Reliability Engineer HME Load & Haul

Company Description

We have an exciting opportunity for Reliability Engineer. The purpose of this role is to advise on HME equipment reliability and improvement programs, ensuring safe operation and effective maintenance of allocated assets through expertise in reliability engineering.

Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re‑imagine mining to improve people’s lives", delivering the metals and minerals that make modern life possible – from mobile phones to medicines.

We produce high-grade iron ore, the key component in steel widely used in construction and manufacturing across the world. Our activities include all aspects – exploration; mining; processing and blending; shipping; marketing and selling. In South Africa, we have mining operations in the Northern Cape province, as well as a head office in Rosebank, Gauteng, and a port operation in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape.

As Reliability Engineer your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Consistently apply Safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks.

Reliability Modelling:

• Implement and maintain reliability block models of plant and equipment.
• Conduct Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability (RAMS) analysis.
• Refine and recommend reliability improvement opportunities with RAMS analysis.

Asset Tactics Development:

• Review the asset register and assess asset criticality to determine critical assets.
• Review the effectiveness of asset tactics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure the implementation of asset tactics as maintenance plans in SAP.
• Recommend updates to asset tactics as maintenance plans in SAP.
• Implement and update service strategy scope of work for when the equipment is operational – 12 months forecast.
• Provide input and review the CAPEX budget – 12 months forecast (asset tactics input).
• Provide input and review the OPEX budget – 12 months forecast (asset tactics input).

Equipment Lifecycle Cost Modelling:

• Refine, review and update the equipment life cycle cost model.
• Identify reliability improvement opportunities from life cycle cost modelling.
• Implement asset management plans for critical assets.
• Implement and maintain a 5-year running critical asset replacement plan as input to the 5-year CAPEX budget.

Operational Readiness:

• Provide operational readiness inputs and support for new assets.
• Maintain the maintenance readiness for new assets.

Set Shutdown Service Strategy:

• Refine, review, and update the shutdown scope of work - 12-month forecast.
• Provide input and review the CAPEX budget – 12 months forecast (shutdown input).
• Provide input and review the OPEX budget – 12 months forecast (shutdown input).

Goods preservation, storage, transportation, handling, and maintenance (PSTH&M):

• Implement equipment spare preservation and maintenance plans.
• Verify that equipment spare preservation and maintenance are performed through equipment auditing.
• Goods quality management
• Implement the equipment spare part quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
• Verify that the spare parts quality assurance is performed through auditing.
• Provide input into the QA/QC requirements.
• Rotable spare management
• Implement rotable equipment spare management methodology and requirements.
• Implement rotable equipment spare quality assurance and quality confirmation requirements.
• Implement the rotable process that is being performed through auditing.
• Goods and services forecast.
• Implement asset part consumption forecast.
• Coordinate asset part procurement based on consumption forecast with Supply Chain.
• Optimise asset spare part stockholding in conjunction with Supply Chain.
• Review and identify asset-critical spares.
• Obsolescence Management
• Maintain the spare part obsolescence management plans.

Configuration Management:

• Implement and maintain the Configuration management plan.
• Verify configuration auditing for allocated assets.

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