In this critical role, you'll collaborate closely with teams across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Safety, ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient performance of plant operations. You'll be tasked with planning and executing both mechanical and civil engineering activities, ensuring compliance with all legislative and corporate standards. As the appointed Asset Specialist, you'll oversee the condition and reliability of the site's assets, leading the mechanical integrity initiatives to meet both current and future operational targets.
**Core Duties:**
- Sustain and evolve plant mechanical and civil engineering standards to align with statutory and company directives.
- Deeply understand and apply relevant legal frameworks, codes, and standards in engineering processes.
- Manage and update documentation for coded vessels.
- Provide expert technical advice on repair strategies that meet local, national, and internal benchmarks.
- Serve as the primary liaison for equipment design and compliance inquiries with regulatory entities.
- Set, oversee, and lead initiatives for asset maintenance, optimizing both preventative and predictive maintenance protocols.
- Interface with operational teams to thoroughly address equipment breakdowns and implement asset-specific policy changes and design enhancements.
- Execute an annual assessment of asset conditions to support long-term asset management strategies.
**Qualifications:**
- A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing, ideally within a chemical processing environment.
- At least 3 years of relevant reliability engineering experience is preferred.
- Expertise in deploying global mechanical integrity protocols to enhance safety and reliability metrics.
- Comprehensive understanding of the degradation mechanics affecting plant equipment.
- Capacity to select effective inspection methodologies and propose preventative measures for potential failures.
- Familiarity with both internal and external inspection techniques to predict and mitigate corrosion or erosion hotspots.
- An understanding of process safety management protocols.
**Why Join Us:**
Experience a dynamic work environment with ample support. Our small plant structure offers significant autonomy, backed by a strong culture and an exceptional leadership team.