Team Leader - Predictive Maintenance

Job description / Role

- Establishing and implementing management systems and practices that focus on continuously improving reliability of systems related to rotating equipments.
- Direct supervision, development and management of the Predictive maintenance team to ensure efficient and effective work execution and production availability.
- Providing technical assistance to engineers at the site: Rotating Equipment, ICS, Operation, Process and Electrical for condition monitoring based activities
- Improve and maintain efficiencies of the site's rotating equipment Activities
- Ensuring the sustainability of reliability processes, such as Bad Actors, Root Cause Failure Analysis, FMEA, MTBF, etc.
- Institute and help execute a reliability centered maintenance program.
- Supporting the development and implementation of reliability strategies consistent with requirements as defined by Asset Management.
- Responsible for analyzing and recommending changes to site-wide maintenance strategies or programs to drive continuous improvement based on recommendations from Reliability tools (Meridium)
- Act as the Maintenance interface with Project Engineering to provide input on new capital projects.
- Developing and maintaining external specialty services contractors (e.g., Lube oil analysis, boroscopic inspection, Bently Nevada, SKF, Emerson, etc.).
- Prepare the annual budget for the reliability section & monitor expenditure over the year
- Prepare and present monthly equipment performance reports in terms of availability, reliability, spares parts utilized, recommended maintenance activities during next outage.
- Optimum utilization of MAXIMO, SAP and Reliability software.
- Use historical operations, reliability and maintenance data in analytical tools and studies to sustain and improve asset performance.
- Train and mentor engineers and other plant employees on the fundamentals of Predictive maintenance and Plant reliability

Requirements

- Degree in Mechanical Engineering OR Higher
- Level-II Vibration Analysis certification is must
- Minimum 15 years experience of leading in condition monitoring
- Minimum of 15 years plant engineering experience in refining, petrochemical, or chemical industry required.
- At least 5 years as a Team-lead.
- Strong communications, interpersonal skills, initiative, follow up, analysis and problem assessment skills required.
- Experience in On-line vibration monitoring system such as Bently Nevada (System-1), 3500 rack, ADRE)
- Experience in off-line vibration monitoring system such as SKF aptitude and Emerson-CSI2130
- Trouble shooting of rotating machines & their auxiliary equipments
- Knowledge of various PdM techniques such as Lube oil analysis, Data analysis techniques (Wiebull and Statistical analysis)
- Experience of Meridium RCM will be an added advantage.
- Must know English
- Knowing Arabic shall be an advantage

Technical software knowledge:
- Working knowledge in following is must
- All MS Office applications
- Bently Nevada (System-1, 3500 rack configuration)
- SAP
- AMS suite (CSI-2130)
- SKF aptitude
- OSI-PI
- Meridium (shall be an advantage)

About the Company

Orpic is one of Oman’s largest and most rapidly growing businesses in the Middle East oil industry. Orpic’s refineries in Suhar and Muscat, as well as the aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Suhar, provide fuel, chemicals, plastics and other petroleum products, to Oman and the world.

Owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, Orpic’s impressive integration of refinery and plant operations coupled with its ambitious growth plans, has cemented its position as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking companies. The company currently recruits around 2,600 employees who work towards the common goal of an integrated Omani refining and petrochemicals business expected to increase to 3,000 by 2020.

Orpic is committed to operating safely and reliably, while paying due care to the environment and the communities within which it operates. The company strongly believes in serving Oman with pride.