European Maintenance

European Maintenance & Reliability EngineerErf #715At Bakelite, you'll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.We're Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you'll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world's most challenging demands.Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.It's Better with Bakelite.European Maintenance & Reliability Engineer(all genders)What does a typical day look like?These are your main tasks: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 standardizationReliability 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?These are your Job ResponsibilitiesMaintenanceLead the development of new or improvements to existing maintenance strategies for critical and bad acting assets, focusing of failure reduction, reduced costs and utilisation of resources and technology.Lead and develop schedules for maintenance & engineering for daily/weekly activities and shutdowns, working closely with key stakeholders at sites. Developing schedules using SAP & Microsoft Project. Identifying critical paths, resource levels and improvement opportunities when feeding back activities.Work closely with procurement organisation to establish assets and materials that can be standardised and provide opportunities for savings.Providing analysis of SAP data and information for notifications, work orders and maintenance plans/items.Generating monthly KPI's and reporting trends, together with maintenance cost trends vs. budget with recommendations and actions for improvement.Monitoring self-assessment activities and KPI's to achieve the goals set at the beginning of each year.ReliabilityLead and facilitating root cause analysis (RCA) sessions, failure modes effect analysis (FMEA) workshops, and progress tracking meetings. Working closely with site teams to enhance thought processes and application of the tools.Oversee the program and identification of bad actors (failure reduction, loss elimination and mechanical integrity) and initiating reliability projects for each item.Identify predictive maintenance techniques that can be applied to increase plant availability and deploy them where cost-beneficial.Provide guidance and expertise on countermeasure/ solutions that could prevent or detect the causes established from investigations and simple problems.Oversee the possible solutions through investigations with vendors of design, capabilities, restrictions/limitations, material of construction, specification, costs, etc.Monitoring self-asLead the Condition Monitoring programme at allocated sites, identifying critical assets, predictive opportunities to increase the reliability of the asset and reduce costs associated with failures.The role-holder has jurisdiction to make decisions relating to:Agreement on key decisions with stakeholders (site maintenance leaders, site leaders, central and site engineering resources)Corrective actions resulting from failure investigationsShutdown plans and associated activitiesWeek-to-week maintenance schedulesWhat is required to be successful in this role?(Education & Experience):University degree in an engineering discipline is preferred or the necessary experience and knowledge, with proven track record of managing maintenance and reliability programmes, developing maintenance strategies and initiating failure analysis/investigations with improvements evident.Experience in Maintenance and/or Reliability role within the chemical industry or other process industries, with minimum 3-5 years' experience.Must have a minimum 5 years' experience of managing maintenance execution with shutdown management experience and/or investigating reliability issues through problem solving, solution identification, implementation and effectiveness reviews.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including effective communication with others for whom English is their second language.Experience of using SAP-PM, MM & DMS.Travel for periods within Europe (typical duration 1 week) when business requires.We are an Equal Opportunity, Aff......Disclaimer: We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.Beschäftigungsindikator RegularReisen erforderlich Ja#J-*****-Ljbffr