Lead Instrument & Electrical Engineer RLP

JOB PURPOSE / OBJECTIVE

Develop, lead and implement reliability improvement initiatives, strategies and roadmaps to improve Reliability of Instrument and Electrical (I&E) assets of plants utilizing acquired knowledge, experience and effective decision making. Responsible for identifying and managing risks that could adversely affect plant assets or business operations through fault elimination, risk management, life cycle management and performance monitoring and improvement. Provide technical and administrative support to I&E Reliability Engineers and Technicians of I&E Reliability Group.

• Act as technical authority and provide high level technical support and guidance to the team in conducting the business in an effective manner.
• Supervise the activities and work performed by direct reports to ensure that these are carried out in an efficient and effective manner, in line with the annual business plans, and departmental policies and procedures.
• Recommend training and development interventions for team members to build their capabilities.

• Lead Technical department efforts to ensure integrity and reliability of all I&E assets of the company. This includes but not limited to development of reliability improvements engineering solutions for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant equipment operations.
• Responsible to develop and implement comprehensive short- and long-term reliability plans based on data derived through a variety of failure and life cycle analysis techniques; as well as information gained through troubleshooting, historical records and existing performance measurement systems.
• Lead Reliability Improvement efforts of the plant from the platform of Reliability Improvement Teams (RITs)
• Apply proactive reliability processes (i.e., criticality ranking, bad actor focus, root cause failure analysis, reliability cantered maintenance) to ensure long term reliability.
• Lead RCA's in the area of expertise and report outs. Compile recommendations and implementation/close-out follow-up.
• Lead the efforts for Planning, development, documentation and institutionalization of Instrumented Protective Systems (IPS) related work processes in the company to comply with regulatory requirements mandated both by International Standards (IEC
  61511/ISA 84) and Company Standards RMS 5700.
• Coordinate, mentor and guide I&E Reliability Engineers, Technicians and developees in order for them to evolve in their jobs and guarantee quality levels of the service provided.
• Lead efforts in diagnosing complex electrical/electronic system malfunctions and prescribes repairs or changes in work practices.
• Follow-up on recurring equipment failures, determine root causes and identify actions to prevent reoccurrence. Develop engineering solutions for chronic and sporadic reliability problems and work with production, and maintenance to implement solutions. This would include helping to build and upgrade maintenance procedures and auditing to ensure improvements are sustained.
• Provide leadership to organization on the latest reliability and maintenance technologies and best practices.
• Continuously seek new technology and improvement practices.

• Perform routine analysis of equipment performance and equipment integrity and report against key performance indicators.
• Provide input as needed on projects to ensure design and reliability issues are considered and addressed on new projects.
• Responsible to provide guidelines for adherence to Life Cycle Asset Management process throughout the entire life cycle of new and old assets.
• Participate and provide input to Risk Management activities that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant safety and operation.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for MOCs, guidance and training.

• Identify and Incorporate opportunities for the continuous improvement of departmental programs, policies and procedures in alignment with corporate’s manufacturing Standards,…