Reliability Engineer - Evergy Company : Job Details

JOB TITLE: Reliability Engineer REQUISITION: FOS00FN DEPARTMENT: Generation – Reliability Engineering – La Cygne Generating Station LOCATION: La Cygne, KS PAY RANGE: Engineer I: $66,300 - $82,900 - $99,500 Engineer II: $81,000 - $101,200 - $121,400 Staff Engineer: $90,500 - $113,100 - $135,700 Sr Engineer: $91,600 - $122,100 - $152,600 Lead Engineer: $107,900 - $143,800 - $179,800 Principal Engineer: $112,500 - $150,000 - $187,500

Scheduled Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Other hours as required)

Summary of Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

The Reliability Engineer implements and facilitates reliability principals / processes, provides direction and technical expertise required to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, useful life of assets at the lowest life cycle cost. The Reliability Engineer develops studies, plans, criteria, evaluations, performance assessments, cost estimates and budgets. Provides consultation and recommendations to the Company and to other business units.

Position Responsibility and Duties:

The candidate for this position will:

• Provide technical consultation services in the areas of reliability, work and materials management, and business administration.
• Assist in financial justification of equipment reliability upgrades and improvements using return on investment tools such as Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and risk analysis.
• Facilitate the implementation of RCM methods with collaboration between the energy centers in the fleet.
• Perform reliability studies to analyze and identify specific areas or equipment needing improvement.
• Actively participate in the maintenance teams.
• Develop and implement changes to equipment maintenance plans based on reliability principles and EPRI best practices.
• Advise on, provide training for, and implement changes in computerized work management system methods and practices.
• Provide technical consultation services in the areas of reliability, work and materials management, and business administration.
• Perform studies on equipment and process failures and present details of the analysis, in report format, to plant management.
• Facilitate regular update meetings with plant management using PowerBI reporting.
• Follow company safety and health guidelines and other company policies.
• Perform other work as assigned.