Reliability & Asset Management Senior Engineer – Mechanical

About the role

First Quantum is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead reliability and asset management for its smelter mechanical assets. The role focuses on implementing the Asset Management Framework, monitoring equipment health, and driving data‑driven maintenance strategies.

Key responsibilities

• Support implementation and maintenance of the Smelter Asset Management Framework and associated standards.
• Develop and maintain accurate asset registers and equipment hierarchies in Pronto.
• Monitor asset health indicators, identify deterioration trends and manage reliability maintenance initiatives.
• Build and maintain asset health indices using equipment age, thickness test data and operating history.
• Conduct periodic asset condition assessments, health reviews and equipment risk assessments.
• Support rollout and implementation of digital maintenance platforms such as OnPlan.
• Apply statistical modelling to historical failure data to distinguish random failures from age‑related wear‑out.
• Analyse recurring equipment failures and develop reliability improvement initiatives.
• Calculate and report plant‑wide metrics including MTBF, MTTR, equipment availability and compliance matrices.
• Lead Root Cause Failure Analyses (RCFA), Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA) and related improvement studies.
• Collect, analyse and report on reliability, availability, maintainability and utilization data.
• Develop KPI dashboards and asset health reports using Power BI, CMMS, PI System, RtDUET and other digital platforms.
• Support reliability forecasting and produce monthly equipment health and reliability reports.

Required profile

• Senior Engineer with proven experience in mechanical reliability and asset management.
• Demonstrated ability to work with digital maintenance platforms and asset management frameworks.
• Strong analytical mindset for interpreting equipment performance data and driving improvement actions.

Required skills

• Pronto (CMMS)
• OnPlan platform
• Statistical modelling of failure data
• Power BI
• PI System
• RtDUET
• MTBF and MTTR calculation
• FMEA
• RCFA
• Asset health index development
• Data analytics and reliability forecasting