ILUKA RESOURCES LIMITED
POSITION DESCRIPTION – ILUKA RESOURCES LIMITED
Title:
RELIABILITY SPECIALIST
Code:
Department:
PLANT ENGINEERING SUPPORT EAST
Section:
Grade:
MB
Location:
HAMILTON
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:
Direct Supervisor:
SENIOR RELIABILITY
ENGINEER
Functional Supervisor:
SENIOR RELIABILITY
ENGINEER
SCOPE OF THE POSITION:
Annual Budget:
Operating $0
Labour
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Capital
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Employees:
Assets: All
MAIN PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Reliability Specialist provides support to the Reliability Engineering and Operations teams by:
Maintenance & development of Predictive Maintenance activities across the Murray Basin Region
Analysis of equipment failures to identify causes using RCA techniques
Identify and implement strategies for improving asset reliability and maintenance execution
Maintenance & development of plant performance reporting systems
Identification and implementation of reliability and plant improvement projects
Provide technical support to the Operations and Maintenance teams to maximise plant throughput
Key Accountabilities
Occupational Health and Safety
Environment
Workplace Relations
Standards of Performance
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Pro-actively promote compliance of corporate occupational health and
safety policies and procedures and relevant regulations and statutory
requirements in order to meet, or better, the MB Business plan.
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Actively promote safety awareness for employees and contract personnel.
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Prompt investigation and reporting of accidents, hazards and incidents.
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Lead or assist with incident investigations and reporting
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Work in a responsible manner that promotes personal safety and
demonstrates leadership to others
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Carry out all activities in compliance with statutory requirements and
company environment policy
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Facilitate company’s compliance with environment policy, procedures,
statutory requirements and regulations, particularly in the areas relevant to
the duties of the position to meet or better the MB Business plan.
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Promote and facilitate compliance of the relevant contract personnel with
company environment policy and procedures
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Contribute to, and maintain, a professional work environment to encourage
provision of an effective, quality service by the team.
Participate constructively in relevant training activities and strive to improve
ones own and other skills.
Adhere to Company workplace policies, EEO and affirmative action
initiatives. Display team skills, initiative, flexibility and cooperation
Commit to corporate and business vision direction and goals &
performance requirements across all sites.
Establish challenging and achievable personal performance measures.
Contribute to change initiatives and their effective implementation in the
work environment.
Develop relationships and work effectively with other departments and
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Reliability Engineering
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Monitoring and Compliance
Technical Support
Manage Staff
Carry out condition and performance monitoring of critical equipment in
order to recommend optimum maintenance activities.
Identify and advise repair priorities on all failures.
Analyse and identify the root causes of failures for high priority/critical
items.
Ensure root cause of failure information is recorded.
Recommend appropriate actions to improve reliability.
In conjunction with Planners, review and modify maintenance processes,
procedures, services, inspection frequencies or applicability of equipment.
Initiate engineering action required to solve reliability problems.
Support maintenance in problem solving immediate issues.
Assist in the design, planning, estimation, installation and commissioning
of new or recommended plant changes to improve reliability.
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Introduce reliability review of engineering designs and studies for new
projects.
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Coordinate and review reliability designs and recommendations from
consultants and manufacturers.
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Produce change implementation schedules to improve reliability and
ensure they are managed according to the agreed plan.
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Determine impact of reliability actions and assess financial, social,
environmental and the commercial risk of alternate courses of action.
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Update regularly the reliability management database and monthly reports.
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Develop workable reliability solutions to complex and unique issues in an
environment characterised by conflicting priorities and financial and
resource constraints.
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Develop potential reliability orientated solutions and suggest options to
meet required changes in a complex and dynamic operational
environment.
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Ensure that maintenance and engineering work carried out complies with
engineering standards, and corporate quality policies and procedures.
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Ensure all changes are captured in the “Iluka Change management
system”.
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Monitor quality of new or inventory replacement equipment and materials
selected for use.
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Ensure recommended reliability changes are implemented.
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Provide technical and specialist advice on reliability matters.
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Assist and support the review of spares stock holdings.
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Maintain a pro-active role in site problem solving situations.
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Investigate operational and maintenance problems and recommend or
initiate rectification actions required.
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Maintain currency of knowledge in relevant technological developments
and engineering standards.
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Develop and maintain a professional, motivated work-team environment
when in a supervisory role.
SKILLS: (Detail the required level for recruitment)
Technical (include education and specific knowledge)
Mechanical engineering or Trade qualification
ISO Certification in Vibration analysis
Certification in Thermography
Condition monitoring data collection experience
Proven ability to apply reliability engineering processes to achieve improved equipment reliability that significantly
reduces overall maintenance costs and plant downtime.
5 years maintenance or engineering experience in a mining/minerals processing plant with involvement in maintenance
functions, research, investigation and reporting is desirable
Supervisory experience an advantage
Spreadsheet and calculation-based computer skills
Sound understanding of financial and economic evaluation is desirable
Managerial (include extent and diversity of activities managed and level of decision making)
Highly organised and able to prioritise work schedules.
Persuasive (include level of communication to inform or influence others)
Must possess effective communication skills to influence site management. Liaison with technical staff, contractors, site
supervisors.
Control (categorise control of personnel and extent to which human and other controlled resources are geographically dispersed)
Monitor contractors employed for specific company projects.
Impact (the impact the position can have on the results and the significance of its responsibilities)
Significant impact with regard to achieving improved equipment reliability that reduces overall maintenance costs and
plant downtime.
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SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE JOB
Hours of work may vary in line with project schedules and deadlines. May be required to participate on a call out roster.
‘A’ class drivers licence