Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Role:  Reliability Engineer

Location: Epping Mill

What is it like to work at Kimberly-Clark? 

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Andrex®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day.   

The identity of each and every one of our employees makes us who we are and makes our global company of over 40,000-plus employees stronger because of it.  We are in the business of providing better care for a better world, for everyone, everywhere. At Kimberly-Clark treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world.  We’re building an organisation that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds.  People like you. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to join us!  

The Role:

Role purpose: To ensure a specific focus area of the Manufacturing Operations’ assets is managed, maintained and operated at maximum efficiency. Enabled by digital analysis, the manufacturing process on all assets is controlled and continuously improved so that quality and efficiency is improved in accordance with the operational excellence and reliability pillars.

Leadership

Perform a leadership role and influence for all engineering resources.

Responsible for owning and improving reliability of equipment and initiatives in driving CI.

Capable of leading and motivating and influence a team by setting objectives and driving performance management.

Train, develop and up skill personnel by means of on-the-job as well as technical and generic training.

Manage Reliability and CI Projects on equipment

Corporate Governance, Ethics Quality, Safety and Housekeeping standards

Manages contracts and contractor control procedures and rules for the department.

Requires understanding of Environmental, legal and K-C statutory requirements.

Ensure assets and equipment are maintained in a “Safe to operate” condition at all times while promoting all aspects of safe working practices to meet all safety and housekeeping objectives of the plant.

Contribute to the development of sound safety programmes and maintenance of good working conditions, adherence to organization and legal safety rules and regulations.

Continually comply with all K-C regulatory & control requirements, internal controls, while at all-times driving accountability and compliance on the assets and equipment.

Strategic Asset Reliability (includes preventative and predictive maintenance

To optimise the specific manufacturing process through the design of new mechanical process systems together with optimisation/maintenance of existing process systems in order to achieve optimum plant and process reliability according to K-C Reliability Pillars that supports P2030.

Provide communication on equipment related issues; work with Engineering/Operations to identify development opportunities to improve MTBF and put improvement action plans in place.

Give feedback on uptime initiatives to improve outputs and identify solutions to equipment related problems.

Manage and optimize the PM system and replacement of all parts in accordance with the relevant Planned Maintenance schedules

Provide technical information to the maintenance teams detailing work requests for planned and reactive maintenance.

Give direction to the team regarding prioritisation of efforts towards preventative maintenance shuts, process improvements and trouble shooting.

Ensure effective management of Preventative Maintenance systems.

Plan, organise and control all equipment reliability activities through FEC process.

Strategic Asset Reliability

Analyse and interpret data to enable technical teams to achieve performance targets in accordance with P2030 and Manufacturing best practice.

Initiate and participate in improvement discussions to improve spare parts life cycle.

Analyse maintenance trends and breakdowns providing the necessary input and analytics around business intelligence to predict and discuss possible improvement projects as well as cost relevant to life cycle management and replacement.

Formulate, develop, and drive opportunities within engineering, supported by digital analysis and interpreting data to deliver improved efficiencies.

Ensure adequate spare parts are ready and available for maintenance and breakdowns inline with the budget.

Develop relationships with equipment vendors to reduce costs and increase reliability of assets and equipment.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Minimum of a BEng Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent tertiary education.

Minimum of 3 -5 years previous engineering and maintenance experience in FMCG environment would be advantageous.

LSS – Green Belt

To Be Considered  

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role.

And finally, the fine print…

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to developing a diverse workforce. Preference will be given to candidates who promote representation within Kimberly-Clark in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

Primary LocationSouth Africa -Cape Town

Additional Locations

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time