John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. 

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards. 

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. 

This role is the technical lead on global Reliability Engineering for Maintenance Service projects, setting the technical standard. The role consults with customers on their maintenance system and related reliability/compliance challenges, proposing approaches to address them and together with our team delivering the solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Consulting with customers on their maintenance system and related reliability/compliance challenges
• Developing process and approaches to address the customers challenge, including documenting method of work statements.
• Providing recommendations to address the customers challenges
• Drive change within the customer organization
• Develop Maintenance Philosophies & Strategies
• Develop Asset Registers, hierarchies and classifications from P&IDs, PFDs, single line drawings and other data sources.
• Prepare for and conduct Preliminary Criticality Analysis studies.
• Prepare for and conduct maintenance strategy analysis (Failure Modes and Effects analysis, RCM, criticality, etc.) using proprietary software.
• Development of Planned Maintenance Routines for multi-discipline
• Construction of planned maintenance program.
• Lead workload smoothing and man-power projections.
• Consulting with Peers and Colleagues when expertise outwith domain expertise is required or a 2nd opinion is required
• Collaborate to provide spares recommendations
• Perform Project Manager role as required
• Delivering projects
• Senior technical input
• Technical lead on our Reliability Engineering for Maintenance projects – setting technical standard
• Ensure proper support is provided to facilitate the adoption of the project deliverables by the end user
• Work within the requirements of the Integrated Management System.
• Provide recommendations for the development of our tools and serviceline, to meet our customer needs and grow our serviceline
• Ensure the strict adherence to Quality, Health and Safety and Environmental management systems across the business.

Skills and Experience:

• Recognised engineering qualification or extensive practical maintenance experience.
• Experience of maintenance management practices and systems in the energy sector.
• Demonstrated experience developing asset registers, maintenance strategies and planned maintenance routines.
• Actively involved in the management, use or implementation of Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS, AIMS, ERP or EAM solutions).
• Report writing and effective communication.

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity. 

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network. 

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future. 

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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