Reliability Engineer - Johannesburg at CBRE Excellerate

Main purpose / objective of the position:

• Reliability Engineer is responsible for the reliability improvements of the site equipment delivering world class reliability through technical assurance to the assets.
• Responsible for managing safe working behaviour of the reliability team, demonstrating a high regard for personal and team EHS performance, sustaining a zero overdue status of investigations and actions.
• Meet the site target of zero overdue compliance actions in terms of Quality actions and documentation updates.
• Produce and implement the site reliability policies for all equipment and systems, ensuring all planned routines are correctly specified and critical spares are available to allow the maintenance team to effectively complete tasks.
• Site lead for all engineering Root cause analysis and implementation of long-term engineering solutions to prevent reoccurrences, manage KPI’s including Run Hours, Mean Time Between Failure (MBTF) and Cost to repair of equipment and systems.
• Work with the responsible engineers to Implement technical standards assuring all assets remain fully compliant with cGMP status Supply reliability status monthly reporting figures, analyse trends and develop improvement projects to address the issues of concern, make continuous improvement a way of life.
• This role will also own the site Probability of Failure on Demand (PoFOD) Report and issue twice annually.
• Manage all team personnel issues and concerns and through performance management identify talent to develop as well as holding the team to account.
• Contribute to site capital investment process, highlight all engineering projects which have a benefit to the site Responsible for developing and implementing the site predictive/preventative engineering policies.

Experience / Education:

• Industrial Engineering Degree
• 3-5 years’ experience in functional analysis (FMEA; FHA; FFA)
• Preventative/Planned maintenance optimization
• CAFM systems experience and proficiency
• A Chartered Mechanical Engineer with 3-5 years relevant asset technical and reliability experience and a demonstrable track record of delivering increased reliability and technical assurance.
• The role requires a high level of concern for standards and compliance with regulatory requirements and the ability to manage the safe working practices of the reliability team.
• A keen investigative nature to always achieve the root cause of equipment or systems/procedural failures.
• Ability to gather data and analyse reliability trends to develop effective improvement projects. Experience of implementing predictive maintenance policies and increasing asset availability are key skills for this role.

Competencies required: Demonstrated Behaviours
Conceptual Thinking:

• Understands how own tasks relate to the wider framework.
• Makes connections between facts and events that are not readily obvious.
• Develops models and sees the ‘big picture’.
• Compares present data and events with previously defined frameworks.
• Relates different pieces of information and recognises trends.

Innovativeness:

• Thinks in terms of options when identifying solutions.
• Originates alternatives to conventional thinking.
• Produces novel ideas to modify and improve procedures.
• Tries different and original ways to deal with organisation problems and opportunities.
• Produces imaginative or unique responses to a problem.
• Develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Generates alternatives before settling on a solution.

Ability to Learn:

• Quickly understands what new tasks/jobs required.
• Easily learns unique job-related vocabulary.
• Quickly understands and uses processes, technologies and ideas that are continually being updated.
• Easily learns new information regarding changing products, operations, etc.
• Understands and learns to work with new business, office and information technologies.
• Learns highly complex information regarding a product or operation.
• Is open and understands new ideas.

Adaptability:

• Pursues policies and procedures consistent with local norms and values.
• Adjusts strategies to changes in the environment.
• Adopts means of communication and interaction that suit different cultures.
• Deals with effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Behaves consistently with local norms and values.
• Maintains effectiveness when dealing with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Decides courses of action in ways that take account of different environments and cultures.

Self-Control:

• Remains calm when personally challenged.
• Keeps things in perspective despite fatigue or frustration.
• Maintains effectiveness and commitment in the face of disappointment.
• Copes effectively with ambiguity.
• Is objective under pressure and in difficult or stressful circumstances.
• Works effectively under tight deadlines.
• Maintains a business-like approach when unduly annoyed, disturbed or disrupted by others. Maintains objectivity when interpreting information and defining problems.