Description
At WSSC Water, we are passionate about our one water mission and devoted to delivering safe, seamless, and satisfying service to our 1.9 million customers. It takes teamwork to deliver the essential, which is why we proudly call ourselves Team H2O – working together, sharing our talents and creativity to safeguard public health and protect the environment.
WSSC Water is seeking an Asset Reliability Specialist to implement reliability methods and strategies that optimize maintenance and operations at WSSC Water Production facilities, reducing asset life-cycle costs. This role leads Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) initiatives to establish proactive maintenance standards.
Key Job Functions:
- Leads the implementation of risk-based asset maintenance plans
- Develops and implements asset condition-based maintenance (CBM) program
- Develops and implements a preventive maintenance (PM) Optimization program
- Leads the Production Department reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and root cause analysis (RCA) program initiatives
- Assists with the development, review, implementation, and enforcement of technical specifications related to design and construction work
- Develops, facilitates, and leads Reliability training programs
- Provides technical management and support for the development of Production asset hierarchy
- Execute statistical methods to analyze asset failure data to determine the need for adjustments in maintenance, repair, overhaul (MRO) inventory, planned maintenance frequencies, and equipment design
- Uses statistical methods and reliability modeling to determine optimized equipment maintenance strategies based on key metric such as: cost of process downtime, cost of direct maintenance, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), environmental, health, and safety (EHS)
- Provides overall guidance to the Production Department Asset Management Steering Committee
- Leads cross-functional project teams managing projects with varying degrees of complexity
- Collaborates with cross-functional staff (Engineers, Maintenance Technicians, Operators, Asset Strategy Managers, etc.) to identify maintenance, operations, and capital improvement opportunities
- Establishes Asset Reliability policies and procedures for the Production Department
- Collaborates with Production Department stakeholders to implement reliability program recommendations
- Analyses Production process operating and maintenance costs, for economic comparisons, to recommend Production process equipment upgrades and/or process modifications
- Drives a vehicle to conduct WSSC Water business
Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 6+ years technical experience in water, wastewater, or similar industrial operations
OR
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 10+ years technical experience in water, wastewater, or similar industrial operations
Preferences:
- Experience working on construction or maintenance tasks at water or wastewater utility facilities or commercial building facilities
- Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification
- Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT) certification
- Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) certification
- Certified Maintenance Manager (CMM) certification
- Certified Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
- Design and/or construction experience with water/wastewater project
