Principal Reliability Engineer at Anglo American

Job Description:

We are seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer to improve the overall reliability culture across the Southern African operations. This role will be to provide discipline leadership and expertise in reliability engineering fundamentals through the development and deployment of appropriate engineering systems. The Principal Reliability Engineer will enable a reliability focused culture across operations, by optimising the performance and reliability of physical assets (mobile and fixed plant) through growing the health of discipline, application of reliability processes (including defect elimination, total fluids management, structural integrity, condition monitoring and asset tactics development) and supporting the ongoing capability building in all of the operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a thought-leader, technical expert and first point of reference for leading practices in reliability engineering.  
• Provide subject matter exertise to strategies and tactics to improve reliability.
• Monitor and review operational performance and reliability across the (Platinum/De Beers/Copper) operations.
• Build operational competence in reliability engineering fundamentals by:
• Providing high level advice, support and coaching
• Developing and making available best practice processes, templates, guidelines, procedures, etc.
• Development and delivery of site training
• Supporting the business to proactively use data (e.g. asset health, reliability statistics, outcomes of PM/ PDM processes) to drive continual improvement plans and a reliability centred culture
• Support operations to investigate and close any gaps in reliability based culture or processes.
• Support gap analysis and identification/ validation of opportunities and development of plans to close gaps.
• Support the sites through defect elimination investigations of highly complex critical /persistent equipment issues as well as risk studies & significant projects
• Evaluate and advise on the reliability based skills status, skills development and resourcing at sites
• Provide technical evaluation & due diligence – projects, M&S, Investment Proposals etc. Support reliability based value identification and knowledge sharing across (Platinum/De Beers/Copper)

Qualifications:

• A degree (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
• Ideally a Masters degree in an Engineering
• Registered Professional Engineer
• A demonstrated thought leader and considered a global expert in the understanding and application of Reliability Engineering Principles in the mining and resource industry.
• Strong track record of implementing a globally designed strategic approach towards the application of technical expertise in Reliability Engineering Principles in a complex, matrix structured global resources organisation.
• Track record of success in liaising and dealing at senior levels with stakeholders JV partners, suppliers, regulatory bodies, research institutions and industry associations and using own professional, technical expertise to constructively influence decisions and outcomes.
• Has held senior technical roles in a complex, matrix structured global resources company.
• Advanced understanding of the full mining/ resource extraction value chain and its key drivers – from the ore body through the extraction, processing, infrastructure and mining.
• Good understanding of greater national and global market dynamics impacting the mining industry.
• Solid understanding of key technical concepts relating to the relevant sub-discipline. 
• Significant experience in using and interpreting complex data in conjunction with fundamental engineering and scientific theory and analyses to make reliability engineering decisions and set asset management strategy for key equipment
• Provides consistent outstanding behaviour in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety
• A proven track record of improving/re-designing safety systems and leading and/or participation in safety incident investigations by applying not only fundamental engineering and scientific theory and analyses but also a hands-on practical approach to find effective solutions 

Closing Date: 26th, April 2022