APQ Maintenance Subject Matter Expert

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 Maintenance Manager with the overall execution of the 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.
• 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.
• Execute and train the maintenance team on the maintenance management systems and optimize the usage. SAP is the primary tool.
• Provide training and gudince on 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. 
• Share the knowledge and the development of the Material Management philosophy, processes and procedures including, Spare Part criticality assessments, Spare Part Interchangeability Records, Bills of Materials and warehouse inventory stock levels.
• Understand and implement processes and procedures amongst the O&M team for the Asset Management and Equipment Life Cycle and equipment efficiency and obscolecense.
• 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 support for major initiatives, which includes SAP releases, acquisitions & divestitures, reliability and data projects.
• Provide support and training towards the goal of reliability improvement through the use of live and historical data.
• Drive the work process across 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 goals.
• Foster and support positive working relationships with internal and external customers.
• Support, mentor, and develop local Engineering & Operations & Maintenance teams.
• Provide and teach the required know how to solve technical problems and provide technical solutions for others to implement which cannot be directly resolved within existing standards and procedures and clear interpretation of legislative requirements.
• Assist in managing technical decisions related to the execution of the projects & the operations and maintenance of the installations supported within approved budgets. The decisions are related to asset management decisions, shut downs, & refurbishment priorities.
• Approve engineering drawings, procedures, standards and specifications.