Reliability Engineer

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Job Title: Reliability Engineer
Location: Hamburg, International/Other

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Engineering
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Position Purpose:

To improve asset reliability, availability, and lifecycle cost by applying reliability engineering principles, failure analysis, and data-driven maintenance strategies.

The role focuses on eliminating recurring failures, improving maintenance effectiveness, and embedding reliability into new equipment and capital projects

Key Responsibilities

1. Reliability & Loss Elimination

• Identify and prioritize equipment bad actors using CMMS and reliability KPIs.

• Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for major and repetitive failures.

• Apply Zero Loss / Defect Elimination methodologies to reduce downtime and cost.

• Define and follow up corrective and preventive actions.

2. Data Analysis & Maintenance Strategy

• Analyze failure data, trends, and operating conditions impacting equipment performance.

• Improve and optimize PM/PdM strategies based on reliability findings.

• Ensure data quality in CMMS (failure modes, causes, actions).

• Track and report reliability performance (MTBF, MTTR, availability).

3. Capital Projects & Equipment Lifecycle

• Support capital projects to ensure reliability and maintainability are built into design.

• Participate in design reviews, commissioning, and handover to operations.

• Ensure critical spares, documentation, and maintenance strategies are defined.

4. Coaching & Collaboration

• Coach site teams on RCFA, reliability fundamentals, and proactive maintenance.

• Provide technical reliability support to Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering.

• Promote a structured, fact-based reliability culture.

5. Safety & Compliance

• Perform all duties in compliance with safety, food safety, quality, and legal requirements.

• Support investigations where equipment reliability impacts safety or quality.

Required Qualifications:

• Engineering degree or equivalent industrial experience.

• 3+ years in maintenance, reliability, or asset management roles.

• Strong experience with failure analysis and maintenance strategies.

• Proficient in CMMS (Maximo preferred).

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to turn analysis into practical actions.

• Effective communicator and influencer.

• Structured, disciplined, and improvement-oriented mindset.

Languages:

• German (mandatory).

• Professional English.

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Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are cornerstones of ADM's efforts to continue innovating, driving growth, and delivering outstanding performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and create welcoming, truly inclusive work environments - environments that enable every ADM colleague to feel comfortable on the job, make meaningful contributions to our success, and grow their career. We respect and value the unique backgrounds and experiences that each person can bring to ADM because we know that diversity of perspectives makes us better, together.

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Job Post Date: 07/11/26