Reliability Engineer – Sandfire Motheo

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of process plant or new asset.

• Providing technical support to other teams such as process and maintenance.
• The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans.
• Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical suppliers and technical maintenance service providers.
• Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria, participates in the final check out of new installations.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors, and refines an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes:
  • Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
  • Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problem.
• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.
• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Analyse equipment conditions and ensure corrective action are completed.
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.

Technical Competencies

• Task-oriented and outcome-focused.
• Have excellent report writing and communication and demonstrated experience delivering on time and on budget.
• Knowledge of engineering concepts such as lifecycle asset management, risk management, configuration management, and loss elimination.

Behaviours/Personal Attributes

• Critical and problem-solving skills
• Strong focus on health and safety standards and compliance
• Logical thinking
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize workloads.

Qualification & Experience

• Degree in engineering, industrial arts, equivalent trade school associate degree, or former maintenance craft background training, or equivalent
• Registered with ERB or ability to register is a prerequisite
• Entry level with five (5) to 10 years’ experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistical, mathematical, and engineering concepts
• Experience using statistical and probability methods and tools.