Reliability Engineer Jobs in North Carolina
Reliability Engineer jobs in North Carolina are consistently active, with demand concentrated in aerospace and defense, advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and electric utilities, from entry-level positions through senior principal roles. The largest hiring markets are the Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill), Charlotte, and Greensboro, where employers like Honeywell, ABB, and Duke Energy maintain significant engineering operations. The most in-demand specializations include predictive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, and failure mode and effects analysis. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Define the maintenance strategy for the new technologies within the Kinston Plant
- Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Kinston Plant
- Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
- Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
- Manage effective asset performance measurement.
- Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
- Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
- Develop and deploy the maintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.
Main Activities
- Ensure 'best in class' safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.
- Maintain a 'safety first' culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a 'champion for safety'.
- Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies.
- Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
- Maintain compliance with procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (FU.IN.07), Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape.
- Support in developing, deploying and maintaining the Maintenance Plan for all assets in scope.
- Lead Total Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget.
- Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
- Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
- Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
- Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
- Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability.
- Project manage simple, low cost refurbishment projects.
- Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
- Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
- Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices.
- Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability.
- Maintain the standard of Asset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
- Working with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services.
- Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans. Lead technical problem solving and lessons learned activity. Embed and maintain a culture of structured root cause analysis to minimize the re-occurrence of breakdowns.
- Deploy maintenance tools and methodologies to maximize reliability (e.g. Condition Based Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Autonomous Maintenance).
- Be the champion for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Contribute actively to the overall management of the Industrial Maintenance business.
Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Define the maintenance strategy for the new technologies within the Kinston Plant
- Create a spare parts strategy for our most critical assets within the Kinston Plant
- Protect the safety of maintenance personnel and asset users.
- Support in deploying maintenance strategies and tactics to deliver cost effective asset safety and reliability aligned to customer needs.
- Manage effective asset performance measurement.
- Support engagement through involvement, improvement, communication and development within the Industrial Maintenance team.
- Provide effective communications with customers and key stakeholders.
- Develop and deploy the maintenance plan for new and existing asset introduction.
Main Activities
- Ensure 'best in class' safety systems and legislative compliance are realized and fundamental to all plans.
- Maintain a 'safety first' culture in the maintenance engineering team and be a 'champion for safety'.
- Provide safe assets through proactive maintenance and adoption of latest, suitable best practice technologies.
- Contribute to the management of change utilizing the best available and appropriate technology whilst ensuring legislative compliance.
- Maintain compliance with procedures and practices e.g. Maintenance Procedure (FU.IN.07), Operating System, Ethics and Compliance and Shape.
- Support in developing, deploying and maintaining the Maintenance Plan for all assets in scope.
- Lead Total Cost of Ownership at the earliest stage of asset change or acquisition to provide sufficient maintenance budget.
- Support cost savings through employee engagement and technical input into improvement ideas.
- Develop cost of maintenance reduction projects balanced with asset reliability and safety.
- Prepare business cases to support improvement projects and risk reduction projects.
- Develop and produce effective and timely asset performance metrics.
- Develop tailored improvement plans for each asset group to deliver improved reliability and availability.
- Project manage simple, low cost refurbishment projects.
- Provide technical maintenance support for large refurbishment projects, asset acquisition projects and asset change projects.
- Seek technological improvements to transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance provision.
- Contribute to the development of robust predictive instruments and proactive maintenance practices.
- Support management component obsolescence to ensure asset availability.
- Maintain the standard of Asset Care Plans including criticality and risk identification.
- Working with the commercial team, supporting the technical aspects of contracted maintenance services.
- Support significant and or complex asset recovery plans. Lead technical problem solving and lessons learned activity. Embed and maintain a culture of structured root cause analysis to minimize the re-occurrence of breakdowns.
- Deploy maintenance tools and methodologies to maximize reliability (e.g. Condition Based Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Autonomous Maintenance).
- Be the champion for Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Contribute actively to the overall management of the Industrial Maintenance business.
Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
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- Technology & Software
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What North Carolina Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in reliability engineer jobs across North Carolina.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering from an accredited program
- Hands-on experience with CMMS platforms such as Maximo, SAP PM, or equivalent systems
- Proficiency in reliability methodologies including FMEA, RCM, and root cause analysis
- Certified Reliability Engineer credential from the American Society for Quality preferred or required
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance technologies including vibration analysis and thermography
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional reporting and documentation
Reliability Engineer Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a reliability engineer in North Carolina?
Most reliability engineers in North Carolina enter through a bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering, then build experience in manufacturing, utilities, or defense. No state-issued engineering license is required specifically for reliability roles, though a Professional Engineer license issued through the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors can strengthen your candidacy for senior or consulting positions. The Certified Reliability Engineer credential from the American Society for Quality is the industry-standard qualification North Carolina employers consistently favor.
Which companies hire reliability engineers in North Carolina?
Employers hiring reliability engineers in North Carolina right now include The Hartford, CAI, and Qlik, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. North Carolina's mix of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the Research Triangle, aerospace suppliers in the Triad, and large utilities like Duke Energy creates a broad base of employers with ongoing reliability engineering needs.
Which North Carolina cities have the most reliability engineer jobs?
Charlotte, Raleigh, and King account for the most reliability engineer openings in North Carolina. The Research Triangle draws the largest share because of its concentration of pharmaceutical plants, semiconductor facilities, and defense contractors, while Charlotte's energy sector anchors Duke Energy's engineering workforce and Greensboro and High Point support a dense cluster of aerospace and industrial manufacturing employers.
Are there remote reliability engineer jobs in North Carolina?
Yes, but they're rare. About 75% of reliability engineer openings tied to North Carolina are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, which reflects the hands-on nature of most reliability work. The roles most likely to offer remote flexibility are those focused on data analysis, CMMS administration, and reliability program development rather than on-site equipment inspection or condition monitoring.
How can I get hired as a reliability engineer in North Carolina with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a maintenance engineer or reliability technician role at one of North Carolina's large manufacturing or utility employers, where you can build hands-on CMMS and predictive maintenance experience. Honeywell and ABB both recruit engineering graduates into associate or rotational programs at their North Carolina facilities. Completing the Certified Reliability Engineer exam through the American Society for Quality, even before you have extensive experience, signals commitment and gives you a measurable edge over candidates relying on experience alone.
Where can I find and apply to reliability engineer jobs in North Carolina?
You can find and apply to reliability engineer jobs in North Carolina on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the state. Search the listings for roles that match your experience level and specialty, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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