Reliability Electrical Lead Technician

UNITED STEEL INDUSTRIAL CO.; Al Khiran; On-site; KWD 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

UNITED STEEL INDUSTRIAL CO. in Kuwait seeks an experienced Electrical Maintenance professional to perform condition-based monitoring across plants, including vibration analysis, thermography, and ultrasound inspection.

You will diagnose CBM data, document failure modes, and support RCA investigations, while ensuring SAP-PM data integrity and reliability logs. The role requires a technical certificate or higher in electrical disciplines, with 3–7+ years in heavy industry, and a strong focus on

Qualifications

• Required: Vocational/Technical Certificate, Diploma, or Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Maintenance, Industrial Electrical Systems, Instrumentation, Electronics, or related discipline.
• Preferred: 7 years electrical maintenance experience in steel or heavy industry (for Diploma/Technician track).
• Experience in condition monitoring, equipment inspection, and reliability activities in steel plants or similar industries.

Responsibilities

• Carry-out condition-based monitoring activities across plants (coordination and data collection).
• Provide diagnoses based on CBM data analysis for common patterns.
• Document failure modes on site and collect physical evidence.
• Support RCA investigations and reliability audits.
• Validate abnormal trends before escalation and confirm monitoring alerts.
• Ensure measurement points are correctly recorded in SAP-PM.
• Maintain historical reliability logs and contribute to weekly/monthly/annual reports.

Skills

Condition monitoring

Vibration analysis

Thermography

Ultrasound inspection

Electrical maintenance

Troubleshooting

Safety procedures

Documentation

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related

Diploma or Vocational Certificate in Electrical Maintenance

Job description

• Carry-out condition-based monitoring activities (coordination and data collection), such as vibration analysis, thermography, and ultrasound analysis to detect early failures, in all plants.
• Provide diagnoses based on analysis of CBM data collection, for common patterns.
• Document failure modes on site.
• Collect physical evidence (photos, measurements, parts condition).
• Support RCA investigations.
• Confirm condition monitoring alerts.
• Support shutdown reliability assessments.
• Ensure measurement points are correctly recorded in SAP-PM.
• Maintain historical reliability logs.
• Support Weibull data collection.

Job Responsibilities:

• Carry-out condition-based monitoring activities (coordination and data collection), such as vibration analysis, thermography, and ultrasound analysis to detect early failures, in all plants.
• Provide diagnoses based on analysis of CBM data collection, for common patterns.
• Document failure modes on site.
• Collect physical evidence (photos, measurements, parts condition).
• Support RCA investigations.
• Validate abnormal trends before escalation.
• Confirm condition monitoring alerts.
• Support shutdown reliability assessments.
• Ensure measurement points are correctly recorded in SAP-PM.
• Maintain historical reliability logs.
• Support Weibull data collection.

• Prepare condition-based monitoring activities reports.

• Support Reliability Engineers in preparing weekly, monthly and annual reports.

• Support Reliability Engineers in conducting annual audit in all plants, using the Reliability assessment grid.

• Support Reliability Engineers in conducting work quality audits during shutdowns.

• Support Reliability Engineers in the budget preparation with technical information and analyses.

Required Qualifications:

• Vocational/Technical Certificate, Diploma, or Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Maintenance, Industrial Electrical Systems, Instrumentation, Electronics, or a related discipline.

Preferred Experience:

• Vocational/Technical Certificate: Minimum 7 years of electrical maintenance experience in steel industry or heavy industry operations.
• Diploma: Minimum 5 years of electrical maintenance experience in steel industry or heavy industry operations.
• Bachelor's Degree: Minimum 3 years of electrical maintenance experience in steel industry or heavy industry operations.

Relevant Experience may include:

• Experience performing condition monitoring, equipment inspection, and equipment condition assessment activities in steel plants or similar heavy industrial environments.
• Prior experience guiding technicians in steel plants, rolling mills, or similar continuous process industries.
• Prior experience supporting reliability improvement activities, equipment diagnostics, and maintenance teams in continuous process industries.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Ability to support condition monitoring and reliability assessment activities.
• Ability to support inspection, condition assessment, and troubleshooting of electrical equipment.
• Ability to perform and interpret condition monitoring activities including vibration monitoring, thermography, ultrasound inspection, and other diagnostic techniques.
• Ability to identify equipment abnormalities, performance deviations, and potential failure indicators, and support corrective actions.
• Ability to coordinate and guide technicians during reliability inspections, condition monitoring activities, and field data collection.
• Ability to verify inspection quality, measurement accuracy, and compliance with reliability and maintenance standards.
• Effective communication and coordination with Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Supervisors, Technicians, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to support maintenance teams during breakdowns, shutdowns, equipment assessments, and reliability improvement activities.
• Strong adherence to Safety Standards, SOPs, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), and emergency procedures.