Reliability Expert

Air Liquide

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Secunda - South Africa

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 20 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW

As our Reliability Expert you will be the essential driver of Operational Excellence for our Primary Production Bulk and Onsites activities across the dynamic Africa Middle East & India cluster. You will apply your deep reliability expertise to support site performance and will be directly responsible for driving key Reliability programs including the implementation of effective close the loop methodologies. Success in this role hinges on your ability to collaborate seamlessly with Facility Managers site-based teams and fellow experts across Maintenance Asset and Technology within Cluster Operations to ensure optimal reliability and continuous improvement.

Asset Performance Management:

  • Develop and implement Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategies Preventive Maintenance (PM) optimization and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) techniques.

  • Manage and improve the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) for critical assets.

  • Oversee the Asset Criticality Analysis to focus resources on the most important equipment.

Failure Analysis & Mitigation:

  • Lead and facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations for significant equipment failures to identify and eliminate systemic issues.

  • Set and Report smart reliability key performance indicators with Industrial performance monitoring team

  • Implement Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) during design and operational phases.

  • Capitalize on events to feed the reliability flash process and close the loop

  • Conduct regular RCA audits capitalize with sharing improvement opportunities with entities

  • Track RCA actions and follow up on status and closure facilitate follow up to accelerate compliance

Capital Project Support:

  • Participate in the design and commissioning of new equipment and systems to ensure maintainability and reliability are built-in (e.g. specifying reliable components conducting Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis).

  • Ensure adherence to reliability standards codes and best practices.

Continuous Improvement:

  • Provide technical support to maintenance and operations teams on reliability issues.

  • Conduct Bad Actor program analysis and develop corrective action plans.

  • Create Reliability Posters and communicate with all entities for Reliability or programs awareness

Are you a MATCH

Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical Electrical Industrial or equivalent).
  • 5 Years of experience in PRM
  • Industrial Experience (Operations or Maintenance Management)
  • Maintenance and Reliability experience

Technical experience:

  • In-depth knowledge of RCM FMEA RCA LCC and Weibull analysis.

  • Proficiency in various PdM technologies (e.g. vibration analysis thermal imaging lubrication analysis).

  • Strong understanding of mechanical electrical or process systems.

  • Overall 10 years of experience with 5 years in Reliability field

  • Mechanical or instrumentation background is a plus.

Our Differences make our Performance


At Air Liquide we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROWAs our Reliability Expert you will be the essential driver of Operational Excellence for our Primary Production Bulk and Onsites activities across the dynamic Africa Middle East & India cluster. You will apply your deep reliability expertise to support site performanc...
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Key Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • FMEA
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Elasticsearch
  • Go
  • Root cause Analysis
  • Maximo
  • CMMS
  • Maintenance
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Troubleshooting

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A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 75 countries with approximately 66,400 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter ... View more

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