job description - Reliability Engineer
This position will be based in Johannesburg with national and international travel
Description
- The purpose of this position is to be responsible for the estimation, prevention and management of “lifecycle” engineering uncertainty and risk failure that could adversely affect plant or business operations.
- This includes loss elimination, equipment risk management and introducing reliability improvement initiatives.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with Minopex Health, Safety & Environmental responsibilities and statutory requirements
- Working with the Engineering team to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations
- Responsible for adhering to the life cycle asset management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets
- Advise on the installation specifications along with commissioning plans
- Developing acceptance tests and inspection criteria
- Participating in the final inspection of new installations
- Define, design, develop, monitor and refine an asset maintenance plan with the primary focus on proactive preventive maintenance
- Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
- Providing input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
- Developing engineering solutions for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. This includes capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
- Conducting data analysis using techniques such as:
- Statistical process control
- Reliability modeling
- Prediction Fault tree analysis
- Reliability prediction and improvement
- Reliability culture / human errors / human factors
- Reliability and availability programme plan
- Use of Six Sigma (6?) methodology
- Conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
- Failure reporting
- Analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS)
- Working with the production team to perform analyses of assets including:
- Asset utilization
- Equipment effectiveness and remaining life cycle
- Assist with tracking of Maintenance day planning as well as Project planning and tracking on Microsoft Project Bar chart or Teamwork
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Engineering
- ECSA registration would be beneficial
- Post Graduate qualification in Asset Management
- Qualification in Project Management would be beneficial
- A qualification in condition monitoring would be beneficial
Experience and Skills Requirements
- 5 years’ experience as a Reliability Engineer Or Maintenance Engineer in the mining industry with 3 years’ experience in asset management
- In-depth knowledge of asset integrity and reliability
- Good understanding of maintenance work management processes
- Sound working knowledge of different types of mining assets
- Knowledge of relevant Safety and Mining legislation
- Understanding of Engineering best practices and new technologies related to Engineering principles and processes
- Advanced computer skills, with emphasis on condition monitoring software
- Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection
- Good communication skill and report writing
- Experience in Project Management / Microsoft Project
- Knowledge of CMMS
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