About this role
Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately 13,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2025 revenue of approximately $8.8 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.
- For more information, visit www.eastman.com . Responsibilities As a Reliability Engineer in PMD Intermediates at Eastman, you’ll support efforts in our manufacturing plants to improve process and equipment reliability.
- You will be assigned to a specific area of the plant and work with Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations to identify, prioritize, and execute improvement opportunities and to achieve reliability, failure elimination, and cost reduction goals.
- Partner closely with area operations to improve equipment availability and process reliability, reducing unplanned production losses
- Lead projects that provide engineered solutions to complex problems that increase equipment and process reliability
- Partner with area maintenance to target reliability issues, reduce cost, and improve productivity
- Identify and prioritize opportunities for reliability improvements by mining information from SAP, reliability systems, and production logs
- Provide support for plant outages and shutdowns as requested
- Understand and utilize Lean Six Sigma tools for problem solving and risk elimination
- Lead and manage Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations
- Manage FMEA analyses on critical production assets as requested
- Provide reliability input to capital projects as requested
- Provide technical leadership at all levels of the plant organization with special emphasis on interfacing with maintenance crews
- Guide problem solving teams to identify, design and implement improvements
- Work safely and promote the Eastman safety vision
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 ranking required.
- Previous engineering experience in a chemical, petrochemical or related environment is required .2+ years experience required.
- Strong basic engineering skills, with the desire to learn reliability engineering principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies
- Experience managing and updating asset care strategies on equipment including preventive and predictive maintenance plans
- Knowledge of common process equipment (pumps, fans, agitators, motors, valves, instrumentation etc.) Eastman is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a highly engaged workforce, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.