Maintenance Reliability Specialist – Predictive Technologies

Advance reliability. Elevate performance. Grow your career.

Join ATS as the go-to specialist turning data and discipline into uptime. If you thrive on precision, collaboration, and measurable results, you’ll fit right in.

Why this role matters

• Set the tone on safety by living ATS’s safety culture and meeting all regulatory and policy requirements.
• Engineer improvements with internal and external customers to increase reliability and throughput.
• Target replacement candidates, prepare capital recommendations, and quantify ROI.
• Embed precision reliability practices using deep systems knowledge and proven methods.
• Apply precision tools and techniques that raise maintenance quality.
• Develop ESMPs through reliability-centered maintenance alongside peers.
• Drive predictive, preventive, and precision maintenance strategies with the maintenance team to control risk before failure and optimize execution.
• Lead and contribute to FMEA efforts to prioritize action.
• Use WEM and implement enhancements identified in reliability strategy sessions.
• Execute ATS Root Cause, Bad Actor, and Fault Tree analyses to remove chronic loss.
• Align ATS/Customer KPIs through clear communication with leadership.

Must-have qualifications (Essential KSAs)

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or equivalent experience in heavy industrial maintenance, reliability, or operations.
• At least 1 year in a reliability function.
• Hands-on skill with reliability toolsets.
• Experience performing RCA.
• Background with RCM and FMEA.
• Master-level capability with predictive technologies.
• Vibration I Certification.
• Intermediate ability in machine health monitoring.
• Experience with Work Execution Management.
• Technical literacy in electrical or mechanical components, tools, and design.
• Ability to partner on FMEA, cause-and-effect diagrams, root cause failure analysis, life-cycle costing, and risk analysis.
• Curiosity and competence in researching/applying new equipment technologies and trends.
• Strong analytical, mathematical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Fluency with computers, maintenance systems, and Microsoft Office.
• Intermediate verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Clear reporting and technical writing.
• Relationship-building aptitude.

Nice-to-have experience (Desirable KSAs)

• Ambition to step into leadership.
• Exposure to trend analysis, vibration analysis, motor current analysis, oil analysis, lubrication and hydraulic testing, laser alignment, NDT, infrared thermography, ultrasound, acoustic reliability, Weibull analysis, and Lean/Six Sigma.
• Working knowledge of cGMP, NETA, EPA, and OSHA.
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional teams.
• Infrared I, Ultrasound I, and Maintenance Lubrication Analyst I Certifications.
• CMRP/ARP/CRP/CRL certifications.
• Green Belt certification.
• STS certification.

The strengths you’ll use (Competencies)

• Drive and motivation
• Interpersonal skills
• Task management
• Strategic skills
• Customer focus
• Self-awareness
• Management and leadership

What to expect physically (Work environment)

• Frequent standing, walking, fine hand work, reaching, climbing/balancing; at times stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; regular speaking and hearing.
• Occasional sitting.
• Ability to occasionally lift/move items over 50 lbs.
• Regular need for close and color vision.
• Possible intermittent exposure to outdoor weather and risk of electrical shock.
• Loud factory environment; potential exposure to hazardous materials and greasy/slippery floors.