Reliability Engineer

Job Description:

The primary role will be to design and develop maintenance strategies for different assets in the plant. The main activities are:

1. Perform RCM studies for equipment/systems and recommend maintenance strategies.
2. Conduct design workshops with clients to develop maintenance strategies.
3. Develop failure modes and indicators to detect failure modes.
4. Prepare framework and methodology for criticality assessment and Reliability improvement program of clients’ assets.
5. Lead and perform Asset Criticality Analysis.
6. Collect all data for criticality assessment, lead/conduct Asset Criticality assessment workshops, compile workshop findings in suitable reports, and populate the data in required format for uploading in SAP with supporting documents.
7. Develop preventive and corrective maintenance plans for assets.
8. Initiate and conduct essential studies for facilities and operational asset improvements while providing specialized technical service in relevant engineering disciplines, acting as a consultant on complex engineering problems, designs, and/or projects, coordinating with plant-wide teams.
9. Adapt lessons learned from benchmark and safety cases identified from events, providing recommendations in consultation with management to ensure continuous assurance methodology is applied to sustain the health of Safety-Critical Equipment concerning the Total Reliability program.
10. Work with multidisciplinary teams assigned to analyze specific integrity and performance analysis and suggest methods for the prevention of chronic failures. Support to review the Total Reliability program KPIs.
11. Collaboratively work with team, peers, and clients to successfully implement maintenance and reliability solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or relevant engineering with sound fundamentals and technical skills in his discipline is required.
• 10+ years of experience in maintenance and reliability engineering, preferably in the oil and gas/petrochemical domain.
• Experience in static and rotating equipment, instrument and electrical systems, and understanding their failure modes and potential solutions is desirable.
• Shall be aware of all key performance indicators related to reliability of plant operation and be able to support and drive those KPIs.
• Carried out a minimum of three to four end-to-end RCM studies.
• Experience in developing asset hierarchy, performing asset prioritization, and developing failure modes and effects using the reliability-centered maintenance approach (RCM).
• Experience in performing Safety Instrument Function (SIF) analysis and LOPA, and HAZOP will be an 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.
• 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 maintenance data from systems such as System 1, Smart Signal, etc. will be an added advantage.
• High-level implementation experience or knowledge in two or more of the following software products: CMMS/EAM like SAP PM and APM tools like GE Meridium, Bentley APM.
• Certifications related to Maintenance and Reliability (CMRP/CMRL) will be an added advantage.
• The candidate should have training, experience, and/or certification as RCM facilitator and should be able to facilitate RCA, ACA, and RCM processes.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills 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.