Engineer, Reliability

Reliability Engineer

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

At Lonza AG, we are proud to offer an outstanding opportunity for a Reliability Engineer in our Greenwood, SC manufacturing facility! This role plays a pivotal role in maintaining the detailed operation of our facilities and production equipment, ensuring we continue to deliver premier products. We are looking for an ambitious individual who is determined to successfully implement reliability and energy savings targets, and work collaboratively to achieve our goals. If you are passionate about process improvement and technical projects, this role is tailor-made for you.

• Conceive, support, and implement improvement projects and capital projects that apply internal or external resources to enhance productivity, reliability, cost, safety, efficiency, or management direction.
• Understand and analyze technical data and apply statistical process control.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and business issues.
• Coordinate mechanical activities and resources as needed.
• Build, maintain, and modify technical documents, including work instructions.
• Prepare equipment performance reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, and generate documents and graphs in MFG applications.
• Confirm system and component capabilities by developing testing methods.
• Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations, including EHS and electrical codes.
• Maintain mechanical and electrical maintenance and calibration programs through the use of the CMMS and other control systems.
• Drive cost improvements through reliability enhancements.
• Provide technical support to other departments.
• Perform projects to meet organizational needs and initiate improvements within and between departments.
• Support troubleshooting during critical problems by telephone or on-site after-hours support.

• BS degree in Engineering, preferably mechanical or electrical, or equivalent experience, with at least 3 years of engineering experience in a pharmaceutical environment or closely related industry.
• Indirect supervisory experience.
• Experience in process control and troubleshooting.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and prioritize organizational needs.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Ability to make decisions under time constraints.
• Intermediate proficiency with computers.
• Ability to implement self-initiated improvement projects to achieve goals.
• Public speaking and presentation experience.
• Preferred experience with SQC (statistical quality control) and DOE (design of experiment).
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred.
• Experience handling customer issues.
• Ability to analyze data via basic statistics.
• Experience in establishing reliability-centered maintenance plans preferred.
• Familiarity with UL, NEC, NFPA, and other national standards preferred.
• Experience with building and automation systems and maintenance management systems.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.