Reliability Engineer

KBR; Sharjah; On-site; AED 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the oil and gas sector is seeking a Reliability Engineer with over 10 years of experience. The role involves designing maintenance strategies, conducting RCM studies, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance asset reliability. Candidates should possess strong communication skills, a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, and familiarity with CMMS tools. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work on critical engineering projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance and reliability engineering.
• Certifications related to Maintenance and Reliability (CMRP/CMRL) will be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop maintenance strategies for different assets.
• Perform RCM studies for equipment/systems and recommend maintenance strategies.
• Conduct design workshops with clients to develop maintenance strategies.

Skills

Maintenance Engineering

Reliability Engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

GE Meridium

Bentley APM

Job description

Title:
Reliability Engineer

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance and reliability engineering preferably in oil and gas/petrochemical domain. Experience in static and Rotating equipment, instrument and electrical system and understanding their failure modes and potential solutions is desirable.
• Shall be aware of all the key performance indicators related to reliability of plant operation and be able to support and drive those KPI's.
• Carried out minimum three to four end-to-end RCM studies.
• Experience in developing asset hierarchy, performing asset prioritization, developing failure modes and effects using reliability centered maintenance approach (RCM)
• Experience in performing Safety instrument function (SIF) analysis and LOPA, and HAZOP will be added advantage.
• Experience with operations, maintenance, pre-commissioning, commissioning and Hand-over activities is an advantage
• Experience in administering the Asset Lifecycle management procedures such as Asset criticality ranking, SAP Taxonomy, Asset Operating Limits [IOW], Asset maintenance development procedures, and Master data developments in SAP, Bill of Materials BOM in SAP, active SAP-PMs Implementation and effectiveness
• Hands-on experience in maintenance of equipment including the dismantling, assembly, and inspection of critical equipment (compressors, boiler feed pumps, generators, reformers, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, valves etc.)
• Knowledge in plant reliability and maintenance.
• Good understanding of CMMS and reliability software applications
• Knowledge in defining business processes related to reliability and maintenance for process plants
• Experience in analyzing the maintenance data from systems such as System 1, Smart Signal, etc. will be added advantage
• The primary role will be to design and develop maintenance strategies for different assets in the plant. The main activities are:
• Perform RCM, studies for equipment/systems and recommend maintenance strategies
• Conduct design workshops with client to develop maintenance strategies
• Develop failure modes, indicators to detect failure modes
• To prepare framework and methodology for criticality assessment and Reliability improvement program of clients' assets.
• To lead and Perform Asset Criticality Analysis.
• To collect all data for criticality assessment, Lead/conduct Asset Criticality assessment workshops, Compilation of workshop finding in suitable reports and populate the data in required format for uploading in SAP with supporting documents.
• Develop preventive and corrective maintenance plans for assets
• Shall initiate and conduct essential studies for facilities and operational asset improvements, while providing specialized technical service in relevant engineering disciplines, acts as a consultant on complex engineering problems, designs, and/or projects, coordinates with plant-wide teams.
• Responsible to adapt lessons learned from benchmark and safety cases identified from events, providing recommendations - in consultation with management to provide continuous assurance methodology is applied to sustain the health of Safety-Critical Equipment's concerning Total Reliability program are sufficient to mitigate any potential threats arising from changes in major hazard scenarios.
• Shall Work with multidisciplinary teams assigned to analyses specific integrity and performance analysis and suggest methods for the prevention of chronic failures. Support to review the Total Reliability program KPIs.
• Collaboratively work with team, peers, and client to successfully implement maintenance and reliability solution
• CMMS/EAM like SAP PM and APM tools like GE Meridium, Bentley APM
• Soft skills requirements including excellent written and verbal English communications skill with proven ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical individuals
• Willing to travel to site and stay for short as well as longer periods
• Build client relationships
• Should have worked in large teams and should be a good team player
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or relevant engineering with sound fundamentals and technical skills in his discipline is required.
• Certifications related to Maintenance and Reliability (CMRP/CMRL) will be added advantage
• The candidate should have training, experience, and/or certification as RCM facilitator and should be able to facilitate RCA, ACA and RCM process.