General Manager – Mechanical Reliability

ResponsIbilities :

• Maintaining 100 % compliance in SHEQ (Safety Health Environment & Quality) requirements related to Mechanical rotary and static equipment and human safety aspects
• Drive and Perform reliability / Safety Audit of Mechanical systems and related workflows. Define and follow up on the resulting actions.
• Ensure Mechanical systems support is provided to the operating sites on timely manner.
• Develop & implement a strategy for the sourcing, replacement, engineering, maintenance and troubleshooting of mechanical systems. This includes:
• defining which activities should be insourced or outsourced standardization of equipment and service providers (incl. rate contracts / Blanket orders etc)
• identification, selection & development of service providers
• identification of obsolescence issues and planning & execution of suitable upgrade & exchange programs application and ongoing management of condition-based maintenance strategies and the associated data
• Ensure that the competence of maintenance personnel for mechanical systems (internal or external) is assessed and gaps between the actual and the required competence are closed.
• Ensure that maintenance for mechanical systems is adequate, cost efficient and in compliance to
• Our client work processes
• Review and approve mechanical scope of major turnarounds
• Ensure the site teams get adequate expert support in emergency situations
• Support the investigation of mechanical system related trips
• Prepare the contingency plan template to be used at sites
• Lead the root cause failure analysis for major incidents and repeated downtimes
• Feedback learnings from incidents to Reliability Improvement team / POL
• Reporting & Performance Management
• Review downtime reporting of mechanical system failures at sites in the region
• Review internal and external maintenance costs and look for cost reduction opportunities
• Review open actions for sites and track them to closure
• Report implementation status of initiatives resulting from alerts, technical bulletins, Lessons from
• Reliability events and directives
• Modifications:
• Review and/or approve all major modifications and configuration changes to the mechanical systems.
• ensure update of the related plant documents in document management system after modification
• Lead region implementation of initiatives resulting from alerts, Lessons From Reliability Events and directives
• For regionally driven projects work with project management function to provide expert input to scope definition, costing & scheduling etc. Testing and commissioning of major modifications of the existing mechanical systems including emergency situations
• For mechanical systems of new plants or process units ensure that:
• relevant requirements are defined and reviewed by members of the team
• Mechanical system structures & vendors are compliant with our client standards and specific project/site requirements team members participate in relevant project reviews and acceptance (incl. factory and site acceptance tests, handover of systems) respective team members and maintenance teams are trained to operate, maintain and
• troubleshoot the new systems.all necessary documents are handed over, are of good quality and are stored in the our client Gas
• Global Document Management system in a standardized way vendors & service providers are aligned with our client maintenance teams for troubleshooting and service.
• the 'Integrate new assets' workflow is applied through the Country Cluster with respect to mechanical systems

Requirements :

• Ability to lead and develop a distributed cross cultural multilocational team
• Ability to take right decision based on facts under pressure
• Establish and maintain collaborative authority with contractors/suppliers
• Ability to influence/convince cross functional teams including superiors
• Strong problem solving and project management skills.
• Good negotiation skills
• Excellent oral & written communication skills in English language to explain and document reasoning for decisions
• Experience in operating, maintaining, troubleshooting and design of rotary and static equipment and systems.
• Experience with mechanical isolation and re-commissioning.
• Knowledge of relevant mechanical equipment and systems.
• Good background in mechanical safety with knowledge of hazards involved in operation and maintenance of rotary and static pressure and vacuum systems.
• In depth-knowledge of predictive and preventative maintenance techniques including the use of EAM / SAP PM to manage these processes.
• Familiarity with relevant national and international codes and standards.
• Basic Knowledge of ASU / HYCO / CO2 plants including the associated hazards
• Familiarity with Process & Instrumentation (P&I), logics and control loop diagrams with knowledge of control systems.
• Experience in root cause failure analysis
• Capability to do risk assessments and make calculated risk decisions
• Experience in designing and building mechanical systems would be an advantage.
• Experience of using Computerized Maintenance Management System
• Bachelors / Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related subject.
• 12 - 15 years of experience in maintenance function of Air Separation / Fertilizer / Chemical / process plants