JOB OBJECTIVE:
- Serve as the subject matter authority for electrical reliability engineering, providing expert judgment on asset lifecycle decisions, risk acceptance, and long-term reliability performance.
- Govern the structured application of FMEA/FMECA, RCA, and RAM methodologies for electrical systems, ensuring consistency, technical rigor, and alignment with the corporate Maintenance Philosophy.
- Define, own, and continuously improve corporate reliability standards, frameworks, and methodologies, ensuring alignment with international best practices and organizational objectives.
- Technically approve and validate complex, high-impact reliability studies and assessments performed by senior reliability engineers, providing oversight on assumptions, conclusions, and recommended actions.
- Influence capital projects, major upgrades, and asset replacement decisions by embedding reliability, availability, maintainability, and lifecycle risk considerations into design and investment decisions
Description
Reliability Engineering
- Ensure electrical systems and equipment achieve required reliability, availability, and efficiency performance across the asset lifecycle.
- Assess existing maintenance practices through structured gap analysis and define reliability-centered maintenance strategies, including descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive approaches.
- Lead failure analysis and root cause investigations for electrical systems, ensuring systemic causes are identified and recurrence is eliminated.
- Conduct technical site assessments, audits, and focused reliability studies to identify performance gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Establish and govern mechanisms to identify, prioritize, and eliminate electrical bad actors using data-driven performance and risk indicators.
- Provide technical input and assurance during testing and commissioning of electrical plant and equipment to ensure reliability requirements are met.
- Define and implement strategies to prevent repeat failures and improve long-term asset performance.
- Monitor and review electrical equipment performance trends, and provide technical guidance and capability support to maintenance and engineering teams.
- Own and govern the enterprise-level electrical reliability strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate maintenance and asset management frameworks.
- Review, validate, and technically approve RCM, FMEA/FMECA, RCA, RAM, and predictive maintenance methodologies and outcomes.
- Act as the final technical authority for electrical bad actor elimination and major reliability improvement initiatives.
- Lead fleet-wide electrical reliability initiatives, standardization efforts, and best-practice deployment.
- Provide technical oversight, mentoring, and assurance for work produced by senior reliability and reliability engineers.
Maintenance Strategy
- Define, own, and govern portfolio-level electrical maintenance strategies across all assigned plants, ensuring reliable service delivery within approved budgetary, safety, and risk constraints.
- Define and approve long-term electrical maintenance strategies aligned with asset lifecycle stages, reliability targets, and business objectives.
- Ensure consistency and alignment of electrical maintenance strategies, methodologies, and standards across all plants and facilities.
- Govern high-voltage (HV) and low-voltage electrical safety requirements, including Electrical Safety Procedures (ESP), isolation philosophies, and safe systems of work.
- Provide technical governance and final authority over the Permit-to-Work (PTW) framework for electrical maintenance activities, ensuring correct application, authorization, and compliance for energized and de-energized work.
- Coordinate with relevant managers and stakeholders to develop, maintain, and review electrical system design, protection philosophy, and system test plans to ensure sustained and optimal system performance.
- Review, validate, and optimize electrical preventive maintenance (PM) strategies and maintenance frequencies based on asset criticality, failure behavior, condition monitoring outputs, and operating context.
- Verify that preventive maintenance activities are technically adequate, correctly scoped, and executed as intended, including periodic and random audits of PM quality and effectiveness.
- Assess the continued suitability of time-based maintenance and approve migration to condition-based or risk-based maintenance strategies where technically justified.
- Provide expert technical input to asset criticality classification, maintenance prioritization, and capital investment decisions, including major upgrades and asset replacement.
- Guide and oversee electrical maintenance work processes to ensure they are structured, effective, and consistently implemented in support of reliability and availability objectives
- Establish and maintain effective professional relationships with internal teams, suppliers, and third-party service providers to ensure technically sound, high-quality, and cost-effective maintenance and overhaul services.
- Provide technical approval and oversight for changes to electrical maintenance strategies, plans, frequencies, or task content through the Management of Change (MOC) process.
Preventive Maintenance
- Based on criticality analysis and performance information (reliability, performance and cost): defines and optimizes maintenance plans (balance reliability/performance and cost) - details a spare part policy
- Develops preventive maintenance schedule & plans for all plants in the assigned area to ensure uninterrupted operations.
- Plans and ensures implementation of preventive maintenance programs for all plants in the assigned area to decrease forced outages and to maintain designed output.
- Approve preventive and predictive maintenance philosophies for critical electrical assets.
- Govern optimization of PMO, condition-based maintenance, and digital reliability tools.
- Sponsor advanced analytics and predictive technologies deployment
Execution
- Provide independent technical assurance and challenge to maintenance execution to ensure compliance with approved strategies, standards, and safety requirements.
- Act as the escalation authority for unresolved, repeat, or chronic electrical failures requiring cross-functional or executive intervention
Contractor management
- Assists in contractor selection as per Companies procedures to ensure their pre-qualifications meet the specific requirements. Performs technical evaluation on all contracted programs.
- Maintains a positive relationship with business partner's representative to fulfil companies operational service, safety, environmental and cost targets for all JV Plants in the assigned area without unnecessary addition to the company fixed overhead.
- Act as technical authority for OEM engagement, framework agreements, and long-term service contracts.
- Approve technical specifications and scopes of work for major electrical contracts
Reporting
- Defines the required system design modifications to improve the plant availability and to improve the plant efficiency.
- Timely submission of quality Predictive Maintenance (PDM), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability Availability Maintainability Analysis (RAM) reports in a timely manner
- Present reliability performance and risk insights to senior leadership.
Continuous Improvement
- Executes structured RCA and actively uses Learning & Improvement team in order to optimize the maintenance plan.
- Adopt growth mindset
- Actively involve in development of predictive maintenance and performance-based maintenance techniques for major electrical asset.
- Organizes a debriefing for major problems
- Recommends improvements to departmental policy and direct the implementation of procedures and controls.
- Monitors the failures and execute structural RCA, resulting in optimized maintenance plans and equipment specific improvement.
- Drive innovation, benchmarking, and best-in-class reliability practices.
- Lead knowledge-sharing platforms and communities of practice.
A. Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (mandatory).
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Reliability Engineering, or Asset Management
B. Minimum Experience
- 15 + years of progressive experience in electrical engineering within asset-intensive industries (utilities, district cooling, power generation, transmission & distribution, oil & gas, heavy infrastructure).
- Demonstrated experience operating at a senior technical authority / principal engineer level, influencing enterprise-wide reliability, maintenance strategy, electrical safety, and condition-based maintenance governance.
- Proven track record in:
- Electrical reliability engineering and asset lifecycle management
- Application and governance of RCM, FMECA, RCA, and RAM methodologies
- Development, approval, and optimization of Condition-Based Maintenance (CbM) strategies for electrical assets
- High-voltage (HV) systems, protection schemes, and electrical safety governance (ESP / ESMS)
- Maintenance strategy optimization, PM effectiveness review, and migration from time-based to condition-based or risk-based maintenance
- Capital projects, asset renewal, and end-of-life decision support
- Experience overseeing or technically assuring condition monitoring programs, including interpretation of diagnostic results and translation into maintenance and risk decisions (not routine data collection).
- Experience working in complex, multi-plant or fleet environments with cross-functional stakeholder engagement
