Reliability and Maintenance Consultant

**Description**

GM BluePlan Engineering and GEI are now one. We have joined together and become Canada’s premier consulting firm in providing multi-disciplined engineering and environmental services to a range of private and public sector clients, both domestically and abroad.

**Your role at GEI.**

The Hamilton Office is seeking a Reliability and Maintenance Consultant. The Reliability and Maintenance Consultant will provide technical leadership and support to a variety of asset management, reliability, and maintenance projects within the Asset Management practice. This position requires an engaged individual who is looking for an opportunity to build, contribute and advance the maintenance and reliability journeys of our clients. This position is responsible to perform tasks such as criticality analysis, asset strategy development, reliability analysis, business process mapping, and change management support.

**Essential Responsibilities & Duties**
- Work as a team member to design, develop, and implement maintenance and reliability programs, projects, and initiatives for our clients.
- Asset Hierarchy: Build functional asset hierarchies.
- Asset Criticality and Risk: Build asset criticality and risk assessment frameworks and facilities their execution.
- Asset Strategy Development: Develop optimized proactive tasks to manage asset failure.
- Provide input to other asset management projects like asset management plans, risk management, and typical maintenance practices.
- Assess asset history to identify reliability improvement opportunities. Identify root causes of failures.
- Business Process Mapping: Documenting current practices and recommending best-in-class approaches to practices.
- Lead maintenance and reliability practice maturity assessments
- Lead data analysis and optimization of proactive maintenance programs
- Conduct analysis and optimization of spare parts; rationalizing spare parts recommended for new design projects, and existing asset portfolios.
- Lead maintainability and reliability reviews of designs, including recommendations for improvement.
- Analyze and provide recommendations for the effective use of EAM/CMMS systems.
- Coordinate and manage the implementation of EAM/CMMS systems.

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Critical thinking and detail-oriented individual with proven problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated initiative, self-motivation, problem-solving skills, and project management skills.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and cross-functionally with technical personnel.
- Results-focused, providing solutions with a return-on-investment (ROI) mentality.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, a trade ticket, or other relevant experience in a maintenance or reliability role.
- Relevant certifications (CRL, CMRP, CRE, etc.) would be an asset.
- Field experience in a maintenance, planning, scheduling, or reliability role would be an asset.
- Knowledge or experience in industries such as water treatment, wastewater treatment, manufacturing, or chemical processing would be an asset.
- Experience in the use, benefits, and limitations of condition-based or predictive maintenance technologies such as vibration, ultrasonic, or infrared would be an asset.
- Experience with facilitating Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
- Experience with facilitating Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Extensive, hands-on experience using a CMMS system.
- Knowledge or experience in computer programming (Python and/or SQL) would be an asset.

**We are GEI.**

Some of the world’s most pressing problems - from climate change to sustainable development, to critical infrastructure and the future of our energy supply - need our brightest and diverse minds working together to create safer, more resilient communities for tomorrow.

We are technical experts, collaborators, and entrepreneurs who draw from diverse backgrounds to solve our clients’ most complex challenges.

With nearly 60 offices across North America, we offer a range of engineering, science, and technical consulting services. Our range of expertise, project types, and culture make us the choice for top talent in the AEC industry.

In 2023, GEI merged with GM BluePlan, an Ontario-based engineering, management, and technology consulting company. The merger adds GM BluePlan’s nationally recognized expertise in asset management and infrastructure planning to the GEI family, furthering our growth and expansion in Canada.

**Employee-owned. Employee-focused.**

As a 100% employee-owned company, our employees support our flat leadership structure, have a say in how our business operates and benefit from our financial success. We are committed to employee growth with career development opportunities, competitive total rewards, a well-being program, flexible work arrangements and more. Our company culture is driven by our 4 Cs - we are Client-Centered, Curious, Collaborative, and Commu