Reliability Engineer at Anglo American

Job Description:

• As our Reliability Engineeryour responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Consistently apply Safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site are paramount.
• Provide an environment for on-site teams to challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without repercussions.
• Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks.
• Review and assess the impact of critical risks and monitor the effectiveness of critical controls relevant to the work area.
• Ensure Statutory maintenance requirements are included in the Asset Tactics for allocated assets.
• Ensure Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) requirements are included in maintenance plans for all allocated assets.
• Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
• Performance and Delivery

Reliability Modelling:

• Implement and maintain reliability block models of plant and equipment.
• Conduct Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability (RAMS) analysis.
• Refine and recommend reliability improvement opportunities with RAMS analysis.

Asset Tactics Development:

• Review the asset register and assess asset criticality to determine critical assets.
• Review the effectiveness of asset tactics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure the implementation of asset tactics as maintenance plans in SAP.
• Recommend updates to asset tactics as maintenance plans in SAP.
• Implement and update service strategy scope of work for when the equipment is operational – 12 months forecast.
• Provide input and review the CAPEX budget – 12 months forecast (asset tactics input).
• Provide input and review the OPEX budget – 12 months forecast (asset tactics input).

Equipment Lifecycle Cost Modelling:

• Refine, review and update equipment life cycle cost model.
• Identify reliability improvement opportunities from life cycle cost modelling.
• Implement asset management plans for critical assets.
• Implement and maintain a 5-year running critical asset replacement plan as input to the 5-year CAPEX budget.

Operational Readiness:

• Provide operational readiness inputs and support for new assets.
• Maintain the maintenance readiness for new assets.

Set Shutdown Service Strategy:

• Refine, review, and update the shut-down scope of work - 12-month forecast.
• Provide input and review the CAPEX budget – 12 months forecast (shutdown input).
• Provide input and review the OPEX budget – 12 months forecast (shutdown input).

Goods and Services Management:

• Goods preservation, storage, transportation, handling, and maintenance (PSTH&M)
• Implement equipment spare preservation and maintenance plans.
• Verify that equipment spare preservation and maintenance are performed through equipment auditing.
• Goods quality management
• Implement the equipment spare part quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
• Verify that the spare parts quality assurance is performed through auditing.
• Provide input into the QA/QC requirements.

Rotable spare management

•  Implement rotable equipment spare management methodology and requirements.
• Implement rotable equipment spare quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
• Implement the rotable process that is being performed through auditing.
• Goods and services forecast.
• Implement asset part consumption forecast.
• Coordinate asset part procurement based on consumption forecast with Supply Chain.
• Optimise asset spare part stockholding in conjunction with Supply Chain.
• Review and identify asset-critical spares.
• Obsolescence Management
• Maintain the spare part obsolescence management plans.
• Configuration Management:
• Implement and maintain the Configuration management plan.
• Verify configuration auditing for allocated assets.

Management of Engineering Change:

• Adhere to the Anglo American maintenance and engineering management of the change process.
• Analyse the proposed change and provide recommendations.
• Update master data associated with the engineering changes.

Asset Health Management:

• Refine asset health monitoring system requirements.
• Implement automated asset health monitoring logic based on engineering science.
• Asset Integrity Management (Mobile plant):
• Implement Asset Integrity Management requirements.
• Provide inputs to CAPEX to execute an asset integrity improvement project for a moveable plant.

Analyse Reliability Performance:

• Define performance targets and KPIs for equipment reliability and availability.
• Implement processes and systems to monitor compliance with work management KPIs.
• Maintain the process to monitor and audit compliance with weekly schedules.
• Ensure compliance with maintenance tactics and plans by monitoring and auditing their implementation.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with statutory inspection requirements.
• Track and report on completion of corrective maintenance work orders.
• Implement and monitor a process to manage corrective work requests.
• Monitor and analyse cost performance.
• Monitor and assess the health of assets.

Defect Elimination:

• Conduct advanced RCA investigations.
• Review and approve RCA investigations and recommendations.
• Manage the implementation of RCA.
• Own the defect register.
• Communities of Practice (CoP):
• Participate in CoP activities.
• Share reliability work and initiatives with CoP.

Coaching and Mentoring:

• Mentor the Site Reliability Engineers.
• Coach and mentor, the Senior Planner and Scheduler.
• This role is in Engineering & Maintenance (ENG) department on a band 6.11 level reporting to the 1. Section Engineer (Kolomela), 2. Section Manager (Sishen)

Qualifications:

• B Engineering or BTech in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering
• Certifications
• Prescribed
• Preferred
• SA Drivers License Code B

Technical Knowledge

• 5 Years of operational experience in Mechanical Maintenance, Reliability and Diagnostics.
• Experience in Plant and HME operations.
• Knowledgeable with Heavy Mobile Equipment developments in Engineering, Maintenance and Condition Monitoring techniques.
• Provides technical input into Maintenance Practices (Planning, Execution and Reliability).
• Understands the selection and application of equipment to suit operational requirements and provides technical support to solve complex problems.