Maintenance Methods & Reliability Engineer (M/F)

Maintenance Methods & Reliability Engineer (M/F)

• Reference: 262360S

• Start Date: as soon as possible

• Duration: 6 months renewable

• Contract Type: Freelance or CDIC

• Geographical Area: Rhône (69)

• Possible Travel: 100% on-site

Mission Context

As part of strengthening the performance of maintenance activities for an industrial process site, we are looking for a Maintenance Methods & Reliability Engineer to support the Technical Services teams in improving equipment reliability, optimizing maintenance strategies, and managing continuous improvement projects.

Initially, the contractor will join a Task Force aimed at strengthening the reliability of industrial installations by the end of 2026, particularly by ensuring alignment between critical equipment and critical spare parts.

The expected benefits are the reduction of production downtime, improvement of equipment reliability, optimization of inventory, and better quality of SAP data.

Secondly, the assignment will focus on more general installation reliability topics.

The contractor will be functionally reporting to the Medium and Long-Term Maintenance Manager.

Missions

• Review and validate equipment criticality according to A/B/C classification.

• Verify data quality in SAP PM, particularly functional hierarchies and Bills of Materials, and ensure their update.

• Associate each critical equipment with its spare parts in SAP.

• Analyze inventory to identify risks related to the unavailability of strategic components.

• Review and optimize inventory management parameters: safety stock, reorder point, and replenishment.

• Update existing KPIs to measure critical asset coverage, data quality, and strategic part availability.

• Analyze recurring failures and losses by identifying root causes (RCA) and defining associated action plans.

• Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.

• Participate in or lead FMEA analyses and criticality studies.

• Conduct reviews of equipment and associated spare parts.

• Perform Pareto analysis of costs and OEE.

• Implement and track performance indicators (KPIs).

• Participate in or lead focused improvements aimed at increasing installation reliability and availability.

• Update lubrication plans.

• Manage various reliability topics until their complete implementation.

• Engineering degree in general engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial maintenance, or equivalent.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in industrial maintenance, methods, or reliability.

• Significant experience in an industrial process environment.

• Proficiency in industrial equipment reliability issues.

• Proficiency in root cause analysis (RCA).

• Proficiency in FMEA/AMDEC methodologies.

• Skills in preventive and predictive maintenance.

• Skills in maintenance data analysis.

• Ability to build and track performance indicators.

• Skills in spare parts management.

• Knowledge of SAP, particularly maintenance data.

• Ability to exploit data from condition monitoring systems.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Autonomy.

• Analytical and synthesis skills.

• Rigor and organizational skills.

• Results-oriented.

• Ability to integrate quickly into a team.

• Ability to lead assigned tasks to completion.

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