Senior Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Senior Reliability Engineer at First Quantum owns asset management planning and strategy. The role manages reliability risk, production losses and high-cost assets, develops Asset Management Plans and life-cycle strategies, and builds RCM-based business cases to optimise maintenance and guide investment decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Own, develop and maintain Asset Management Plans (AMPs) covering maintenance strategy, component life, rebuild and replacement timing and life-cycle cost
• Develop and review life-cycle strategies (life extension, rebuild, replace, park-up) backed by LCC analysis and reliability data
• Turn asset strategy into maintenance budgets, long-term forecasts and capital replacement plans with Planning and Finance
• Build data-driven business cases from RCM, cost and reliability metrics, run the strategy review cycle and report asset performance to management
• Identify, assess and rank reliability risks and propose mitigations such as design changes, detection logic, maintenance tactic changes and training
• Monitor production losses and high-maintenance-cost assets and lead defect elimination on the main contributors
• Lead RCM analysis and implementation, RCFA and corrective action closure, and cost analysis of major maintenance components
• Define, track and report reliability KPIs (availability, MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, backlog, planned vs unplanned work, maintenance cost per operating hour)
• Analyse failure, downtime and cost data from CMMS, condition monitoring, oil analysis, dispatch and telemetry, and build reliability dashboards in Power BI or similar
• Run quality assurance on scheduled maintenance tasks and mentor junior engineers, specialists, foremen and execution personnel

Required profile

• Grade 12 school certificate or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering, with relevant mobile fleet experience
• Registration with the Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ)
• At least 5 years in maintenance or reliability engineering in open pit mining, with a track record on truck and shovel operations
• At least 2 years in a reliability engineering role preferred
• Proven experience developing or owning maintenance strategies or AMPs for major mobile fleets
• Experience mentoring or supervising junior engineers or technical staff

Required skills

• Reliability analysis methods (Weibull, Pareto, bad actor analysis) and advanced Excel and Power BI
• RCM, RCFA and life-cycle cost (LCC) modelling advantageous
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and teamwork

Applicants can apply through the First Quantum careers page or, if already an employee, through their Workday account.