AirSWIFT Hiring! Full Time Reliability Team Lead in Perak - Ricebowl

JOB SUMMARY: Lead the operational and maintenance reliability function at Vale Malaysia Minerals, ensuring safe, reliable, and sustainable port operations. Manage a multidisciplinary team of reliability engineers to analyze asset performance, identify loss profiles, and drive corrective actions. Implement reliability‑centered maintenance (RCM) strategies and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize asset availability and productivity.

• Area of Responsibility: Vale Malaysia Minerals (VMM) Operations, Seri Manjung, Perak.
• Experience: At least 10 years of experience in technical leadership roles within maintenance, reliability, or process plant technical management.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to identify and evaluate options, assess risks, and make informed decisions aligned with organizational objectives.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams, stakeholders, and senior management.
• People Leadership: Responsible for leading and developing a team of approximately 15 direct reports.

• Strong knowledge of asset maintenance management principles and reliability strategies.
• Proven track record of leading multidisciplinary technical teams, including mechanical, electrical, automation, structural, and civil engineers.
• Solid understanding of asset loss profile analysis and investigation methodologies.
• Proficient in reliability engineering methodologies, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Reliability‑Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Criticality Analysis.
• Strong knowledge of problem‑solving and decision‑making tools and methodologies.

The position is responsible for:

• Provide technical leadership to teams responsible for asset reliability processes, ensuring that Vale Malaysia's productivity targets are achieved safely, sustainably, and in compliance with Vale's standards and guidelines.
• Ensure assets operate at optimal conditions and achieve the production target by analyzing availability, loss profiles and reliability performance, while ensuring that corrective actions are effectively tracked, implemented, and completed.
• Promote integration and collaboration across departments to enable unified decision‑making and drive the achievement of common goals.

• Lead and promote safety, environmental, and risk management initiatives.
• Lead, coach, and support the development of direct‑report team members.
• Lead a team of reliability engineers, including mechanical, electrical, automation, and reliability specialists, in conducting loss profile analyses.
• Coordinate weekly and monthly reliability meetings and ensure their effectiveness, including board of directors.
• Lead the investigation of loss profiles, failure analyses, and action plan management.
• Coordinate and drive daily performance reviews based on loss profile findings.
• Lead technical discussions, including troubleshooting, engineering analyses, and failure investigations.
• Drive the application of Reliability‑Centered Maintenance (RCM) methodology.
• Lead improvement projects based on loss profile findings and reliability studies.
• Perform and lead basic engineering activities focused on reliability improvement and loss reduction.
• Improve asset reliability by increasing Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), while meeting or exceeding Vale's targets.
• Deploy and ensure compliance with Vale's corporate engineering standards across all VMM departments.
• Maintain open and effective communication channels with the Corporate Engineering Department.

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in engineering with relevant experience, including at least 10 years in technical leadership roles.
• Specific Knowledge: 5–10 years of proven experience in managing maintenance and reliability teams responsible for bulk material handling equipment, such as conveyor belts, stackers, stacker‑reclaimers, ship unloaders, ship loaders, and sampling systems.
• Industry Experience: Experience managing technical and operational excellence teams within mining, port operations, oil and gas processing plants, or other heavy industries is an added advantage.
• Professional Qualifications: Postgraduate qualifications and professional certifications are advantageous, including Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Master's degree, MBA, Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent certifications.