Reliability Maintenance Engineer

Role Overview

• Reporting to the Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent, the Reliability Maintenance Engineer is the technical authority for equipment reliability across the mill, leading the development and execution of reliability-centered maintenance strategies that shift the organization from reactive to proactive asset management.
• The Reliability Maintenance Engineer owns the predictive maintenance program, leads root cause failure analysis, develops condition monitoring strategies for critical assets, and provides the data-driven insights that guide maintenance investment decisions.
• The successful candidate will work at the intersection of engineering analysis, field-level diagnostics, and maintenance planning to drive measurable improvements in equipment availability and total cost of ownership.

Requirements

• Predictive maintenance program ownership: Develop, implement, and continuously improve condition monitoring programs including vibration analysis, oil analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasound, and motor current analysis across all critical and semi-critical rotating and electrical equipment.
• Preventive maintenance optimization: Analyze equipment failure data, PM task effectiveness, and condition monitoring trends to optimize PM intervals and task content.
• Technology evaluation and integration: Assess emerging reliability technologies and recommend adoption where cost-benefit analysis supports implementation.
• Lead pilot programs for new condition monitoring tools and techniques.
• Establish and maintain equipment condition baselines for A-critical and B-critical assets, with defined alarm and action thresholds for all monitored parameters.
• Develop and maintain PdM route schedules, ensuring coverage aligns with asset criticality rankings.
• Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE): Lead formal root cause failure analysis investigations for significant equipment failures, chronic repeaters, and production loss events.
• Facilitate cross-functional investigation teams and drive corrective actions to completion.
• Failure data analysis: Analyze equipment failure history, maintenance cost trends, and production delay data to identify patterns, prioritize improvement initiatives, and quantify the business case for reliability investments.
• Develop and maintain a loss elimination tracking system that connects failure events to corrective actions, completion status, and validated results.
• Provide technical input to Loss of Production Reports (LOPRs) as required.
• Equipment criticality assessments: Lead or participate in asset criticality ranking exercises to ensure maintenance resources are allocated proportionally to equipment importance.
• Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM): Apply RCM methodology to develop and refine maintenance strategies for critical equipment, ensuring the right balance of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance tasks.
• Precision maintenance standards: Champion precision maintenance practices including shaft alignment, balancing, bearing installation, lubrication management, and fastener torque specifications.
• Audit compliance and coach trades on precision standards.
• Evaluate repair vs. replace vs. upgrade options for aging or underperforming assets, providing engineering analysis and lifecycle cost comparisons to support capital and major maintenance decisions.
• Provide engineering support for equipment failures and operational events.

Benefits

• Domtar is firmly committed to placing greater emphasis on the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion to empower all employees to reach their full potential.
• We offer an inclusive, rewarding and safe work environment with opportunities that will help grow your skills.