Bengalla - Reliability Advisor - Electrical

Bengalla Mining Company is a joint venture with a strong track record of achievement. Our focus is on maintaining strong safety, productivity and profitability results. We have a collaborative team culture and a highly professional and rewarding work environment. Operational since 1999, Bengalla is in Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley, and supplies international markets with approximately 10 Mtpa.

Bengalla is an open cut coal mine offering a residential lifestyle. The development consent for the operation provides the ability to mine through to 2039.  We pride ourselves on the professionalism with which we pursue our goals and our strong links into our community.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Reliability Advisor - Electrical to work with our diverse fleet of equipment to improve safety, availability, reliability and cost efficiency.

The Reliability Advisor – Electrical is a key technical resource within the Asset Management team and works across all fleets of mining equipment. Reporting to the Reliability Engineer, their primary objective is to use their technical and HME knowledge to improve reliability and availability through analysis of equipment performance data, in-field verification and the completion of reliability / defect elimination projects.

This is a permanent full-time position working a Monday-Friday dayshift roster.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to maintenance planning and execution teams
• Identify defects through the analysis of downtime events and failure data
• Assess, prioritise and manage reliability and defect elimination projects to deliver improvements in safety, availability, reliability and cost
• Review component strip reports and conduct failure analysis so that condition monitoring tactics can be developed and/or refined
• Monitor and review the effectiveness of the existing tactics through close collaboration with the wider reliability team and other key stakeholders
• Provide technical engineering input into the shutdown planning process and scope
• Provide technical engineering input to the Off-Site Repairs (OSR) team regarding component rebuild, repair and replacement scopes

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Electrical trade qualification
• Tertiary engineering qualifications will be highly regarded but not essential
• Previous HME maintenance experience within an open cut mining environment

• Previous exposure to a Maintenance Management system (Pulse experience would be advantageous but not essential)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and influence all levels of the business

What We Offer
  
Bengalla values its people and their contribution to the operation. Our well-established employee benefits program offers choice and flexibility to enhance the lifestyle and wellbeing of our team. With benefits including subsidised health insurance, salary packaging, self-education assistance, and gym memberships we make the health, safety, and well-being of our people our absolute priority.
  
This is a great opportunity to join the professional and friendly team at Bengalla Mining Company and opportunities such as this are few within the region.

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