Engineer Reliability at South32

POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• The purpose of the role is to provide specialist advice and ensure asset integrity is managed and maintained over the life cycle of the assets; maintain a healthy asset integrity plan that actively addresses asset integrity, obsolescence, and end-of-life of assets; inform the capital plan for asset replacement strategy and asset improvement; and to ensure that changes to equipment and plant follows the set change management process.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Degree / BTech / National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 4 years’ experience in Plant Maintenance and Equipment Reliability;
• Experience in Managing Stakeholders, Consultants and Service Provides is essential;
• Experience in setting up projects from condition assessment, initiation up to execution (feasibility) stage is essential;
• Experienced and knowledgeable in conducting site inspections, condition assessments, compliance audits, and producing quality technical reports is essential;
• Experience in Asset Care Plan development using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process is essential;
• Experience in the extracting and analyzing ERP information (using the BI tools) is essential;
• Good understanding of Risk Management Processes for Criticality analysis is essential;
• Experience in setting of plant standards is essential;
• Experience in developing and optimizing asset life cycle strategies; calculating Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is advantageous;
• Experience working on Reliability block diagram modelling; Component reliability modelling is advantageous;
• Design experience within a heavy industry, materials handling, or mining environment is advantageous;
• Experience in Six Sigma Analytical techniques is advantageous;
• Certified Asset Management Practitioner (CAMP) is advantageous;
• Registered with an ECSA is advantageous;
• Project management professional (PMP) is advantageous.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Establish and ensure adherence to systems, processes and standards for the maintenance of dynamic / life cycle data relating to assets and asset systems;
• Establish and maintain systems and processes that ensure application of reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) concepts and design requirements for new and existing assets;
• Establish and maintain systems and processes that manage asset and asset systems risk due to unreliability as related to health, safety, environment, operations, quality, regulatory compliance and cost;
• Create and maintain total cost of ownership models in order to identify low reliability, high maintainability assets / components / tasks, initiate improvement projects;
• Responsible for the maintenance and updating of all asset care plans, corrective task lists and work instructions for existing assets and assets systems;
• Evaluate asset investment proposals, preliminary design concepts, system engineering block diagrams and uses RAM Analysis to provide total cost of ownership models.
• Responsible for the development of all asset care plans, corrective task lists and work instructions for assets and assets systems prior to commissioning.