Reliability Engineer: Asset Performance & Maintenance

Veolia Environmental Services; Wellington; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Professional growth and development

Stable employment

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Veolia Australia and New Zealand is seeking a Reliability Engineer to improve asset performance across wastewater infrastructure in the Wellington Region. You will apply RCM, FMEA, RCA and lifecycle asset management to reduce downtime and maintenance costs.

You will work with operations, maintenance and asset teams to deliver reliability improvements, data-driven reports and proactive maintenance strategies in a complex contract environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Asset Management or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop reliability improvement plans for critical assets.
• Identify reliability risks, recurring failures and opportunities to reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs.
• Develop and maintain asset criticality assessments.
• Review and optimise preventive and predictive maintenance programmes.
• Facilitate RCM, FMEA, maintenance strategy and maintenance optimisation reviews.
• Lead or support investigations into significant, recurring or high-consequence equipment failures.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis using methods like 5 Whys, fishbone, fault tree and causal factor analysis.
• Develop, monitor and close out corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyse data from CMMS, SCADA, historians and condition monitoring systems.
• Develop reliability reports, dashboards and practical recommendations.
• Monitor asset availability, reliability, maintainability, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance compliance, backlog and unplanned downtime.
• Support asset replacement, renewal, upgrade, capital works, commissioning and handover.
• Assist with critical spares strategies and shutdown planning.
• Provide technical support during equipment failures and abnormal operating conditions.
• Support continual improvement of Asset Management System aligned with ISO 55001.
• Promote proactive maintenance and continuous improvement culture in Wellington Region.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance management

Asset management

Risk assessment

RCM

FMEA

RCA

Condition monitoring

Data analysis

Problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Asset Management or related discipline

Tools

CMMS

SCADA

P&ID interpretation

Job description

Veolia Australia and New Zealand is seeking a Reliability Engineer to improve asset performance across wastewater infrastructure in the Wellington Region. You will apply RCM, FMEA, RCA and lifecycle asset management to reduce downtime and maintenance costs.

You will work with operations, maintenance and asset teams to deliver reliability improvements, data-driven reports and proactive maintenance strategies in a complex contract environment.