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Reliability Engineer Senior

Regal Rexnord · Milwaukee, WI · Full time

Posted Aug 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Walk me through a time you took vibration or condition monitoring data and turned it into a recommendation that a customer actually acted on.

What they are checking: whether the candidate can translate raw diagnostic data into a business action, not just describe technical findings

Tell me about a customer reliability review that didn't land well at first. What did you do differently the next time?

What they are checking: ability to read a room of maintenance and leadership stakeholders and adjust communication style

Tell me about a time you had to push back on a customer's maintenance team when their PM strategy wasn't matching what the asset health data was telling you.

What they are checking: conflict resolution skill and confidence acting as the trusted SME rather than deferring to the customer

Tell me about a time you noticed a customer was at risk of dropping a reliability program or reducing scope. What did you do?

What they are checking: commercial awareness and account retention instincts beyond pure engineering

Describe a situation where you had to work with a product or engineering team to get customer feedback built into a monitoring tool or platform.

What they are checking: cross-functional collaboration in a matrixed organization, since this role sits between customers and internal product teams

What would you do

A customer's predictive maintenance program is showing good diagnostic accuracy but their unplanned downtime numbers haven't moved. How do you figure out what's going wrong?

What they are checking: whether they think beyond detection accuracy to program adoption, PM execution, and organizational follow-through

You're 35 percent on the road. Describe how you manage a caseload of customers across different industries like food and beverage versus metals or mining at the same time.

What they are checking: organizational discipline and ability to context-switch across varied plant environments

If a remote monitoring sensor is flagging intermittent alarms that don't correlate with any obvious mechanical issue, what's your process for chasing that down before you tell the customer something is wrong?

What they are checking: judgment under ambiguity and discipline about not crying wolf with customers, protecting credibility as a trusted advisor

About the work

How do you approach root cause analysis on a piece of rotating machinery when the failure mode isn't obvious from the vibration signature alone?

What they are checking: depth of hands-on RCA methodology and comfort combining multiple sensing modalities, not just textbook knowledge

Explain how you'd distinguish between a bearing defect and a misalignment issue using spectral analysis.

What they are checking: real technical fluency with waveform and spectral analysis, checking the CAT II certification claim holds up in practice

How do you calculate and defend a cost avoidance number to a skeptical plant manager?

What they are checking: fluency with the ROI metrics this role is measured on and ability to make a credible business case

How would you go about building a criticality analysis for a new customer's asset base from scratch?

What they are checking: structured thinking on prioritizing assets and resources, not just running the tool

What reliability metrics do you personally track to prove a program is working, and how do you present those to people who aren't engineers?

What they are checking: command of OEE, downtime, and cost avoidance metrics plus the communication skill to translate them for non-technical audiences

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The full job description

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Work Model: This role can be performed remotely from an approved location, with flexibility based on business needs and applicable requirements. ____________________ Position Summary The Reliability Engineer – Services will deliver world-class reliability service to Perceptiv customers by consistently providing clear, actionable analysis, recommendations, and serving as a trusted reliability consultant. This role bridges technical diagnostics and operational execution, partnering with customer reliability teams and stakeholders to translate asset health insights into sustained improvements in uptime, cost avoidance, and maintenance effectiveness. They will be responsible for acting as a SME to deliver best-in-class services (reliability consulting, remote monitoring, analytics, and on-site services) to help customers improve their Maintenance & Reliability excellence practices. Responsibilities • Serve as the SME and trusted reliability consultant for Perceptiv customers through translating condition monitoring insights into measurable improvements in uptime, availability, and maintenance effectiveness • Lead customer reliability reviews, presenting trends in asset health, failure modes, and ROI to maintenance and leadership stakeholders • Drive adoption of predictive maintenance programs by aligning diagnostic insights with customer reliability goals and maintenance strategies • Use reliability methodologies (RCA, failure trend analysis, PM optimization) to convert predictive insights into sustained asset performance improvements • Ensure predictive maintenance findings are clearly communicated, lead to action, outcomes are tracked, and reliability programs deliver clear ROI • Escalate risks and gaps in program adoption or execution, driving corrective actions • Support account retention and expansion by demonstrating consistent value from reliability and condition monitoring initiatives • Identify additional opportunities to expand reliability programs or deepen adoption based on customer needs and asset performance trends • Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering teams regarding customer feedback for product development • Provide customer guidance regarding asset management and monitoring strategies Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree, Engineering discipline preferred. MS or MBA a plus • 10+ years industrial manufacturing experience; preferably with exposure to rotating machinery, remote condition monitoring, and industrial networking & controls. • 10+ years industrial reliability experience across varied industries and applications • Demonstrated expertise across sensing modalities (i.e. vibration, current, torque, etc.) and applications • Deep experience and reliability expertise across targeted industries (i.e. Food & Beverage, Intralogistics, Metals, Mining, Heavy Industry) • Strong working knowledge of plant operations, industrial machinery and maintenance best practices. • Experience with analog signal processing (trending, waveform and spectral analysis) and/or Criticality Analysis preferred • Experience building analytical tools to support automation of appropriate reliability reports to support improving efficiency and effectiveness of Reliability Engineering Team • Strong customer facing skills with a focus on customer service, voice-of-customer, conflict resolution, and negotiation • Experience and strong knowledge of key industrial reliability related metrics, including cost avoidance, unplanned downtime, OEE, etc. • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) a plus • Certified Vibration Analyst CAT II required, higher certification a plus • Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills – both verbal and written • Excellent collaborator who can effectively function in a matrix and team environment • Strong analytical stills • Travel: 35% Benefits • Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage • Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA) • Paid Time Off and Holidays • 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions • Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance • Paid Leaves • Tuition Assistance About Regal Rexnord Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools. The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture. Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters Notification to Agencies : Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.

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