AddressAlbemarle in Australia – Be An Essential Element To A Brighter Future
Albemarle is a global leader in transforming essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. We are one of the biggest producers of lithium in the world and Australia is critical to our energy storage business.
Our new world class Lithium Hydroxide Processing Plant at Kemerton, near Bunbury in the Southwest of Western Australia, is the most modern plant globally and is set for major expansion. Albemarle investment in Australia spans mining joint ventures and processing operations. Our corporate office sits in the heart of the Perth CBD.
We are a rapidly growing part of Albemarle Corporation which has over 7000 employees worldwide across energy storage and specialty chemicals. We are suppliers of choice for leading companies including the world’s biggest electric vehicle manufacturers, and makers of batteries and electronics.
The work we do at Albemarle helps to pioneer new ways to move, power, connect, and protect.
The Role
The Lead Maintenance Engineer is responsible for leading a team of multidisciplinary reports to develop and plan maintenance to provide a safe reliable operating plant. Working together with the maintenance execution and production teams, this role ensures that the maintenance strategies are developed, reviewed, and planned safely and at optimal cost.
It is a residential role, you will work full time at our Kemerton site (located near Bunbury in the Southwest of Western Australia), and will be required to work Monday to Friday (standard business hours).
Key Responsibilities
- Motivate your team to work safely, and respectfully of themselves and others. Lead the Reliability team to zero injuries and zero major incidents.
- Plan and review the capability of teams and ensure sufficient resources are available to undertake workload. Provide recommendations for any changes to team structure or roles to support.
- Identify opportunities to coach and reward individuals to develop an inclusive culture that values and encourages diversity of thought and promotes team over individual.
- Set expectations, provide feedback, and hold people accountable for their actions and responsibilities in meeting those expectations.
- Measure, monitor, track, and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to ensure attainment of maintenance / reliability / planning objectives. Use KPI’s to set and achieve improvement objectives.
- Provide technical support to maintenance Supervisor, specialist, and crafts on difficult equipment repair problems.
- Provide Tier 2 troubleshooting support and recommendations to operating units on equipment reliability including emergency work reviews
- Lead and participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis and execute corrective actions for complex and/or repetitive problems.
- Lead and participate in the Bad Actor Program and create action plans for improving reliability
- Assist in the training and development of in-house maintenance resources
- Support the reliability processes to drive improvements, optimize costs, and improve Asset Effectiveness (Bad Actor Management, FMEA, RBI, RBM, RCM, Reliability Roadmap, etc)
- Establish, monitor, and optimize Preventative Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance Plans
- Responsible for Review “equipment health condition monitoring “and take necessary actions.
- Provide support with warehouse spares technical queries and all other inventory-related support.
- Lead and support reduction of MTTR and maintenance process audits with precision maintenance.
- Provide support with short term defect elimination.
About You
Albemarle is a values-driven company that appreciates and promotes resilience, equity, inclusion and diversity of background, experience and expertise. As the successful candidate you will possess:
- 5+ years extensive experience in a similar supervisory role, in addition to a minimum 10 years’ experience in reliability Maintenance Engineering
Albemarle requires successful applicants to pass a pre-employment medical, and complete on-boarding verification of employment history, right to work, qualifications and police clearance.
Education / Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering
- Post graduate Certificate or Diploma in Management is highly desirable
- Prior people management experience is preferred.
On Offer
The successful candidate will be provided with an attractive salary package and the following employee benefits:
- 12% superannuation
- Annual Bonus Scheme
- Private Health Insurance subsidy - up to $1500 per year
- Novated Leasing
- Life Insurance and Income Protection Insurance
Albemarle acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to all members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and cultures; and to Elders past and present.
Albemarle is committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from people encompassing diversity of age, ethnicity and cultural background - including First Nations Australians, and from those with varied religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical ability and thinking styles, family background and level of education and experience.
Albemarle is proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women. If you would like to know more information about how we are supporting our employees, click here: Albemarle Corporation Benefits | WORK180 Endorsed Employer
