Summary
Kuwait Steel is seeking a Lead Electrical Reliability Technician for its operations in Al-Shuaiba, Al Ahmadi Governorate. The role involves condition monitoring, electrical equipment inspections, diagnosing abnormalities, documenting failure evidence, and supporting root cause investigations and shutdown assessments. The technician will maintain reliability records in SAP-PM, prepare reports, and support audits and budget preparation with Reliability Engineers. Candidates need a relevant technical qualification and electrical maintenance experience in steel or other heavy industry, with experience requirements varying by qualification.
The posting
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Job Responsibilities:
- Carry-out condition-based monitoring activities (coordination and data collection), such as vibration analysis, thermography, and ultrasound analysis to detect early failures, in all plants.
- Provide diagnoses based on analysis of CBM data collection, for common patterns.
- Document failure modes on site.
- Collect physical evidence (photos, measurements, parts condition).
- Support RCA investigations.
- Validate abnormal trends before escalation.
- Confirm condition monitoring alerts.
- Support shutdown reliability assessments.
- Ensure measurement points are correctly recorded in SAP-PM.
- Maintain historical reliability logs.
- Support Weibull data collection.
- Prepare condition-based monitoring activities reports.
- Support Reliability Engineers in preparing weekly, monthly and annual reports.
- Support Reliability Engineers in conducting annual audit in all plants, using the Reliability assessment grid.
- Support Reliability Engineers in conducting work quality audits during shutdowns.
▪Support Reliability Engineers in the budget preparation with technical information and analyses.
Required Qualifications:
-Vocational/Technical Certificate, Diploma, or Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Maintenance, Industrial Electrical Systems, Instrumentation, Electronics, or a related discipline.
Preferred Experience:
-Vocational/Technical Certificate: Minimum 7 years of electrical maintenance experience in steel industry or heavy industry operations.
-Diploma: Minimum 5 years of electrical maintenance experience in steel industry or heavy industry operations.
-Bachelor's Degree: Minimum 3 years of electrical maintenance experience in steel industry or heavy industry operations.
Relevant Experience may include:
-Experience performing condition monitoring, equipment inspection, and equipment condition assessment activities in steel plants or similar heavy industrial environments.
-Prior experience guiding technicians in steel plants, rolling mills, or similar continuous process industries.
-Prior experience supporting reliability improvement activities, equipment diagnostics, and maintenance teams in continuous process industries.
Job-Specific Skills:
-Ability to support condition monitoring and reliability assessment activities.
-Ability to support inspection, condition assessment, and troubleshooting of electrical equipment.
-Ability to perform and interpret condition monitoring activities including vibration monitoring, thermography, ultrasound inspection, and other diagnostic techniques.
-Ability to identify equipment abnormalities, performance deviations, and potential failure indicators, and support corrective actions.
-Ability to coordinate and guide technicians during reliability inspections, condition monitoring activities, and field data collection.
-Ability to verify inspection quality, measurement accuracy, and compliance with reliability and maintenance standards.
-Effective communication and coordination with Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Supervisors, Technicians, and cross-functional teams.
-Ability to support maintenance teams during breakdowns, shutdowns, equipment assessments, and reliability improvement activities.
-Strong adherence to Safety Standards, SOPs, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), and emergency procedures.