Reliability Engineer - HME

Summary: The role of Reliability Engineer - HME involves working with a base metals mining company in Western Australia, focusing on mechanical reliability for heavy mining equipment (HME) brands such as Cat, Hitachi, and XEMG. The engineer will have significant autonomy in developing and implementing maintenance and reliability strategies while collaborating with various stakeholders. The position is offered on a hybrid roster and is initially a contract with the potential for full-time employment. The role requires a strong background in reliability engineering and experience with lifecycle management and performance monitoring.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Lifecycle Management and Work Management improvement.
• Monitor equipment performance in relation to cost, performance and reliability and complete targeted root cause analysis and deliver “failure type” reviews.
• Work with LT planner and deliver major components change out program, ConMon program (incl oil sample results and action).
• Perform thorough parts interpretation and analysis, supporting active projects.
• Liaise with Equipment OEMs to troubleshoot mechanical problems, diagnose faults, and provide effective solutions.
• Manage OEM and major component supplier warranties including lodging claims and follow-up through to recovery.
• Implementation of a process and/or product system of audits and schedules.
• Analyse complex problems and implement effective solutions to mitigate risks/issues to ensure key stakeholders deliverables are met.
• Assess current program processes and implement Program continuous improvement.
• Review MTBF and MTTR data and provide strategies to improve; conduct postmortem on the critical equipment failures using RCA, FMEA, LORA, etc.
• Track and analyse GET, tyre and undercarriage wear rates and action strategies in consultation with the Mobile Maintenance Superintendent.
• Set up reporting dashboards with the precincts to monitor various aspects of asset data.

Key Skills:

• Tertiary degree and/or Certificate in Mobile Plant.
• Minimum C Class WA Driver’s License.
• Proven experience as an HME Reliability Engineer or Maintenance Engineer.
• High level experience in MS Office and CMMA (Oracle preferred) or Pronto.
• Experience implementing strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder influencing experience.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: West Perth

Country: Australia

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other