Reliability & Quality Assurance Engineer

Dante Personnel Recruitment; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 480,000; Part time

Job summary

Dante Personnel Recruitment is seeking a Quality Assurance & Reliability Engineer for a leading engineering and technical services company in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. The role focuses on maintenance, reliability engineering, root cause analysis and continuous improvement for turbomachinery and diesel systems.

Ideal candidates hold a mechanical engineering qualification with 3–5 years in a maintenance/reliability environment and have experience with RCA, FMEA/FMECA, and quality assurance

Qualifications

• 3–5 years’ experience in maintenance, reliability or rotating equipment environments.
• Experience implementing maintenance strategies and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Experience conducting failure investigations and root cause analyses.
• Exposure to quality assurance and non-conformance management processes.
• FMEA and FMECA methodologies; familiarity with 5 Why and Ishikawa analyses; Fault Tree Analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the Non-Conformance Report (NCR) database.
• Schedule, coordinate, and conduct internal NCR investigations and audits.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations for machine failures and deviations.
• Apply RCA methodologies including 5 Why, Fishbone (Ishikawa), Fault Tree Analysis and related techniques.
• Record failures, corrective actions and recommended next steps.
• Collaborate with Maintenance to identify reliability improvement opportunities.
• Develop maintenance strategies for equipment lacking formal strategies.
• Conduct and facilitate FMEA and FMECA studies.
• Review and optimize maintenance strategies to improve plant reliability and equipment performance.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Root cause analysis

FMEA/FMECAs

Quality assurance

Education

Mechanical Engineering qualification (National Diploma, B-Tech or Degree)

Job description

Dante Personnel Recruitment is seeking a Quality Assurance & Reliability Engineer for a leading engineering and technical services company in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. The role focuses on maintenance, reliability engineering, root cause analysis and continuous improvement for turbomachinery and diesel systems.

Ideal candidates hold a mechanical engineering qualification with 3–5 years in a maintenance/reliability environment and have experience with RCA, FMEA/FMECA, and quality assurance