Reliability Engineer

Kimberly Clark • Other • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa • $400 - $500 / year • 5h ago

Description Role: Reliability Engineer

Location: Epping Mill

The Role:

Role purpose: To ensure a specific focus area of the Manufacturing Operations’ assets is managed, maintained and operated at maximum efficiency. Enabled by digital analysis, the manufacturing process on all assets is controlled and continuously improved so that quality and efficiency is improved in accordance with the operational excellence and reliability pillars.

Responsibilities:

Perform a leadership role and influence for all engineering resources.
Responsible for owning and improving reliability of equipment and initiatives in driving Continuous Improvement (CI).
Capable of leading, motivating, and influencing a team by setting objectives and driving performance management.
Train, develop, and upskill personnel by means of on-the-job as well as technical and generic training.
Manage Reliability and CI Projects on equipment.
Manage contracts and contractor control procedures and rules for the department.
Ensure assets and equipment are maintained in a “Safe to operate” condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.
Contribute to the development of sound safety programmes and maintenance of good working conditions, adhering to organizational and legal safety rules and regulations.
Continually comply with all Kimberly-Clark regulatory and control requirements and internal controls while driving accountability and compliance on the assets and equipment.
To optimize the specific manufacturing process through the design of new mechanical process systems together with optimization/maintenance of existing process systems in order to achieve optimum plant and process reliability according to Kimberly-Clark Reliability Pillars that supports P2030.
Provide communication on equipment-related issues; work with Engineering/Operations to identify development opportunities to improve Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and implement improvement action plans.
Give feedback on uptime initiatives to improve outputs and identify solutions to equipment-related problems.
Manage and optimize the Preventative Maintenance (PM) system and replace all parts in accordance with the relevant Planned Maintenance schedules.
Provide technical information to maintenance teams detailing work requests for planned and reactive maintenance.
Give direction to the team regarding prioritization of efforts towards preventative maintenance shuts, process improvements, and troubleshooting.
Ensure effective management of Preventative Maintenance systems.
Plan, organize, and control all equipment reliability activities through FEC process.
Analyse and interpret data to enable technical teams to achieve performance targets in accordance with P2030 and manufacturing best practices.
Initiate and participate in improvement discussions to enhance spare parts life cycle.
Analyse maintenance trends and breakdowns providing necessary input and analytics around business intelligence to predict and discuss possible improvement projects as well as costs relevant to life cycle management and replacement.
Formulate, develop, and drive opportunities within engineering, supported by digital analysis and interpreting data to deliver improved efficiencies.
Ensure adequate spare parts are ready and available for maintenance and breakdowns in line with the budget.
Develop relationships with equipment vendors to reduce costs and increase reliability of assets and equipment.

Qualifications:

Minimum of a BEng Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent tertiary education.
Minimum of 3 - 5 years of previous engineering and maintenance experience in FMCG environment would be advantageous.
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) – Green Belt certification.

To Be Considered:

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