Reliability & Maintainability Engineer
Job No: 503940
Work Type: Staff Full Time (1500 hours or greater)
Location: Dayton, OH
Category: Research Institute Staff
Department: Advanced Product & Sys Eng - 250615
Pay Grade: R2/R3 - Exempt
Advertised: October 06, 2026
Applications close:
Position Summary:
This position will provide support on-site at the Government facility. The R&M Engineer will provide comprehensive, classical R&M engineering support to include R&M analysis, data analytics, program and home office engineering support, capturing standard processes, and implementing best practices. Additionally, the R&M Engineer will provide R&M engineering subject matter expert support in the areas of product support engineering and logistics engineering, and will be responsible for updating standard documents such as MIL Handbooks with modern/current methods and information. The R&M engineer will apply both classical R&M, product support, and logistics engineering, provide training and teach R&M and support engineering techniques and methodologies to others, use and apply R&M and support engineering software for analysis, and develop software code for data analytics. The R&M engineer will provide the Air Force all necessary tools required to complete EZP R&M and Product Support Engineering mission. Duties will also include teaching, training, guiding, and supporting a broad experience-level R&M engineer workforce across AFLCMC, preparing training materials and delivering courses in areas of reliability engineering to small and large groups, providing R&M engineering technical support to AFLCMC Home and Program Office, and conducting large data analytical analyses.
Minimum Qualifications:
R2 Level Qualifications:
* Bachelor Science Degree mechanical, electrical or another engineering discipline.
* 5+ years of experience working in an engineering/technical capacity.
* 3+ years of R&M experience.
* Experience in operation and maintenance data and respective environments that impact the performance of systems.
* Knowledge of reliability theories, principles, practices, statistical methods, and techniques.
* Knowledge of large data analytical analysis how it may be effectively employed.
* Effective written and verbal communication skills.
* Self Starter and ability to work under minimal supervision.
* Able to obtain and maintain DoD security Clearance.
* Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. citizen.
R3 Level must meet all minimum qualifications above in addition to having over 10 years of experience in an engineering capacity.
Preferred Qualifications:
While not everyone may possess all of the preferred qualifications, the ideal candidate will bring many of the following:
* Master's Degree in an engineering discipline, statistics or equivalent.
* Combined 8+ years of engineering and R&M experience.
* Knowledge of R&M Engineering in Design [RAM-C preparation; R&M contract language; Creation and verification of system R&M specification and requirements; R&M trades for balanced requirements solutions; R&M Program Plans; Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) theory; Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA); Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD); Fault tree analysis (FTA); Reliability Allocation and Prediction generation/modeling; reliability electronic/mechanical component de-rating; Maintenance Task Analysis; perform reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)].
* Knowledge of R&M Testing [R&M test plans; Reliability Growth Planning and Tracking; Joint Reliability & Maintainability Evaluation Teams (JRMET); creation of failure definitions and scoring criteria; HALT/HASS testing; Maintainability Demonstrations (MDEMOs); Built-In-Test Demonstrations.].
* Knowledge of R&M Analysis [Performing maintenance data collection and analysis using REMIS or other AF data sources; Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (FRACAS) process; reliability verification plans; identification of reliability degraders; preventive maintenance analysis; Weibull analysis; data analytics; VBA coding in Excel; large data analysis in database tool suites.].
Special Instructions to Applicants:
To apply please submit a cover letter addressing each minimum qualification and any applicable preferred qualifications that you meet.
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