Area Reliability Engineer at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Reporting to Reliability Lead in Reliability & Maintenance Department, supports cross-functional Area Business Team as key point of contact informing all Reliability issues for that Area.  Coordinate, Facilitate and Advise key stakeholders in other maintenance disciplines, Operations and Technical Service to deliver seamless Plant support and enabling reliability strategies at the Cape Town Refinery.

• Accountable for driving activities required to deliver longer-term Refinery Process Plants reliability and cost objectives.
• Acts as Business Team “conscience” so that reliability decisions are made consistent with long-term stable and cost-effective performance.
• Drive longer-term equipment availability and cost management through development of the Annual Maintenance Plan (including Turnaround work lists)
• Manage long-term reliability and availability for the Refinery Process Plant.
• Drive financial  vulnerability risk manager for Process Plant.
• Oversee competency and training plans for Process Plant support team.
• Drive reliability improvement at lowest life cycle cost through the effective development and implementation of Equipment Strategies..
• Support Refinery Process Plants with reliability studies i.e. bad actor improvement process, RCA, RCM, Criticality Analysis, IPR (Intensive Process Review), ROI (Reliability Opportunity Identification), MTBF, MTBR.
• Coordinate reliability analysis and reliability improvement segment of Process Plant's Tactical Plan.
• Reviewing existing Process Plant Asset Strategies.
• Lead Annual Maintenance Plan  / Long term Reliability Plan development & quality.
• Manage discovered work and out-of-program risks.
• Custodian of Process Plant maintenance budget, leads analysis of the Cost reconciliation vs  Budget.
• Coaching relevant stakeholder on Process Plant Reliability best practices.
• Being a reliability culture change agent and a HRO champion.
• Acceptable Completion Date setting for maintenance repairs.
• Coaching the Process Plant on effective financial risk management - cost vs equipment availability
• Compiling the Process Plant Maintenance Budget and analyzing monthly to enable sound cost management.
• Provide DFR (Design For Reliability) support to Project Managers and Technical Support department.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• B-Eng or BSC in Engineering, Chemical, Mechanical, Metallurgy or Electrical preferred; Or
• B-Tech in Chemical, Mechanical, Metallurgy or Electrical Engineering, coupled with 10 years’ experience in Reliability & Maintenance
• Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) is preferred.

Work Experience:

• 8 Years’ Refinery Experience in Process Plant Support or R&M (Reliability and Maintenance) departments

Knowledge and skills:

• Experience in Asset Management:
• Reliability Strategy Development,
• Good knowledge in Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Reliability Opportunity Improvement (ROI) process, Intensive Process Review (IPR), Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies, condition monitoring, Predictive and Preventative Maintenance, Bad actors and threat management.
• Understanding of Risk Based Inspection (RBI).   
• Ability to perform asset data analyses to support educated data-driven business decisions.