Snr Reliability Engineer (108091) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job
The Senior Reliability Engineer will apply Engineering Asset Management principles to enable safe and cost-effective utilisation of engineering assets throughout their life cycles. This will include the development and implementation of maintenance strategies and tactics and improving equipment reliability through defect elimination.

The Senior Reliability Engineer role provides technical support and input on equipment reliability and performance through analysis, planning, modelling and reporting. The role extracts data from the CMMS (SAP) and other database systems and through the analysis of the information makes value driven recommendations to the business.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

Supply metric inputs into RAM (Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) studies

Support with the early equipment management process with new equipment procurement:

• Business case development
• Capital application process
• Operational requirements and technical specification
• Maintenance strategy, tactics and RCM task list development
• Commodity creation and inventory holding strategy
• Development of critical spare parts lists
• Development of life cycle cost models for major equipment. Make recommendations on optimal overhaul intervention intervals.

Equipment Maintenance Strategy (EMS) development and implementation through the application of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

• Facilitates or participation in failure analysis and defect elimination techniques.
• Deviation Management (DM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) inclusive of quality reporting of the outcomes and health of the management system.
• Reliability Performance Tools & Techniques (RPTT) which relates to the use of SAP (CMMS) functionality and sources of data to be used in reliability, failure and data analysis as well as the reporting of “bad actor” equipment.
• Participate in equipment tactics development.
• Development and review of RCM task lists for critical equipment.
• Assist and participate in equipment base line risk assessments.
• Support the Work Management Process (WMP) – Work closely with the Central Planning, Condition Monitoring and Warranty departments to maintain and improve the process.
• Monitor compliance to maintenance schedules.
• Health status analysis, monitoring and management the risk of critical engineering assets.
• Generation of equipment performance KPIs.
• Actively support the material management department by identifying critical or strategic spares and maintaining the register. Also support with optimising the stock holding policy.
• Regular vendor, supplier or OEM engagement on equipment reliability, safety and cost performance.

Leadership and Values:

• Apply the asset management process model (operations core processes) in the relevant operation department.
• Effectively and efficiently utilize engineering practices in the relevant operation department.
• Issue reliability engineering reports (reviews) at agreed intervals after thorough analysis (utilising various data sources) that gives clear guidance on focus areas for the improvement of operation reliability.
• Identify improvement opportunities that will help ensure that reliability engineering processes are effective and efficient and relates to the asset management model.
• Be the custodian of reliability business processes, procedures, work instructions and practices in the relevant operation department.

Relationships, Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Help to ensure that processes governed by reliability engineering are understood by all role players in the relevant operating department.
• Support the relevant personnel in the operations departments to obtain the necessary competence in reliability practices through training, facilitation and coaching.
• Play an important role in the prioritisation of improvement activities and projects within the operations departments based on the benefits of OEE improvements.
• Track the health of reliability governance processes in operations departments and influence proper application of such governance.
• Help to ensure that reliability metrics are established, optimised and the trends reported on to drive the continuous improvement of sustainable operations.
• Track and report on critical next steps from incident investigations of significant operations impact.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Min Experience

• 8+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

• MEng Engineering Management (wish)

Knowledge and skills

• Conversant with the MHSA
• Experience in the maintenance of mining equipment
• Experience in reliability engineering roles
• Advance level computer literacy: MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint)
• ERP knowledge of SAP: Material Management, Plant Maintenance and Financial Management
• Excellent analytical and data management skills
• Skilled in reliability centred maintenance
• Skilled in root case analysis methods

Competencies

• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money.  Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.  Maintains a market-focused approach to business.  Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions.  The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Leading change: Requires creating experiences for people that reveal new possibilities, while uniting them to drive strategies that harness the resources to win in the marketplace. It requires optimizing the culture of an organization while making investments to drive business growth – simultaneously.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging technology, best practices, competition, regulations, and legislation.

Closing Date: 21st, April 2022