Engineering Consultant – Reliability Specialist

Role Overview

• We are seeking a Reliability Engineering Consultant who will serve as the technical authority on reliability and asset lifecycle management, influencing strategic decisions, supporting three metallurgical plants, and ensuring consistent application of advanced methods that maximize availability, performance, safety and return on assets over time.

Requirements

• Develop, review and implement the corporate asset management policy, defining roles and responsibilities, governance and process flows.
• Lead efforts to ensure compliance with asset management and reliability governance and processes at the smelter.
• Act as the corporate specialist for handling complex failures and chronic issues, triggered by defined technical criteria (e.g., Jack‑Knife), ensuring robust root‑cause analyses and systemic replication of solutions across other plants.
• Ensure, as the functional authority, that new projects, expansions and modifications meet reliability, maintainability, safety and risk requirements from concept through commissioning, preventing early failures and hidden lifecycle costs across all three plants (initial oversight).
• Conduct and validate strategic trade‑off studies for renewal, modernization or decommissioning of assets, integrating technical, economic, operational and risk criteria.
• Lead high‑impact corporate projects aimed at increasing reliability, availability and predictability of critical assets.
• Define, standardize and act as methodological guardian of the corporate process for creating, governing and reviewing the 60‑month Asset Plan, ensuring technical consistency and improved accuracy of long‑term projections (horizon ≥ 5 years).
• Apply and guide the use of advanced quantitative and qualitative reliability and risk methods (LDA, RAM, RGA, RBD, Weibull, FMEA, RCM, HAZOP, Bowtie, RCFA, among others), supporting strategic decisions and capital investments.
• Perform in‑depth loss and performance analyses (OEE, MTBF, MTTR), prioritizing critical assets, identifying systemic bottlenecks and directing improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a technical mentor and promoter of best practices, raising the maturity level of local teams and strengthening the corporate reliability and asset management culture.

Benefits

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Postgraduate degree in Reliability Engineering.
• Solid and proven experience in reliability and asset management in large, complex industrial environments.
• Knowledge of systems, assemblies and equipment related to zinc metallurgical processing.
• Mastery of advanced reliability methodologies, risk analysis and data‑driven decision making.
• Ability to influence strategically, systems thinking and technical communication with executive and operational audiences.
• Willingness to travel.
• Required: Intermediate to advanced level of Spanish.
• Preferred: Knowledge of the mining‑metallurgical process; management and continuous improvement systems; experience in Lean Six Sigma projects.
• Previous experience in a corporate role, consultancy or as a technical specialist.
• Proficiency in failure analysis methodologies; statistical data analysis.
• Analytical and critical thinking; adaptability.