Reliability and Maintenance System Engineer

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

**Reimagine What’s Possible**

The Reliability and Maintenance Systems Engineer, reporting to the Reliability & Maintenance Systems Manager, is responsible for supporting the Reliability & Systems Manager for managing the reliability and maintenance work processes, data quality within the SAP Plant Maintenance module and its functionality.

The Maintenance Systems Group broadly encompasses services to all the operating and maintenance organization that utilizes the SAP PM module. This includes Tonnage and Merchant Gases, HyCO, Hydrogen for Mobility (H2fM), and Pipelines. The incumbent supports the Maintenance Leadership Team.

The Reliability and Maintenance Systems team stewards the SAP Master Data and associated tools, which includes Equipment data, Preventive Maintenance Programs and related Work Processes. The group provides new and refresher training, training materials, and practical user support.

Through the Systems and Tools, the incumbent will also have responsibility to support and enable alignment around effective maintenance work processes, their continued development, and align with global implementation to further the efficiency with which maintenance is managed and executed. This will require work process understanding, collaboration and leadership to drive a cycle of continuous improvement.

This role works closely with Maintenance and Technical groups, Plant Management, OPEX, GEMTE, HSSE, and others within and outside of the APQ Operations & Maintence Department. The position requires leadership and management skills, strong interpersonal skills, solid computer strengths, and expertise in a broad range of maintenance and engineering functions, and an aptitude for SAP. The ability to guide, influence and persuade highly technical, independent thinkers is essential. The incumbent should possess an engineering or technical degree, and 10+ years of experience in Engineering, Maintenance, or Operations.

**PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES**

**Safety**
- Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent all injuries.

**Technical**
- Support the Reliability & Maintenance Solutions Manager with the overall management of reliability and maintenance work processes. Ensure local alignment and implementation to the Air Products Global Maintenance Systems Group. Continually develops the work processes and supporting tools to deliver efficiency gains within maintenance.
- Support the Reliability & Maintenance Solutions Manager as the Enterprise Design Owner (EDO) for PM Master Data. Submit and/or approve configuration changes, role adjustments, and refinements to data standards.
- Develop and document work processes for categories of plants, facilities and services, with the objective of standardizing globally.
- Lead and coordinate reliability processes such as FMEA, RCA, 5 Why and other root cause analysis to reduce equipment failure downtime and maximize equipment availability.
- Coordinate effective use of our maintenance management systems and optimize the usage. SAP is the primary tool.
- Establish the procedures, work processes and data standards to consistently manage equipment data, PM tasks, work history and associated practices. Enable the assignment of spare parts and MI inspection strategies within the tool.
- Maintain role-based training materials and Job Aids and, deliver new and refresher training. Maintain a network of PM Power Users to provide this service.
- Develop and sustain the tools and methods to report PM Compliance. Process Safety and MI Compliance are key aspects.
- Within the Team, develop and refine the tools and skills that enable efficient data collection and manipulation. This involves tools for Equipment and PM Program builds, auditing and mass loading of data. New plants, Plant Project Engineering projects and eMOC-driven changes are included.
- Provide resources and support for major initiatives, which includes SAP releases, acquisitions & divestitures, reliability and data projects.
- Support the goal of reliability improvement through the use of live and historical data.
- Manage a diverse, global team with varied skill sets and deliverables. Foster a collaborative organization that practices teamwork, information sharing and collaboration.

**Professional**:

- Promote an atmosphere of team spirit through good example, open communication, good listening, and timely problem resolutions.
- Promote reliability philosophy behaviour through out all disciplines.
- Drive continuous improvement in safety performance, reliability, and cost of quality