Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Provide technical expertise, consultancy, initiative, and leadership to ensure continuous operation and certification of customer equipment by utilizing relevant digital technologies, maintenance information, and reports. Ensure customer and NOV success as key stakeholder of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program execution, Rigsentry (RS) development and equipment improvements.

Provide technical expertise, consultancy, initiative, and leadership to ensure continuous operation and certification of customer equipment by utilizing relevant digital technologies, maintenance information, and reports. Ensure customer and NOV success as key stakeholder of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program execution, Rigsentry (RS) development and equipment improvements.

• Utilize data analytics, condition monitoring, and maintenance analysis to determine and communicate status, reliability, and availability of NOV’s products in CBM programs.
• Ensure success of CBM programs by actively supporting Program Manager (PGM) and Project Manager (PM) as trusted advisor. Initiate risk analysis early and manage process of mitigation outside of PGM and PM domains e.g. towards product groups, class , sub supplier .
• Communicate with Product Engineering to maintain organization wide support for reliability, maintainability, and design of existing or new products throughout the entire life cycle of the assets.
• Provide input to identify reliability-related risks, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact operation .
• Work with Corporate groups on development of engineering solutions for asset management, collection of data, failure statistics or other information that may adversely affect operations
• Work with Maintenance & Reliability Engineering Manager to identify and establish department processes and assure continual developments
• Perform other work-related tasks as assigned.
• Comply with all NOV Company and HSE policies and procedures.

• Lead improvements on equipment maintenance, increasing reliability & availability
• Take responsibility, communicate, and manage design improvements on NOV equipment as a Maintenance & Reliability Subject Matter Expert ( SME) – based on data, field results and customer feedback.
• Recommend and contribute to Engineering solutions to prevent repetitive failures or critical failures, initiating and participating in Root Cause Analysis
• Create technical and equipment reliability plans, requirements, inspection, and certification scope
• Support PDM/PM to translate Class, Standard (ISO), OEM and maintenance product requirements into plans
• Review and approve certification requirements for equipment covered under programs
• Establish equipment certification templates linking requirements for data, models, and tolerances to ease certification process
• Create requirements with priorities for NOV Data Science and Analytics to develop, build and configure analytical software modules as directed by program requirements
• Analyze and evaluate the quality/value of the automation of manual inspection methods including improvement of instrumentation, tracking, communication, or overall cost picture.
• For approved R&D cases, initiate and organize developments and required certifications
• Collaborate with equipment responsible Engineers and product owners/ Standardization group/ other NOV departments to ensure quality of necessary information and documentation for program execution
• Review and manage program feedback, creating continuous feedback loops between internal & external organizations
• Deliver agreed KPIs

• Strong ability to analyze, systematize and conceptualize complex technical information. (Essential)
• Strong ability to express, present and advocate recommendations. (Essential)
• Desire to contribute to product, service, and equipment development (Essential)
• Prioritize and organize own workload (Essential)
• Ability to handle customers and internal stakeholders professionally (Essential)
• Available to travel either regionally or internationally, if required. (Desired)

• Self-motivated
• Analytical
• Team player
• Adaptable/dynamic
• Creative
• Detail/Decision-orientated

• Understanding of maintenance analytics theory and application
• Understanding of reliability theory
• IT literacy