Reliability Engineer

About the role

Valterra Platinum is hiring a Reliability Engineer, based in Mokopane, Limpopo. This role is at a Band 6 level reporting to the Engineering Asset Manager.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess and escalate equipment-related safety and reliability risks, including risks affecting safety-critical assets and controls.
• Provide reliability input into incident, accident and equipment-failure investigations and track assigned corrective actions.
• Lead or participate in asset criticality assessments, FMECA, RCM and maintenance-tactics reviews.
• Develop and review preventive and predictive maintenance task lists for assigned equipment, based on failure modes, risk, condition and maintenance history.
• Identify the special tools, facilities and supporting requirements needed to execute identified maintenance tasks safely and effectively.
• Provide reliability and maintainability input into specifications, commissioning, modifications and acceptance of new or changed equipment.
• Develop and annually review equipment management and improvement plans, including LOAP actions, in consultation with operational stakeholders.
• Define practical corrective and preventive actions, assign measures of effectiveness and verify whether improvements are sustained.
• Monitor MTBF, availability, maintenance effectiveness and asset-health trends for the assigned area and translate results into actions.
• Integrate condition-monitoring findings, inspections, defects, remaining-life information and OEM recommendations into risk-based maintenance actions.
• Coordinate the follow-up of oil analysis, vibration, thermography, structural inspections and other asset-health findings applicable to the assigned area.
• Establish and drive maintenance-quality and precision-maintenance initiatives.
• Identify repeat workmanship or repair-quality concerns and coordinate corrective actions.
• Provide reliability input into planning, Prioritisation, scheduling and work-package quality.
• Review completed work, technical feedback and failure history to assess task effectiveness and identify required changes.
• Maintain reliability records, task lists, technical documents, defect registers, action logs and performance reports in the applicable systems.
• Support accurate master data, bills of material, equipment structures and reporting requirements affecting reliability decisions.
• Develop bills of material, rotable requirements, preservation requirements and remaining-life information.
• Develop life-cycle cost models, repair-versus-replace studies and reliability-improvement business cases.
• Research relevant technology and digital opportunities and develop or coordinate controlled trials and implementation programmes in accordance with applicable governance and approval requirements.
• Build personal competence through structured exposure, mentoring, formal learning and evidence of applied reliability engineering work.
• Contribute to a purpose-driven, high-performing and accountable culture that is aligned with company values, promotes inclusion and diversity, supports employee engagement and fosters continuous improvement.

Requirements

• NQF level 7 qualification - BTECH, BSc or BEng Engineering Degree (Mech, Elec, Industrial, Process, Chemical)
• GCC or MSc Degree (Engineering or Process) advantageous
• Experience, technical knowledge and skills
• At least 5 years' relevant Engineering experience.
• Relevant experience in maintenance, engineering or asset-intensive operations, with demonstrated exposure to reliability analysis, maintenance strategies, condition monitoring, RCA or defect elimination.
• Maintenance and reliability engineering principles
• equipment criticality
• RCM/FMECA
• RCA
• condition monitoring
• work management
• asset data
• risk management
• and applicable mining or industrial safety requirements.
• Data analysis and interpretation
• MS Office
• ERP/SAP exposure
• technical reporting
• facilitation
• action tracking
• maintenance-strategy review
• and translating findings into practical work.
• Analytical thinking, learning agility, collaboration, disciplined follow-through, constructive challenge, clear communication, safety leadership and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Valid driver’s licence
• Medical certificate of fitness
• There could be ad hoc/ overtime requirements from time to time including need to travel