1. Measures of quality for your role. As the Mechanical Reliability Engineer for Nufarm I am directly responsible for driving the quality of the several plants up daily by assessing the different components and searching for better, more reliable parts or processes. Now I am assessing the safety valves on every plant with the goal of determining if they are fit for purpose, reliable, the maintenance regime and cost or repair vs replacement. This isn’t a 5minute task and requires a lot of walking the plants to determine where they are fitted and their suitability. 2. How does your output measure against the three key demands: delivery, cost and quality? I believe I am meeting all 3 by delivering the right part for the task (safety) with a full assessment of cost to the company in do we replace or renew with the same or a better safety valve more compatible with the chemicals they encounter daily and therefore the quality of the valves will prove to be better as the cost will drop and the reliability will increase. 3. In terms of organisational culture, comment on the following and identify three to five aspects that could be improved: a. The overall organisational culture. – seems to be safety first which I expect on a top tier COMAH site. However, there is an office with around a 100 people in various roles and it is close to impossible to remember who is in each role, so I must search the department to find who I need some days. We have a lot of contractors on site daily and it is hard to get them to comply some days as they are not directly affected by their actions and omissions, so I must give safety talks occasionally in passing them. b. Culture within your department or work area. -within my direct work area, the department is well organised with small teams responsible for their part in the Quality of the final product and company reputation. One example of a slight conflict would be I had all the pumps to assess, and the Rotation engineer responsible for them didn’t like me asking questions and looking at them closely, which I overcame by explaining I’m not here to judge your role just see how we can work together to improve the reliability. So, I fitted vibration analysis to most of his pumps and started condition monitoring them which is showing good results already for us both and the company. c. Your personal view of culture. – culture is hard to change but with perseverance and commitment from all involved we can all benefit from the company performing better and achieving our goals. The Culture will not change overnight but we need to commit to the Mission statement and work at a management level to drive change from the top down for everyone’s benefit.