Senior Reliability Engineer

Job description / Role

Objectives:
- To apply deep specialist technical and operations knowledge and skills to make recommendations to maximize the reliability, availability and performance of complex industrial equipment and systems to optimize return-on-investment (ROI)
- To plan and recommend the departmental preventative maintenance program

Main responsibilities:
- Plan and recommend a Preventative Maintenance (PM) Program to maximize the reliability, availability and performance of complex equipment to optimize ROI
- Understand the business and production needs and constraints. Conduct FMECA.
- Develop the Maintenance program (preventative maintenance and major maintenance) to optimize business and maintenance outcomes. Develop the costing model
- Plan the work: action risk analyses, including EHS risks; action the task list; define materials requirements (materials, man -hours, tools, equipment)
- Identify and select spare parts. Update the spare parts list and the Bill of Materials
- Develop the System Performance Testing approach.
- Implement the reliability strategy and costing model
- Review and improve the maintenance program
- Develop the PM budget in consultation with the Superintendent
- Manage the Asset evaluation program
- Execute major overhauls and annual refit programs

Control and maintain documentation to ensure accurate complete, up to date records and SOPs
- Ensure documentation is maintained (filed; updated; version control implemented)
- Support the leaders to develop SOPs

Performance monitoring:
- Develop, monitor and report reliability KPIs to enable the leadership to track performance and make decisions on ways to improve performance, including asset efficiency and maintenance efficiency

Plan and execute reliability projects (including capex projects) to maximize the reliability, availability and performance of the equipment and to optimize ROI
- Articulate the project brief, the scope of work and the requirements
- Prepare the Appropriation Request. Gain approval
- Set objectives; plan the tasks and activities; determine the resource requirements; determine the timeline and the sequencing. Develop the costing model
- Action risk analyses, including EHS risks
- Commission and manage consultants and contractors (prepare the brief; accept and evaluate proposals; commission work; manage the outputs; manage costs)
- Analyze, monitor and control expenditure to ensure SA achieves value for the investment. Take action to correct budget variances. Analyse, report and justify budget variances
- Manage the client's expectations in relation to cost, timetable and scheduling
- Fulfill the duties of the User Representative on maintenance projects
- Develop the necessary Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); consult with stakeholders on the SOP; train staff on the SOP
- Maintain complete, accurate project records. Update the Master data record, including functional location

Apply specialized technical skills to develop recommendations to maximize the reliability, availability and performance of complex equipment to optimize return-on-investment (ROI)

Conduct analyses of reliability problems:
- Conduct failure mode and effects analyses to identify the critical plan failure modes in a systemic and structured way
- Examine each to determine the optimum maintenance policy to reduce the severity of each failure
- Investigate to determine the reliability required for the particular situation considering the cost limitations for equipment up/down time, repair or replacement costs, weight, size, and availability of materials and equipment
- Determine the cost advantages of alternative action plans to comply with the department's demands for reliable processes and equipment in order to avoid failures, or, action tasks to address problems or to optimize production outcomes

Deliver coaching, training, technical advice and support to the maintenance teams to (1) enable the teams to quickly and efficiently return the equipment to full operating capability, and (2) to build team capability and increase performance
- Coach Technicians on safety, technical and operational procedures, including risk analyses, to ensure high standards of technical capability and performance assist technicians to trouble-shoot Perform the role of technical SME in at least one subject area
- Educate the organization in best practices for re liability-centred maintenance
- Develop new KPIs; engage, train and motivate the teams to deliver against the new performance goals

Requirements

- Bachelor in Engineering with 6 years relevant experience
- Diploma in Engineering with 8 years relevant experience
- English language: Fluent in written and spoken English

Ability to:
- Read, understand and interpret complex technical documents in English
- Communicate complex technical information to non-technical people

EHS:
- Strong knowledge of the EHS policies, systems and management procedures required in an industrial plant.
- Strong commitment to EHS principles. The capacity to lead and motivate others to work safely

SAP:
- Strong working knowledge, particularly of the PM modules

About the Company

Sohar Aluminium was formed in September 2004 to undertake a landmark Greenfield aluminium smelter project in the Sultanate of Oman and is jointly owned by Oman Oil Company, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC - TAQA and Rio Tinto.

By implementing decades of industry insight in its design, specification and construction Sohar Aluminium has been created to ensure efficiency, environmental protection and the utmost safety of its workforce. The smelter has an annual production capacity of 375,000 tonnes of high quality Aluminium.

Omanisation, which currently stands at 72% of its workforce, is a driving force within the organisation. The development of its young employees is paramount and with that in mind, Sohar Aluminium has its own internationally recognised training centre which gives each and every employee the opportunity for further learning.