Reliability Engineer

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

• Safety Health and Environment
  • Consistently apply Safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site are paramount.
• Provide an environment for onsite teams to challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without repercussions.
  • Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks.
• Review and assess the impact of critical risks and monitor the effectiveness of critical controls relevant to the work area.
  • Ensure Statutory maintenance requirements are included in the Asset Tactics for allocated assets.
  • Ensure Safety Health and Environment (SHE) requirements are included in maintenance plans for all allocated assets.
  • Active participation in VFLs Risk Assessments and closeout of Safety Actions.
• Performance and Delivery
• Reliability Modelling:
  • Implement and maintain reliability block models of plant and equipment.
  • Conduct Reliability Availability Maintainability and Supportability (RAMS) analysis.
  • Refine and recommend reliability improvement opportunities with RAMS analysis.
• 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.
  • Implement 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:
  • Refine review and update equipment life cycle cost model.
  • Identify reliability improvement opportunities from life cycle cost modelling.
  • Implement asset management plans for critical assets.
  • Implement 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.
  • Maintain the maintenance readiness for new assets.
• Set Shutdown Service Strategy:
  • Refine review and update the shutdown scope of work 12month 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)
• Implement equipment spare preservation and maintenance plans.
• Verify that equipment spare preservation and maintenance are performed through equipment auditing.
• Goods quality management
• Implement the equipment spare part quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
• Verify that the spare parts quality assurance is performed through auditing.

Provide input into the QA/QC requirements.

• Rotable spare management
•  Implement rotable equipment spare management methodology and requirements.
• Implement rotable equipment spare quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
• Implement the rotable process that is being performed through auditing.
• Goods and services forecast.
• Implement 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
• Maintain the spare part obsolescence management plans.
• Configuration Management:
  • Implement and maintain the 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.
  • Analyse the proposed change and provide recommendations.
  • Update master data associated with the engineering changes.
• Asset Health Management:
  • Refine asset health monitoring system requirements.
  • Implement automated asset health monitoring logic based on engineering science.
• Asset Integrity Management (Mobile plant):
  • Implement 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.
  • Implement processes and systems to monitor compliance with work management KPIs.
  • Maintain the 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.
  • Implement and monitor a process to manage corrective work requests.
  • Monitor and analyse cost performance.
  • Monitor and assess the health of assets.
• 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.
• Coaching and Mentoring:
  • Mentor the Site Reliability Engineers.
  • Coach and mentor the Senior Planner and Scheduler.

This role is in Engineering & Maintenance (ENG) department on a band 6.11 level reporting to the 1. Section Engineer (Kolomela) 2. Section Manager (Sishen)

Qualifications :

• B Engineering or BTech in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering
• Certifications
• Prescribed
• Preferred
• SA Drivers License Code B

Technical Knowledge

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• 5 Years of operational experience in Mechanical Maintenance Reliability and Diagnostics.
• Experience in Plant and HME operations.
• Knowledgeable 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.

How to apply

To apply for this role please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime