Mechanical Reliability Engineer

at  BHP

Date: 17 Jan 2025
Job Posting End Date: 14-Feb-2025;13:29:59GMT
Job Country:Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Adelaide

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Prominent Hill is copper-gold mine, a long-life asset, that is part of the BHP South Australia copper province. BHP is a global company with operations in Australia, North and South America across 5 different commodities.
You will join our dynamic and results-driven team providing specialist advice, affecting the defect elimination process and undertaking reliability improvement work. Your role will focus on the end-to-end maintenance system, inclusive of parts, procedures, work quality and processes.
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Location: Prominent Hill, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 8 days on; 6 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off
Department: Engineering & Maintenance
Manager: Senior Reliability Engineer
Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time
Applications close: 14 February 2025

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Ensure the site is complaint with relevant standards and statutory obligations.
• Develop operating/work procedures for people carrying out work as part to the reliability program.
• Participate in audits of site equipment and systems to ensure site asset management practices meet company performance requirements and remain compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Execute defect elimination rhythms and routines, ensuring triggered events are reviewed, investigated, actions are implemented and remediation plans are monitored for effectiveness.
• Foster relationships with key personnel from other business functions.
• Provide expertise and coaching to other operational teams in analysis of performance indicators and metrics.
• Review execution results from current weekly work schedule to support & ensure compliance of preventive maintenance tasks.
• Analyse condition monitoring data and action accordingly.
• Implement maintenance work plans to validate the integrity of plant, equipment and infrastructure in accordance with defined standards and procedures.
• Analyse life of plant, equipment and infrastructure to determine equipment capability.
• Provide input into the development of the capital and operating budgets.
• Investigate events which meet the Business/Asset-defined risk threshold.
• Develop scopes for site reliability improvement projects, and champion the initiatives.