fluent in Spanish and in English.

About Solenis

We are a chemical company that every day aims to solve complex challenges in water treatment, process improvement, and hygiene for customers in the consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets, through people, expertise, and technology.

We are global leaders in the production and application of chemical specialties, focused on providing sustainable solutions for sectors with high water use, including the consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets.

Our mission is to be a partner and add value by solving operational and sustainability challenges with the right people, the right expertise, and the right technology, with solutions that help preserve natural resources and promote cleaner and safer environments.

We reiterate that everyone is welcome, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other characteristic. The selected candidate should have an exemplary work ethic and high standards of integrity.

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Why work here?

At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation; comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance and a 401(k) plan; and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, whether in the lab or in the field, consider joining our team.

Solenis is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

About Us

Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 78 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over ~23000 professionals in >160 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree.

For additional information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com or follow us on social media.