Reliability engineer

Job description

Solvay is a multi-specialty chemical company committed to developing chemistry that addresses key societal challenges. We innovate and partner with customers in diverse global end markets. Solvay Composite Materials combines 50 years of technology heritage to bring a comprehensive product portfolio, expertise in material design, and extensive process engineering solutions to our customers. As the partner of choice for advanced materials development, we deliver optimal material solutions to address our customers’ most challenging demands for new high-performance materials to improve durability and production, while offering weight savings for the end application.

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Job Overview and Responsibilities:

Objective:
•Identification of active and passive weak points for the initiation of availability securing measures
•Customization of the improvement needs between maintenance and business
•linkage between improvement initiatives and prioritization through „Bath Actors“(critical plants)
•Construction of a uniform methodology of the availability management
•Guaranteeing the in working order durability of the plants

Roles and Activities:
•Analysis of the performance of asset together with the operation and failures correlate (OEE, Production losses, repair costs, etc.) 
•Analyzing of initiation of the data construction in the plants and ensuring the data quality in SAP
•Creating date technical standards which have to be cultivated
•Building up and checking a report systematics for failure safety (Damage-/ weak points)  
•Making, supervising and coordinating the revision of the maintenance politics and strategies for higher failure safety and availability at low costs
•Implementation of new processes to pursue the total operating costs (TCO) of the equipment’s
•Construction of an availability methodology/method instruction
•Acquirement of course materials and introduction of the engineers/technicians
•Classifying of equipment’s and determining the criticality assessment
•Succeeding with a uniform risk management methodology/standard
•Drawing and determining measures and plans for the loss minimization and risk minimization
•Interlinking and guaranteeing a uniform methodology with respect to criticality, failure safety, maintenance strategies and spare part management  
•Revision of the frequency and size of schedules 

Responsibility:
•Maintenance costs in the context of the budget and gradual, continuous cost reduction
•Backtracking of availability indicators
•Integrated administration of “Bad Actors“ List
•Improvement analyses and supervision of the results

Roles and Activities (continuing):
•Updating a list of „Bad Actors“
•Managing and carrying out availability projects
•Coordinating , presenting and breakdown analysis (RCFA, FMEA,...) and involving of technical experts within Solvay
•Making analyses which are included in purchase or repair decisions
•Participation in the planning and installation phase of new plants to minimize the total costs arising during their life time
•Identifying of cost reduction in the maintenance inside acceptable risk

Education and Experience:

•Technical education 

•General knowledge about the technology of the production plants

•Knowledge of maintenance and management tools, reliability and capacity

•Specializations in reliability and industrial Asset management

Skills:

•Sense of organization
•Critical idea about maintenance activities
•Abilities to negotiate and moderation of meetings
•Practical use of availability tools, methods and techniques
•Administration of relationship between departments and functions 

Additional Information
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