Specialist Reliability Engineer Plant

Company Description

We have an exciting opportunity for Specialist Reliability Engineer. The purpose of this role is to manage equipment reliability and improvement programs, ensuring safe operation and effective maintenance of

allocated assets through expertise in reliability engineering.

We’re the best in the industry.

You’ll make us better.

Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives", delivering the metals and minerals that make modern life possible – from mobile phones to medicines.

Kumba Iron Ore

We produce high-grade iron ore, the key component in steel widely used in construction and manufacturing across the world. Our activities include all aspects – exploration; mining; processing and blending; shipping; marketing and selling. In South Africa, we have mining operations in the Northern Cape province, as well as a head office in Rosebank, Gauteng, and a port operation in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape.

Job Description

As Specialist Reliability Engineer your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment:

• Support the Section Manager in Safety Audits and verify control effectiveness (i.e. Technical Standards Implementation, Audit Actions Implementation, Action Effectiveness).
• Conduct an in-the-field assessment of work practices, safety compliance and workforce capabilities.

Reliability Management:

• Define the health program for allocated assets per the E&M global asset health program.
• Define reliability engineering activities for allocated assets.

Reliability Modelling:

• Develop and maintain reliability block models of plant and equipment.
• Conduct Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability (RAMS) analysis.
• Identify and recommend reliability improvement opportunities with RAMS analysis.
• Review Asset Component life and identify improvement opportunities to realise expected life, increase expected life or propose replacement cycles (norm) adjustments.

Asset Tactics Development:

• Review the asset register and assess asset criticality to determine critical assets.
• Review the effectiveness of asset tactics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure the implementation of asset tactics as maintenance plans in SAP.
• Recommend updates to asset tactics as maintenance plans in SAP. • Develop and update service strategy scope of work for when the equipment is operational – 12 months forecast.
  • Provide input and review the CAPEX budget – 12 months forecast (asset tactics input).
  • Provide input and review the OPEX budget – 12 months forecast (asset tactics input).

Equipment Lifecycle Cost Modelling:

• Develop, review and update equipment life cycle cost model.
• Identify reliability improvement opportunities from life cycle cost modelling.
• Develop asset management plans for critical assets.
• Develop and maintain a 5-year running critical asset replacement plan as input to the 5-year CAPEX budget.

Operational Readiness:

• Provide operational readiness inputs and support for new assets.
• Approve the maintenance readiness for new assets.

Set Shutdown Service Strategy:

• Develop, review and update shut down scope of work - 12 months forecast.
• Provide input and review the CAPEX budget – 12 months forecast (shutdown input).
• Provide input and review the OPEX budget – 12 months forecast (shutdown input).

Goods and Services Management:

• Goods preservation, storage, transportation, handling, and maintenance (PSTH&M).
  • Develop equipment spare preservation and maintenance plans.
  • Verify that equipment spare preservation and maintenance are performed through equipment auditing.
  • Goods quality management
    • Develop the equipment spare part quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
    • Verify the spare parts quality assurance is performed through auditing.
    • Provide input into the QA/QC requirements.
• Rotable spare management
  • Develop rotable equipment spare management methodology and requirements.
  • Develop rotable equipment spare quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
  • Verify the rotable process is being performed through auditing.
• Goods and services forecast.
  • Develop asset part consumption forecast.
  • Coordinate asset part procurement based on consumption forecast with Supply Chain.
  • Optimise asset spare part stockholding in conjunction with Supply Chain.
  • Review and identify asset-critical spares.
• Obsolescence Management
  • Manage the spare part obsolescence management plans.

Configuration Management:

• Develop a Configuration management plan.
• Verify configuration auditing for allocated assets.

Management of Engineering Change:

• Adhere to the Anglo American maintenance and engineering management of the change process.
• Review Management of Change risk mitigation actions for applicability and effectiveness
• Analyse the proposed change and provide recommendations.
• Ensure required master data updates associated with the engineering changes.

Asset Health Management:

• Design and specify asset health monitoring system requirements.
• Develop automated asset health monitoring logic based on engineering science.
• Use Assets Tactics process to develop and Implement maintenance strategy for Health Monitoring Systems.
• Active use of ConMon results and reports to inform and prioritise work using the Work Management routines (i.e. participation and involvement in work scheduling meetings).

Asset Integrity Management (Mobile plant):

• Design and specify Asset Integrity Management requirements.
• Provide inputs to CAPEX to execute an asset integrity improvement project for a moveable plant.

Analyse Reliability Performance:

• Define performance targets and KPIs for equipment reliability and availability.
• Establish and implement processes and systems to monitor compliance with work management KPIs.
• Develop a process to monitor and audit compliance with weekly schedules.
• Ensure compliance with maintenance tactics and plans by monitoring and auditing their implementation.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with statutory inspection requirements.
• Track and report on completion of corrective maintenance work orders.
• Develop and implement a process to manage corrective work requests.
• Monitor and analyse cost performance.
• Monitor and assess the health of assets.
• Coach and provide Reliability input into new work requests (Notification Approval support)

Defect Elimination:

• Conduct advanced RCA investigations.
• Review and approve RCA investigations and recommendations.
• Manage the implementation of RCA.

This role is in Engineering & Maintenance HME/Plant (ENG) department on a Band 6 (D-Upper) level reporting to the Section Manager Reliability.

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or BTech in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering (NQF7)
• A postgraduate qualification in Engineering or Asset Management, Reliability, or a related field (NQF8) is preferred
• SA Driver’s Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 6-8 years of relevant experience in Plant and HME operations.
• Abreast with Heavy Mobile Equipment developments in Engineering, Maintenance and Condition Monitoring techniques.
• Provides technical input into Maintenance Practices (Planning, Execution and Reliability).
• Understands the selection and application of equipment to suit operational requirements and provides technical support to solve complex problems.

Additional Information

Who we are?

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine.

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