Reliability Specialist

Reporting to the area superintendent the Reliability Specialist is accountable for providing technical support, diagnosis, repair and upgrading of plant rotating and stationary equipment.

In addition, the Reliability Specialist develops and implements maintenance strategies and predictive technologies to improve the production facilities, ensure safe operation, high equipment reliability/availability, cost effective maintenance, continuous improvement culture, and regulatory compliance.

**SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES & KEY ACTIVITIES**:

- Leads and is responsible for the execution of reliability excellence/maintenance program.
- Responsible for ranking the criticality of the assets under their care, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and for defining the proactive maintenance approaches that is cost-beneficial to the business.
- Identifies and implements predictive maintenance technologies.
- Administers programs, such as Thermography, vibration analysis, lube oil monitoring, for the area/site; Administration may include vendor selection, program scooping/scheduling, analysis review, and corrective action follow-up.
- Performs / supports operational event and equipment failure investigations to ensure that the root cause / causal factors have been identified, corrective actions prescribed, and follow-up monitoring conducted as applicable, to determine effectiveness.
- Conducts program and system/equipment audits on a periodic and as needed basis; Audits will generally be focused on safety, regulatory compliance, maintenance effectiveness, cost savings, and energy conservation.
- Participates in the planning, design review, value management and construction document development of new facilities and renovations.
- Performs life-cycle financial modeling of developed technical solutions.
- Constructs detailed technical proposals and draft bid documents.
- Supports commissioning activities for all upgrade, renovation, and construction projects which may include, but is not limited to, PM job plans, reviews for maintainability, critical spares, documentation, etc.
- Develop and maintain new “Key Performance Indicators" of equipment reliability.
- Works with counterparts at other locations for the overall improvement of reliability engineering and the sharing, importing/exporting, of best practices.

**ACCOUNTABILITY**

Performance of the Engineer in meeting identified accountabilities is evaluated on the following measures.
- PM schedule compliance
- Budget compliance
- PM Backlog man-hours
- Critical Equipment availability
- Number of breakdowns (Unplanned maintenance)
- Production equipment performance (By output volume levels)
- Equipment performance (with respect to quality)
- Mean Time Between Failure

**KEY RELATIONSHIPS**

Reports on a line basis to Area Superintendent

**Relationship with Internal**:

- Operation supervision and Operation planning.
- Maintenance Supervisors.
- Stores and purchasing personnel
- Engineering personnel.
- Planner/Schedulers.
- Interfaces with Safety and Environmental resources for specific concerns.

**Relationship with External**:

- Works closely with Assigned Outside services supervisors.
- Environmental resources for specific concerns.