Descripción de la oferta
European Maintenance & Reliability Engineer
At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands.
We’re Everywhere. Wherever you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between.
What does a typical day look like?
Maintenance Management: Develop, implement, and review maintenance programs to minimize equipment failures, increase plant availability, and reduce costs. This includes performing asset criticality assessments, developing and revising maintenance concepts using FMEA, scheduling weekly maintenance activities and managing shutdowns, handling emerging work and scheduled maintenance, and improving maintenance catalogues and managing spare parts/material standardization.
Reliability Engineering: Drive reliability initiatives to reduce failures and optimize resources. This includes conducting asset criticality assessments and failure reduction investigations, leading FMEA workshops and reliability analyses, facilitating root cause analysis and implementing reliability solutions, and managing condition monitoring programmes and self‑assessment audits.
Collaboration & Performance: Work closely with site leaders, maintenance and engineering managers, and other operational teams to set and achieve goals, objectives, and performance metrics.
What exciting challenges will you take on in this role?
Maintenance
Lead the development of new or improved maintenance strategies for critical and under‑performing assets, focusing on failure reduction, cost reduction, and resource utilisation.
Develop schedules for maintenance & engineering for daily/weekly activities and shutdowns, working closely with key stakeholders at sites. Create schedules using SAP & Microsoft Project, identify critical paths, resource levels and improvement opportunities.
Work closely with procurement to standardise assets and materials that offer savings opportunities.
Analyse SAP data for notifications, work orders and maintenance plans/items.
Generate monthly KPI reports and trend analysis, comparing maintenance cost trends to budget and providing recommendations and actions for improvement.
Monitor self‑assessment activities and KPI’s to achieve year‑to‑year goals.
Reliability
Lead root cause analysis (RCA) sessions, failure modes effect analysis (FMEA) workshops, and progress‑tracking meetings. Work closely with site teams to enhance tools usage.
Oversee the identification of bad actors, initiate reliability projects, and implement loss‑elimination and mechanical‑integrity improvements.
Identify and deploy predictive maintenance techniques that increase plant availability and are cost‑beneficial.
Provide guidance and expertise on counter‑measures that could prevent or detect root causes identified from investigations.
Supervise vendor investigations into design, capabilities, restrictions/limitations, materials of construction, specifications, and costs.
Oversee the Condition Monitoring programme at allocated sites, identifying critical assets and predictive opportunities to enhance reliability and reduce failure costs.
Decision‑Making Authority
Agree on key decisions with stakeholders (site maintenance leaders, site leaders, central and site engineering).
Approve corrective actions resulting from failure investigations.
Approve shutdown plans and associated activities.
Approve week‑to‑week maintenance schedules.
What is required to be successful in this role?
University degree in an engineering discipline is preferred or equivalent experience and knowledge, with a proven track record of managing maintenance and reliability programmes.
Experience in a Maintenance and/or Reliability role within the chemical industry or other process industries, with a minimum of 3‑5 years’ experience.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience managing maintenance execution, including shutdown management, and investigating reliability issues through problem solving, solution identification, implementation and effectiveness reviews.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including effective communication with non‑native English speakers.
Experience using SAP‑PM, MM & DMS.
Travel within Europe (typical duration: 1 week) when business requires.
We are an Equal Opportunity, Affiliated‑Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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