Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Reliability Engineer, Epping Plant, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 6th August, end of day

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

The Reliability Engineer must 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.

In this role, you will:


* Perform a leadership role and influence for all engineering resources.


* Responsible for owning and improving reliability of equipment and initiatives in driving CI.


* Capable of leading and motivating and influence a team by setting objectives and driving performance management.


* Train, develop and up skill personnel by means of on-the-job as well as technical and generic training.


* Manage Reliability and CI Projects on equipment.


* Manages contracts and contractor control procedures and rules for the department.


* Requires understanding of Environmental, legal and K-C statutory requirements.


* 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, adherence to organization and legal safety rules and regulations.


* Continually comply with all K-C regulatory & control requirements, internal controls, while at all-times driving accountability and compliance on the assets and equipment.


* To optimise the specific manufacturing process through the design of new mechanical process systems together with optimization / maintenance of existing process systems to achieve optimum plant and process reliability according to K-C Reliability Pillars that supports P2030.


* Provide communication on equipment related issues; work with Engineering / Operations to identify development opportunities to improve MTBF and put improvement action plans in place.


* Give feedback on uptime initiatives to improve outputs and identify solutions to equipment related problems.


* Manage and optimize the PM system and replacement of all parts in accordance with the relevant Planned Maintenance schedules


* Provide technical information to the maintenance teams detailing work requests for planned and r...