Specialist Reliability Engineer Plant

As our 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 inthefield assessment of work practices safety compliance and workforce capabilities
  • Active participation in VFLs Risk Assessments and closeout of Safety Actions (when applicable).
  • Authority:
  • Stop unsafe work in any area not just in your area. We are safety leaders.
  • Issue safetyrelated instructions to any employees or contractors at the workplace.
  • Initiate action including training against subordinates and contractors for their role in unsafe behaviour.
  • Performance and Delivery
  • 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 5year running critical asset replacement plan as input to the 5year 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 assetcritical 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.
  • Own the defect register.
• Communities of Practice (CoP):
  • Participate in CoP activities.
  • Share reliability work and initiatives with CoP.
• People and Teams:
  • Communicate effectively with team members to ensure everyone is on the same page by providing information actively listening and responding to feedback.
  • Establish clear expectations and goals for the team to ensure that everyone is working towards the same objectives and that progress can be measured and tracked over time.
  • When changes to the plan are necessary handle them in a way that minimises disruption to the team and keeps everyone focused on the end goal.
  • Monitor performance against the plan to ensure progress and promptly address any issues or roadblocks. This includes identifying areas for improvement and acting to make the necessary changes.
  • Set and enforce rules and standards of behaviour and address performance or conduct issues.
  • Providing team members with training to ensure they have the skills and knowledge necessary to perform their roles effectively through onthejob training mentoring or other forms of development.
  • Identify staffing needs and ensure that the right people are in the right roles to support the teams objectives.
  • Manage the talent pool of employees to ensure that the team has the right mix of skills and experience to achieve its goals. Identify highperforming employees and develop plans to retain and promote them. Identify areas where additional skills or experience are needed and take action to recruit or develop employees with those capabilities.
• Authority:
  • Share information at appropriate forums.
  • Introduce change following business needs.
  • Prescribe critical tasks and measure performance.
  • Enforce discipline to ensure conditions conducive to work.
  • Develop or ensure the development of role requirements.
  • Select and appoint staff to role requirements.
• Budget and Cost Control Management:
  • Ensure compliance with the budget for the area of responsibility.
  • Evaluate and approve cost impacts in the area of responsibility and revise the budget accordingly.
  • Identify communicate and execute potential costreduction initiatives.
• Authority:
  • Generate authorisation for expenditures.
  • Revise budget after receiving appropriate authorisations.
  • Take necessary action to correct misallocations.

This role is in Engineering & Maintenance HME/Plant (ENG) department on a band 6.12 level reporting to the Section Manager Reliability

Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or BTech in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering) (NQF7)
• A postgraduate qualification in Engineering or Asset Management Reliability or a related field (NQF8) Advantageous
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 68 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 worldclass 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.

We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is reimagining mining to improve peoples lives.

How we are committed to your safety

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a days work. To make that happen we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that were also continually investing in new technologies from drones to data analytics that are helping to make mining safer.

Inclusion and Diversity

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime