Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Support the mechanical maintenance department
• Advise and support the mechanical maintenance supervisors during plant upsets, equipment failure and shutdowns with regards to material selection, best practices and international standards.
• Develop and implement a process to continuously evaluate equipment reliability and set up a system for sustainable improvement of equipment reliability in close cooperation with the plant asset manager and maintenance manager.
• Set up a sustainable work process and relevant procedures to maintain and improve the site piping classes.
• Set up a set of standard mechanical specifications to support the process engineer and the maintenance staff in purchasing new equipment.
• Support the process engineer, inspection department and the purchasing group during the entire process of purchasing new equipment, ie engineering phase, vendor selection, documentation review and approval, intermediate inspections and factory acceptance tests.
• Develop mechanical maintenance policy and strategy in close cooperation with the maintenance manager .
• Analyse major or recurring problems and propose solutions to the maintenance manager.
• Audit existing suppliers on a regular base with regards to their adherence to high client HSEQ and technical standards in close cooperation with the purchasing group.
• Select, audit and approve new suppliers or technologies.
• Develop and keep up to date of the technical documentation and procedures about the plants and others give instructions on their use.
• Define, control and improve maintenance KPI’s
• HSE excellence
• Assure legal compliance, safety and integrity of the installation
• Assure proper documentation of maintenance activities and history of the installation
• Stimulate employees’ safety awareness continuously and invite them to participate in improvement
• Promote and comply with 20 SHE Principles.
• Train and exchange lessons learned from incidents
• High reliability of the plant
• Determine the maintenance planning in the medium term, with a good balance between preventive and curative actions.
• Analyse production losses when due to failure of equipment’s
• Prioritise and decide on repairs, improvements and preventive maintenance to assure plant’s capacity and reliability.
• Promote innovation, maintenance and continuous improvement within the unit.
• Active participation in “management of change”
• Fixed costs
• Assure compliance with fixed costs and maintenance budget
• Timely budget significant expenditures such as turn-arounds in order unexpectedly exceed budgets
• Discuss and disclose contracts with contractors, and follow-up of costs. Participate in the annual assessment of suppliers and contractors.
• Evaluate material stock requirements in order to assure high reliability of the plant at a minimum work capital
• Be involved in site strategy and important projects such as
• Long term view
• Debottlenecking and/or growth potential
• Capex plan. Propose improvement projects.

Requirements

• Level of education & Experience in general
• Civil Engineer or equivalent through experience
• Min. 5 years of experience in and mechanical engineering and/or maintenance techniques
• Language skills: Dutch, English and French
• Technical skills
• Broad technical knowledge and some understanding of chemical processes
• Strong analytical problem solver and trouble shooter
• Conceptual and strategic thinking
• Project management expertise
• Knowledge of SAP is an advantage
• Behavioural skills
• Strong leader skills
• Integrity to maintain high HSE skills
• Open minded, facilitator between different disciplines
• Team-oriented and team stimulator, strong communicator
• Strong affinity for human related matters, creating opportunities for personal growth
• Good self-management skills