Reliability Engineer

Job overview

The Reliability Engineer role is onsite in Nashville, TN; compensation is not specified. August Bioservices provides drug discovery, formulation, and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, supporting development of potential therapies. The engineer owns equipment performance, operational risk, and sustainable improvement across manufacturing equipment, process-support systems, and selected facility assets. The role turns recurring failures and performance losses into measurable improvements through root cause analysis, reliability strategies, and verified corrective actions, partnering across engineering, maintenance, operations, quality, and other teams.

What you'll do

• Develop reliability strategies for critical assets
• establish performance baselines and monitor reliability and downtime metrics
• maintain criticality assessments and improvement backlogs
• lead structured root cause analyses
• define corrective actions and effectiveness criteria
• support investigations, deviations, CAPAs, and quality or safety events
• develop equipment modifications and improvement scopes
• optimize preventive maintenance and condition monitoring
• analyze operational data and report trends
• support change control, validation, commissioning, documentation, and training processes.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

reliability engineer

nashville tn

august bioservices

pharmaceutical manufacturing

root cause analysis

asset reliability

equipment performance

preventive maintenance

condition monitoring

capa

cgmp

continuous improvement

engineering

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The role focuses on eliminating systemic causes rather than day-to-day equipment setup or primary coordination during emergency breakdowns; requires a bachelor’s degree in an engineering or related technical discipline.

About the employer

August Bioservices is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.