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Engineer, Reliability Programs

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Full-time, Regular
Posted Aug 26, 2025
Onsite

About the role

As a member of the Reliability Programs team, the Reliability Engineer supports their assigned Fleet Engineering team and reports directly to the manager of Reliability Programs. In this role, the Reliability Engineer acts as a key control for Delta’s Continuing Analysis and Surveillance System (CASS) to comply with 14 CFR 121.373.

Responsibilities

  • Perform daily, weekly, and monthly surveillance of mechanical reliability trends to identify significant deficiencies or emerging reliability issues
  • Evaluate and monitor effectiveness of existing fleet maintenance strategies and recommend areas for improvement
  • Apply Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process to analyze top reliability drivers
  • Facilitate reliability reviews among a team of aircraft system experts and help them to link operational functional failures with their associated failure modes
  • Assess patterns and consequences of failure for each failure mode to derive are commended maintenance strategy to preserve system level function
  • Own and maintain an on-going centralized fleet-based library to capture the outputs for each RCM reliability review
  • Experience using Relia Soft or similar statistical distribution software to perform Life Data Analysis (LDA) to determine failure distributions of component populations
  • Track and monitor effectiveness of implemented solutions, or changes in maintenance strategy
  • Routinely provide updates to the fleet leadership team
  • Champion adoption of predictive-alert based Condition-Based Monitoring (CBM+) opportunities for maintaining reliability of aircraft systems
  • May oversee responsibilities and task assignments of Reliability Specialist
  • Review and establish new processes and documents related TOPP or SOP
  • May be responsible for preparing and presenting presentations to all levels of management as well as regulatory agencies
  • Practices safety-conscious behaviors in all operational processes and procedures
  • Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
  • Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do
  • At Delta, our people are our success
  • At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees
  • Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way
  • Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
  • 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
  • New hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
  • 10 paid holidays per calendar year
  • Birthing parents are eligible for 12 weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
  • Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
  • Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
  • Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health
  • Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
  • Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
  • World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
  • Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
  • Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
  • Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics, analytics, or computer science with at least 5 years of relevant aviation experience
  • Experience using Relia Soft or similar statistical distribution software to perform failure distribution Life Data Analysis (LDA)
  • Ability to establish goals and lead a team with minimal direction
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office software products
  • Ability to influence and work effectively with a variety of people, both internally and externally
  • Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) preferred
  • Aviation or similar heavy industry experience with proactive asset failure management preferred
  • Experience using data analysis tools/languages such as Python, and SQL preferred

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Industry-leading profit sharing program
  • Performance incentives
  • 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
  • 10 paid holidays per calendar year
  • Birthing parents eligible for 12 weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
  • Non-birthing parents eligible for 2 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
  • Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
  • Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health
  • Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
  • Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
  • World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
  • Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
  • Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
  • Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks

About the Company

Delta Air Lines, Inc. is committed to providing Employees with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. The company promises to provide Employees with a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth.

Job Details

Salary Range

$122,200 - $135,800/yearly

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Employment Type

Full-time, Regular

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