Reliability Specialist, Core Systems

**This is Us**:
We enrich life through the sustainable extraction and refinement of minerals to indispensable products and through our working environment, which is unique. Because it stands for everything that really matters in life: Trust, team spirit and meaningfulness for 11,000 employees at 50 locations on five continents. Welcome to K + S.

**Your Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Senior Reliability Specialist, the Core Systems Reliability Specialist guides efforts to ensure the reliability and maintainability of electrical, instrumentation, and automation equipment, networks, and safety systems. Will define, design, develop and refine the _Asset Maintenance Plan_ including value-added preventive maintenance tasks, spare parts strategies, preservation strategies, and effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems. Will own and maintain the Plant FRACAS process for plant core systems. Analyze and trend data to raise alerts on parts and equipment health for timely action by maintenance. Design and report on key performance indicators for critical assets. Will conduct FMEAs on new equipment based on criticality and constantly review existing FMEAS for any change in FMEA key assumptions. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Monitor and audit reliability initiatives and report out on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for high criticality and Bad Actor assets. Report on major risks to critical assets and facilitate the process of mitigating those risks in collaboration with Supervisors, Planners, Plant Engineers, and Safety
- Own the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) facilitation function and be responsible for ensuring the information is correct, documented and stored in a structured way and is accessible on demand
- Conduct Root Cause Analyses (RCA) to mitigate the risk of repetitive failures
- Create, implement, and continuously improve Maintenance and Spare Part strategies for core system assets (Instrumentation, Electrical, and Automation), inclusive of:

- Establishment of Functional Location (FLOC) structure in SAP
- Equipment criticality analyses
- Facilitation and documentation of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis
- Establishment and upkeep of Bill of Material (BOM) Structure
- Request of any Material-Numbers required associated with the Maintenance strategy, including definition of min/max stock and confirmation with Materials Management (MM) that everything is set-up properly
- Development of Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) strategies, including all PM specific work instructions, templates, and checklists
- Own the process of populating failure data in SAP, including corrections on failure codes, breakdown times and malfunction start and end times
- Support (as required) maintenance and reliability program initiatives

**Benefits**:
**We enrich your life**:

- By living our common K+S values across all our locations in the world: We are optimistic about our future, collaborative in building it, and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we aim to dig deeper and reach higher. We remain agile in an ever-changing world. We are innovative, turning obstacles into opportunities - and we do it all in ways that are safe and sustainable, protecting future generations.
- We are committed to being a company where every employee can contribute, grow and thrive, and where we reflect the diverse communities in which we live and work. We are working toward a truly inclusive environment, because we know that the amazing array of differences in our backgrounds, competencies, experiences, race, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, identity and their intersections is key to the longevity, sustainability and growth of our organization.
- In a career with K+S Potash Canada (KSPC), you can look forward to:

- Good People and Great Culture
- Be part of a team committed to building an innovative and diverse culture. KSPC is growing our business, delivering exciting new opportunities, and giving back to the communities where we live and work.
- Challenge and Growth
- We support your growth and potential through professional development, training, and a robust performance recognition program.
- Valuable Compensation
- Our total target compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the market. We have a Pay-for-Performance philosophy that includes two components: fixed (base) pay, and a short-term incentive (bonus) that rewards employees for their contributions towards corporate, team and individual successes.
- Supporting Benefits
- Our comprehensive, employer-paid benefits program includes Life, Disability, Health and Dental, as well as competitive Retirement benefits, Employee and Family Assistance Program, paid work time to help out in your community (volunteer with a spor