Junior Reliability Engineer

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What this job involves:

JLL is seeking a Junior Reliability Engineer to join our team!

JLL is looking for an individual interested in a 1-year fixed term contract to support our client as we complete our asset data validation program for managed field assets.  This program is designed to support our Facility’s Management teams to ensure proper implementation of the preventative maintenance program and support annual capital planning efforts for our client.

A snapshot of the role:

Recognizes that assignments are broad in nature and require appreciable originality and ingenuity to complete them and considerable latitude for un-reviewed actions or decisions. 

Maintenance Planning

• Prepare work packages for all planned maintenance activities incorporating all safety requirements local to the facility and work being performed.
• Identify required permits.
• Determine the proper sequence of work activities.
• Estimate labor hours needed to perform work.
• Include estimated costs, including labor, materials, and contract services, for each work order.
• Identify and develop standard work routines and task lists.
• Communicate work packages to Maintenance Supervisor via the Weekly Work Schedule.
• Update asset records in the CMMS as required, including entering new equipment, inactivating retired equipment, and labeling equipment in the field with asset tags.
• Ensure that all job plans written in the CMMS include detailed instructions with pictures, parts, labor, craft, vendors, regulatory, and safety requirements.
• Review work order feedback information to improve future planning efforts.  Circle back with the trades staff and leads on follow up work, rescheduling requirements, and improvements to the job plan for future work.
• Maintain library of drawings, manuals, and other documents to assist in maintenance repairs or modifications.
• Support reliability activities such as root cause analysis investigations, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and preventive maintenance optimization (PMO), as well as assist in developing and implementing precision and predictive maintenance routines.

Reliability Engineering

• Equipment preventative maintenance (PM) task creation and management for continuous improvement and PM optimization.
• Supports process of ranking the criticality of the assets under their care, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and for defining the proactive maintenance approaches that are cost-beneficial to the business.
• Create risk mitigation strategies for critical assets that can be deployed across the asset portfolio
• Considers impact of costs on recommended action plans for avoiding/correcting problems during the design phase or remedial action for correcting reliability problems on installed equipment; performs root cause failure analysis to help prevent failures.
• Facilitates/supports operational event and equipment failure investigations to ensure that the root cause/causal factors have been identified, corrective actions prescribed, and follow-up monitoring conducted as applicable, to determine effectiveness.

Condition-based Maintenance

• Understanding of moving and rotating equipment such as pumps, motors, gearboxes, conveyors, etc., from an operations and maintenance perspective, mechanically and electrically.
• Experience w/ predictive maintenance technologies including, but not limited to, vibration analysis, oil analysis, infrared Thermography, ultrasound, and motor current analysis.
• Plans and performs engineering operations, monitors operations center systems, RCM program implementation, process engineering assignments, root cause failure analysis, incorporation of condition-based maintenance (CbM and predictive testing and inspection (PT&I) technologies and conducts equipment condition assessments.  Identify and manage system of continuous improvement to ensure resolution to chronic “bad actor” equipment.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis, Equipment Criticality Ranking, PM/PdM optimization, Defect Elimination, and/or Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.

Workflow Management

• Maintain complete and accurate records/plans within computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) related to equipment, specifications data, BOM, failure history, etc.
• Develop and maintain “Key Performance Indicators" of equipment reliability.
• Ensure that the appropriate Maintenance and Reliability metrics are in place throughout the site, (planned/unplanned work, planning/scheduling metrics, cost metrics, MTBF, replacement asset value, etc.).
• Ensure equipment history is maintained and analyzed for future trends
• Actively collaborate with Maintenance and Planning groups

Sound like you? This is what we’re looking for:

• BS in an Engineering discipline, mechanical or electrical preferred.
• Formal maintenance planning/scheduling training
• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience implementing RCM, CbM/PdM methods, operating building automation and energy management systems, and thorough understanding of asset management, data analytics, and capital planning approaches.
• Experience in critical/ regulated environments preferred (data centers, laboratories, manufacturing environments, automotive, petro-chemicals, pharmaceutical etc.)
• Extensive knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire suppression systems.
• Extensive knowledge of commercial, critical, manufacturing, labs, or distribution facility types required.
• Computer skills and knowledge of various CMMS software
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the maintenance/operations organization
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative approach – “One Family, One JLL”
• Energizes others by showing passion and commitment
• Self-aware; actively seeks, shares and actions feedback on own performance and of team. Advocates self-development
• A self-starter with flexible and open-minded approach to working and drive to go “Beyond”
• Systematic approach to work with high attention to detail
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Embraces change and develops innovative solutions and challenges the “status quo”

What you can expect from us:

As an organisation, we don’t just accept that we are a place of many different people, but we embrace it, we celebrate it, and we proactively support the needs that difference brings. JLL is committed to equal opportunity and building an inclusive workplace.  This is why, for more than a decade, we continue to rank among the World’s Most Ethical Companies. We support applications from all underrepresented groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBT+, people with disability and people of all age, religions and race. We are dedicated to offering veterans from all ranks and services a successful civilian career as they transition out of the military.

Apply today, quoting job reference number LMREQ344528