Reliability Engineer

Job description / Role

Job purpose

Provide technical expertise with experience-based knowledge and assistance to technical and operational divisions/departments on all related matters to reliability engineering, assessment, and monitoring.

Job specific accountabilities

• Conducts root cause failure analysis (RCFA), asset performance management (APM), and reliability centered maintenance (RCM) studies in an effort to convert the nature of maintenance from reactive repairs to proactive preventive maintenance and condition monitoring.
• Identifies and applies appropriate maintenance strategies to minimize the impact of failures on business performance.
• Leads and participates in brownfield/greenfield (BF/GF) engineering activities to improve reliability and optimize maintenance costs.
• Focuses on identification of equipment issues before they result in failures via use of predictive tools and reliability methods.
• Maintains bad actor listing and reporting. Researches and provides technical advice for upgrading and refurbishment of mechanical equipment during major overhauls or new installations.
• Reviews packages for new projects and recommends equipment selection and redundancy; participates in equipment review and proposes new solutions; alerts on obsolescence of equipment.
• Recommends necessary modification or replacement of equipment to overcome technical problems.
• Assists operational sites to develop appropriate monitoring techniques to help reflect the equipment's real conditions.
• Leads specific schemes or works allocated to reliability engineering in different disciplines including mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation.

Minimum qualification

Bachelor degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or equivalent.

Minimum experience, knowledge & skills

6 years of experience, preferably in the oil and gas industry.

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.