Front Line Reliability Specialist

**Basic Function**:
Petro-Canada Lubricants Inc. (PCLI), an HF Sinclair company is seeking a Front Line Reliability Specialist. Reporting to the Team Leader of Reliability, the Reliability Specialist will be directly involved in daily proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of assets in multi-disciplinary environment, supporting breakdown maintenance activity and providing reliability input into work scope and prioritization. The Reliability Engineer/Specialist will be stewarding predictive/preventative programs activities. The Reliability Engineer/Specialist will lead or support asset failure Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), provide recommendations for improvement and support corrective actions. Key stakeholders are the Cross Functional Team (CFT) Leaders, Process Operators and Coordinators and, Inspectors and Maintenance Coordinators. Key supporting roles are Rotating and Static equipment specialists, Instrument and Electrical specialists and, Technical services (chemical engineers) and Automation specialists.

**Job Duties**:

- Determine condition of equipment for suitability to continue to run and potential for breakdown.
- Work with specialists to develop scope of repair of equipment.
- Predictive and Preventive:

- Regular monitoring of critical assets, understand cause(s) in consultation with stakeholders and supporting roles. Identify corrective actions, report through various channels and SAP and help prioritize against other competing priorities.
- Steward the performance of predictive/preventative programs for assets in their respective area.
- Steward continuous improvement in predictive and preventive maintenance strategies.
- Lead the identification, planning and implementation of reliability improvement initiatives
- Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for events impacting asset reliability
- Support Turnaround/Outage scope development (ensuring asset proactive repairs ensure the expected level of reliability), planning and execution (e.g. Shutdown support for equipment, QA/QC for repairs, Startup support)
- Support scope development, planning and execution for corrective maintenance repairs. Identify spare part requirement to support maintenance work.
- Lead the development of Management of Change (MOC) processes for Maintenance changes
- Lead the development and implementation of asset strategies
- Contribute to the preparation of annual maintenance/expense/capital budgets and Long Range Plan (LRP).
- Provide reliability input into capital project design
- Provide reliability input into Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) reviews
- Communicate improvement initiative monthly progress to Area Team and the Team Leader Reliability. Identify successes, challenges and plans for future months.

Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their supervisor, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion

**Experience**:

- 3-5 years of related refinery experience in multi-disciplinary environment.
- Rotating equipment: Strong understanding of work principal of fans, blowers, compressors, pumps and steam turbines. Strong understanding of typical components used for rotating equipment and understand drawings and performance curves. Strong understanding of reliability and maintenance practices. Strong understanding of lubrication systems. Good understanding of vibration monitoring
- Static equipment: Good understanding of boilers, heaters, exchangers, piping and, joints (flanged and welded)
- Static equipment: High-level understanding of function of separators, columns and reactors.
- Instrument and electrical equipment: High-level understanding of various instruments and electrical equipment used in a typical refinery is preferred
- General understanding of refinery operation is an asset
- Root Cause Analysis and Process Hazard Analysis is also preferred

**Education Level**:

- Bachelor Degree in Engineering Mechanical / Electromechanical / Mechatronics or a Technologist Diploma in Mechanical / Electromechanical / Mechatronics with additional years of relevant experience

**Required Skills**:

- Strong focus on personal and process safety
- Excellent troubleshooting and critical analysis skill
- Excellent team player in multi-disciplinary environment
- Ability to quickly learn new skills
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize efficiently
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to determine probability of failure to support risk ranking of a failure by using consequence of failure and risk matrix.
- Generally computer savvy. Working knowledge of Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint
- General understanding and working knowledge of SAP/maintenance management system and workflow is an asset
- Function location, material master, bill or material
- Notification, work orders, purchase orders

**Work Conditions**:

- High degree of activity - high stress when addressing significant incident and emergency activities
- Climbing on high structures

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