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Sibelco

Sells and processes specialty industrial minerals

Reliability Manager

Mechanical Maintenance and Reliability EngineeringUpdated on Nov 15
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of work experience focused on reliability, mechanical, maintenance, and engineering in large industrial, recycling, or manufacturing industries or sectors.
  • Industry knowledge.
  • Comprehensive understanding of glass processing equipment and processes.
  • Practical knowledge of engineering principles applied to the design, operation, and maintenance of building structures and mechanical and electrical equipment for buildings.
  • Working knowledge of facilities maintenance, workforce and supplier capabilities, and progressive developments in the industry.
  • Experience with predictive maintenance technologies, including vibration analysis, oil analysis, infrared thermography, ultrasound, and motor current analysis.
  • Experience with Root Cause Failure Analysis, Equipment Criticality Ranking, Preventive Maintenance, and Condition Based Maintenance.
  • Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative in meeting sales and revenue goals.
  • Ability to negotiate and manage contractual arrangements.
  • Ability to analyze and solve problems.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including word processing, data entry, Excel spreadsheets, and reports.
  • Ability to travel up to 60–75%.

Responsibilities

  • Work with plant maintenance, production, and leadership teams to develop and use tools and systems for measuring production-process reliability.
  • Provide engineering support for maintenance planning and supervision and plant operations and maintenance; develop and implement methods to ensure safe operations, high equipment reliability and availability, cost-effective maintenance, and continuous improvement.
  • Apply lean maintenance strategies and predictive technologies to optimize operational performance, lifecycle cost, and payback; act as the primary liaison for capital projects with the Capital Implementation team across cluster plants.
  • Maintain and promote a safe working environment and achieve safety and health objectives.
  • Lead and execute the reliability excellence and maintenance program, and write and maintain reliability maintenance strategy documents.
  • Work with Maintenance Planners and Supervisors to implement lean manufacturing tools that empower employees and improve financial performance.
  • Rank asset criticality, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and define cost-beneficial proactive maintenance approaches.
  • Identify and implement predictive maintenance technologies and manage predictive maintenance equipment.
  • Conduct or support operational event and equipment-failure investigations; identify root causes and causal factors, prescribe corrective actions, and monitor follow-up effectiveness as applicable.
  • Conduct periodic and as-needed program and system or equipment audits focused on safety, risk analysis, regulatory compliance, maintenance effectiveness, cost savings, and energy conservation.
  • Participate in planning, design review, value management, and construction-document development for new facilities and renovations; support utility distribution, master planning, and business continuity planning.
  • Support commissioning for upgrade, renovation, and construction projects, including preventive maintenance job plans, maintainability reviews, critical spares, and documentation.
  • Develop and maintain equipment reliability key performance indicators.
  • Lead maintenance improvement tools, including Preventive Maintenance Optimization, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Root Cause Failure Analysis, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, and use predictive maintenance tools.
  • Maintain technical competency in advanced maintenance technology.
  • Maintain equipment repair history and evaluate repair costs and trends.
  • Analyze equipment failure patterns and interpret enterprise resource planning preventive maintenance data to prioritize reliability improvements.
  • Track reliability improvement performance, evaluate effectiveness, and make further modifications as needed.
  • Work with local Maintenance Teams to use potential-failure intervals to prioritize, plan, and schedule work to minimize downtime.
  • Develop solutions to repetitive, chronic, or costly failures and other maintenance problems; apply value analysis to repair-versus-replace, repair-versus-redesign, and make-versus-buy decisions.
  • Assist with troubleshooting major or repetitive equipment.
  • Advise Maintenance Supervisors and Managers of problems or potential problems affecting safe and efficient operations.
  • Monitor and report relevant maintenance activity key performance indicators, including wrench-time analysis.

About the Company

Sibelco

Sells and processes specialty industrial minerals

Sibelco is a Belgian materials solutions company that sources, processes and distributes specialty industrial minerals, especially silica, clays and feldspathics. Its minerals are used in industries like glass, ceramics, construction, coatings, polymers and high-tech products, with production sites in many countries. How it works: Sibelco buys raw minerals, processes and upgrades them through its production network, and then distributes them to customers who use the minerals as key ingredients in their end products. How it differs from competitors: it combines a wide, global footprint with a broad portfolio of specialty minerals and an integrated value chain from sourcing to distribution, enabling consistent supply and tailored mineral solutions. Its goal: provide reliable mineral solutions for industrial applications and support customers in producing high-quality, durable products.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$385M
Headquarters
Antwerp, Belgium
Founded
2008

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