Reliability Engineer Electrical at Sappi

As a Reliability Engineer - Electrical , you will be responsible for:

• Professionally and systematically defines designs, develops, monitors, and refines the asset maintenance plan that includes value-added preventive maintenance.
• Effective utilisation of predictive, proactive, condition-based, and other non-destructive testing methods designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
• Drive SAP maturity and ensure adherence to maintenance standards with special focus on asset utilisation, planning preparation and maintenance execution.
• Undertake detailed analysis of the plant/assets to develop, drive strategies and recommendations that will improve the reliability and performance of the plant, systems, and maintenance effectiveness.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams to develop, maintain, and compile asset reliability, criticality, and condition information necessary for the asset planning, delivery, and maintenance strategies.
• Supply reliability status monthly reporting figures, analyse trends and develop improvement projects to address the issues of concern for continuous improvement.
• Works with project engineers to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations and ensure adherence to the life cycle asset management process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Responsible to guide maintenance, projects, and production towards the best practices to improve availability and reliability.
• Drive maturity and adherence to regional shut management best practice strategy.
• Assist with the coordination of annual, quarterly, and monthly outages by utilising shut planning in line with shut best practices and procedures.
• Responsible for improvement specific training, coaching, and development of engineering personnel in the maintenance of electrical equipment consistent with regional maintenance best practices and operating objectives.
• Advise and monitor on spares and materials strategies for electrical equipment.
• Develop electrical engineering solutions and drive the implementation thereof, for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations.
• Ensure a safe and healthy work environment through the compliance to legal regulations and mill procedures (e.g., OHS Act, ISO systems, etc.)
• Effectively direct team members in terms of performance management, talent management, goal alignment, career development and learning.
• Responsible for selected capex cost control and effectiveness.

What are we looking for?

• BSc degree / BEng / BTech or equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• Government Certificate of Competence Electrical (Factories) advantageous.
• MDP or relevant management qualification will be advantageous.
• Relevant experience 5 years.
• Pulp and Paper Industry experience will be advantageous.
• RCM, TPM and/or Lean Manufacturing experience will be advantageous.