Reliability Engineer at Minopex

Introduction

• This position will be based in Johannesburg with national and international travel

Description

• The purpose of this position is to be responsible for the estimation, prevention and management of “lifecycle” engineering uncertainty and risk failure that could adversely affect plant or business operations.
• This includes loss elimination, equipment risk management and introducing reliability improvement initiatives.

Duties & Responsibilities:

•  Ensure compliance with Minopex Health, Safety & Environmental responsibilities and statutory requirements
•  Working with the Engineering team to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations
•  Responsible for adhering to the life cycle asset management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets
•  Advise on the installation specifications along with commissioning plans
•  Developing acceptance tests and inspection criteria
•  Participating in the final inspection of new installations
•  Define, design, develop, monitor and refine an asset maintenance plan with the primary focus on proactive preventive maintenance
•  Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
•  Providing input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
•  Developing engineering solutions for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. This includes capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
• Conducting data analysis using techniques such as:
  •  Statistical process control
  •  Reliability modeling
  •  Prediction Fault tree analysis
  •  Reliability prediction and improvement
  •  Reliability culture / human errors / human factors
  •  Reliability and availability programme plan
• Use of Six Sigma (6σ) methodology
•  Conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
•  Failure reporting
•  Analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS)
•  Working with the production team to perform analyses of assets including:
  •   Asset utilization
  •   Equipment effectiveness and remaining life cycle
• Assist with tracking of Maintenance day planning as well as Project planning and tracking on Microsoft Project Bar chart or Teamwork

Qualification Requirements:

•  Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Engineering
•  ECSA registration would be beneficial
•  Post Graduate qualification in Asset Management
•  Qualification in Project Management would be beneficial
•  A qualification in condition monitoring would be beneficial

Experience and Skills Requirements

•  5 years’ experience as a Reliability Engineer Or Maintenance Engineer in the mining industry with 3 years’ experience in asset management
•  In-depth knowledge of asset integrity and reliability
•  Good understanding of maintenance work management processes
•  Sound working knowledge of different types of mining assets
•  Knowledge of relevant Safety and Mining legislation
•  Understanding of Engineering best practices and new technologies related to Engineering principles and processes
•  Advanced computer skills, with emphasis on condition monitoring software
•  Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection
•  Good communication skill and report writing
•  Experience in Project Management / Microsoft Project
•  Knowledge of CMMS