Engineer Senior - Reliability

HECLA MINING CO.•Mullan, ID

16h

About The Position

The Senior Reliability Engineer monitors equipment condition and performance against plan and provides consultation and technical support to improve equipment reliability and reduce equipment costs. The role identifies and eliminates sources of defects and implements maintenance and operational improvements at the Lucky Friday Mine. It also provides guidance to junior-level department engineers and collaborates with peers across Hecla operations, key OEMs, and site departments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
At least five years of experience in reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.
Computer literacy and proficiency in Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Experience with computerized maintenance management systems.

Nice To Haves

Mining industry experience, including general knowledge of surface, underground, and mill operations.

Responsibilities

Lead regular, formal downtime analyses for critical equipment, including crushers, pumps, conveyors, hoists, the chiller plant, mechanical mining equipment, and underground mobile fleet; use findings to identify, quantify, and advance initiatives that improve reliability, cost outcomes, and performance.
Produce reliability content for the site monthly operations report, including metrics such as plant reliability cost impact and work management KPIs.
Work with maintenance planners and foremen to oversee and steward the site CMMS asset hierarchy, ensuring it is complete, accurate, and consistent.
Conduct cyclical asset criticality reviews with maintenance and operations personnel and use the results to prioritize reliability and work management initiatives.
Coordinate the site condition-monitoring program and provide technical guidance on OA, VA, MPI/UT, thermography, and related areas.
Oversee and use a formal defect-elimination process to identify repetitive equipment failures and promote proactive maintenance activities that support sustained reliability and the overall reliability program.
Monitor and report leading and lagging maintenance KPIs.
Own the mobile fleet defect-elimination processes.
Lead maintenance cost-reduction and reliability-improvement projects.
Identify ways to improve equipment maintainability, reliability, and availability using formal and informal reliability engineering techniques.
Perform FMEA on changes to maintenance tactics, including PMs.
Manage an ongoing formal PMO (Preventative Maintenance Optimization) program.
Facilitate or lead root-cause failure analyses using relevant systematic RCA techniques; support and document resulting corrective actions and analyses.
Alert Maintenance and Operations Foremen to equipment abuse and operating practices that cause failures, reduce reliability, or increase maintenance costs.
Provide technical guidance to maintenance and operations departments on equipment and reliability issues and technologies.
Collaborate with peers at other Hecla operations and share good practices across the group.
Keep abreast of technologies applicable to the Lucky Friday Mine and champion those that benefit the operation.
Develop productive partnerships with key OEMs to improve equipment performance and reliability.
Work with purchasing, engineering, and operations to consider equipment reliability in planning, procurement, equipment changes, spare-parts selection, and inventory control.
Develop, adapt, and publish standards and guidelines that improve equipment reliability, including those for PM, procurement, inventory parts, installation, and work execution.
Audit and maintain equipment structure lists in IFS, ensuring accurate data and suitable hierarchies.
Provide guidance to junior-level department engineers.