Reliability Engineer: FAMP & FAT RSA at Fraser Alexander (Pty) Ltd.

PURPOSE

This position exists to ensure that reliability engineering services for mining maintenance, re-mining, water services and process services are optimised and delivered in a professional and effective manner whilst adhering to all safety and legislative requirements including improve the reliability and life expectancy of equipment creatively by analysing down-time and recommending innovative improvement actions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Risk Management

• Identify and analyse high consequent hazards on operations to provide recommendations for the best approach to enable safe production and engineering
• Develop, implement and monitor a change management plan for the recommendations to control the high consequent hazards
• Drive actions to encourage, implement and improve systems
• Obtain a good understanding of the quality, design and/or modification of the specific plant, equipment or environment prior to the risk analysis
• Ensure that risk analysis considers quality of work processes and depends on quality of engineering and production processes
• Ensure that any risk management recommendation include record keeping practices and are kept and up to date for audit purposes
• Develop, modify and scrutinize all work instructions related to identify risks for practicality

Provide Specialised Advice and Support

• Analyse equipment downtime and determine mean time before failure (MTBF) and mean time to repair (MTTR) to identify problem areas and to recommend possible solutions
• Provide advice and solutions as required and within the timeframes and coordinate the development of standards
• Communicate all advice and solutions to all concerned parties and ensure t awareness of the consequences to avoid possible reoccurrence of problems
• Monitor the risk factors continuously and develop pro-active solutions and cautious to avoid any possibly problems
• Ensure that all lessons learned are shared on a continuous basis to enhance pro-active actions
• Implement and contribute to continuous improvement and asset optimisation initiatives and projects to ensure best practice engineering processes are in place
• Manage contractors as part of the team to ensure zero harm to workers and minimal damage to property
• Ensure that all contracts are in place to monitor actual contractor performance and compare to agree upon requirements
• Drive initiatives aimed at eliminating waste, improving productivity and reducing operating costs to increase the cost-effectiveness of projects
• Assist in implementation of an AOM plan for the Department
• Develop maintenance related documentation and implement (standards, procedures and checklists)

Budget and Cost Control Management

• Contribute to the development of the Department budget
• Manage the section's expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings
• Identify any opportunities for improved cost management and either raise or address these

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Build, manage and maintain healthy diverse workable internal relations and implement remedial actions where required
• Build, manage and maintain healthy relations to assist in achievement of organisational goals
• Liaise with stakeholders to provide relevant and specialised support and input for operations and projects

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with health, safety and environmental standards and with Company values
• Set the health, safety and environmental expectations and ESG compliance
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections and observations, and address issues as part of demonstrating safety leadership
• Promote good housekeeping to ensure compliance and an environment where outputs can be delivered within a controlled risk environment

People Management

• Allocate resources to achieve the section plan both day to day and through the year
• Monitor the activities of the teams and appropriately intervene to address any cross-team matters

QUALIFICATIONS

• Engineering National Degree / equivalent NQF 6 or higher

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of five years in the planning or asset management environment
• Relevant experience within the engineering maintenance environment, preferably within the mining industry
• Competency in planning software is compulsory
• Mechanical and Civil Engineering
• Asset management and optimisation
• Computer literacy at advanced level for MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Good communication (verbal and written)
• Interpersonal
• Technical analysis
• Project management
• Driving business performance