Asset Reliability Engineering Manager-Pipeline Jobs

Job Advert Summary

• This role involves implementing modern reliability programs, improving maintenance strategies, and addressing risks ahead of time. As a leader, you will oversee the Maximo maintenance system, work with the operations team, provide quarterly OEE reports, and find ways to improve critical assets.

Minimum Requirements

• Formal engineering qualifications: BSc Eng, B Eng or equivalent (required).
• Professional Registration: Registered (or eligible to register) with ECSA (required).

Job Experience

• 6 years in engineering or infrastructure maintenance management.
• 3 years in the water sector.
• 5 years in management.

Desirable Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field (preferred).
• 10 years in engineering or infrastructure maintenance management (preferred).
• 10 years in management (preferred).

Primary Duties

• Lead and manage all section activities to achieve the best lifecycle performance for assets.
• Develop, prepare, carry out, and manage the section business plan to support the department and division plans.
• Create and maintain standards and strategies to improve asset performance, availability, maintenance, deterioration rates, and lifespan.
• Design and implement a full reliability program, including predictive and preventive maintenance, failure analysis, and ongoing improvement efforts.
• Manage and improve the Maximo maintenance system, ensuring correct data entry, good work order handling, and smooth integration with the reliability program.
• Work with Electrical, Mechanical, Process, and Civil Reliability Engineers to align strategies, share best practices, and ensure overall system reliability.

Manage Staff and Coordinate with Other Disciplines In:

• Assessing asset conditions and measuring performance to set standards and schedules.
• Optimizing and auditing maintenance activities.
• Turning assessment results into recommendations for projects or maintenance work.
• Conducting risk assessments on equipment and processes, and creating strategies to reduce risks for each category to build system strength.
• Using data analytics tools to review performance metrics, reliability data, and equipment health. Prepare reports for improvements in specific categories.
• Developing and preparing the annual budget for asset management, and handling financial controls.
• Managing staff growth through performance monitoring, coaching, mentoring, career planning, and succession.
• Leading investigations into equipment failures or performance issues, including root cause analysis for Electrical, Mechanical, Process, and Civil categories.
• Guiding technical progress and using the best technology for all asset categories.
• Managing and monitoring the section’s budget, and taking action on any differences.
• Providing leadership to reliability and maintenance teams, building a culture of improvement and knowledge sharing. Create training programs for each category’s needs.

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, such as reliability-centred maintenance (RCM), failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Skills in creating and applying maintenance strategies to cut downtime, lower costs, and extend asset life.
• Financial and economic principles, including life cycle costing.
• Techniques for condition assessment and performance measurement.
• Asset rehabilitation technology.
• Principles of plant maintenance and reliability.
• Principles of asset management.

Skills

• Networking skills.
• Spatial analysis and interpretation.
• Project management.
• Decision making.
• Planning and organizing.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Conceptual thinking, analytical, and coordinating skills.
• People management.

Attitude

• Customer service focus.
• Critical evaluation.
• Self-motivated.
• Problem solving.
• Highly motivated and innovative.
• Diligent and performance-driven.
• Results-driven.