Air Liquide

Reliability Expert

Air Liquide  •  South Africa (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

As our Reliability Expert, you will be the essential driver of Operational Excellence for our Primary Production, Bulk, and Onsites activities across the dynamic Africa, Middle East & India cluster. You will apply your deep reliability expertise to support site performance and will be directly responsible for driving key Reliability programs, including the implementation of effective "close the loop" methodologies. Success in this role hinges on your ability to collaborate seamlessly with Facility Managers, site-based teams, and fellow experts across Maintenance, Asset, and Technology within Cluster Operations to ensure optimal reliability and continuous improvement.

Asset Performance Management:

  • Develop and implement Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategies, Preventive Maintenance (PM) optimization, and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) techniques.

  • Manage and improve the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) for critical assets.

  • Oversee the Asset Criticality Analysis to focus resources on the most important equipment.

Failure Analysis & Mitigation:

  • Lead and facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations for significant equipment failures to identify and eliminate systemic issues.

  • Set and Report smart reliability key performance indicators with Industrial performance monitoring team

  • Implement Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) during design and operational phases.

  • Capitalize on events to feed the reliability flash process and close the loop

  • Conduct regular RCA audits, capitalize with sharing improvement opportunities with entities

  • Track RCA actions and follow up on status and closure, facilitate follow up to accelerate compliance

Capital Project Support:

  • Participate in the design and commissioning of new equipment and systems to ensure maintainability and reliability are built-in (e.g., specifying reliable components, conducting Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis).

  • Ensure adherence to reliability standards, codes, and best practices

Continuous Improvement:

  • Provide technical support to maintenance and operations teams on reliability issues.

  • Conduct Bad Actor program analysis and develop corrective action plans.

  • Create Reliability Posters and communicate with all entities for Reliability or programs awareness

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Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or equivalent).

  • 5+ Years of experience in PRM

  • Industrial Experience (Operations or Maintenance Management)

  • Maintenance and Reliability experience

Technical experience:

  • In-depth knowledge of RCM, FMEA, RCA, LCC, and Weibull analysis

  • Proficiency in various PdM technologies (e.g., vibration analysis, thermal imaging, lubrication analysis).

  • Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, or process systems.

  • Overall 10 years of experience with 5 years in Reliability field

  • Mechanical or instrumentation background is a plus.

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At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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About Air Liquide

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 72 countries with 67,800 employees, the Group serves more than 4 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the Group’s activities since its creation in 1902.

Taking action today while preparing the future is at the heart of Air Liquide’s strategy. With ADVANCE, its strategic plan for 2025, Air Liquide is targeting a global performance, combining financial and extra-financial dimensions. Positioned on new markets, the Group benefits from major assets such as its business model combining resilience and strength, its ability to innovate and its technological expertise. The Group develops solutions contributing to climate and the energy transition—particularly with hydrogen—and takes action to progress in areas of healthcare, digital and high technologies.

Air Liquide’s revenue amounted to more than 27.5 billion euros in 2023. Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, EURO STOXX 50, FTSE4Good and DJSI Europe indexes.

Industry
Chemicals & Materials
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Paris, FR
Year Founded
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