Chief Specialist, Asset Reliability

Role purpose

Enterprise reliability and performance

• Shape enterprise reliability priorities, KPIs, and value outcomes across business units.
• Set consistent reliability and maintenance decision principles focused on high-value asset risks and opportunities.
• Provide technical authority and influence reliability strategies and solutions across operational and technology stakeholders.
• Translate asset performance, maintenance, and cost challenges into measurable improvement opportunities.
• Enable proactive, predictive, and risk-based maintenance to improve reliability, maintainability, availability, and total cost of ownership.
• Use asset performance insights to identify recurring constraints and focus on sustainable improvements.

Solutions and technology enablement

• Connect asset health monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance planning, and operational execution in end-to-end solutions.
• Establish closed-loop approaches using asset performance and maintenance outcomes to improve reliability decisions.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, interoperable, and aligned with operational requirements and enterprise technology direction.
• Align Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain stakeholders on criticality, priorities, and performance outcomes.
• Partner with analytics, AI, monitoring, and digital teams to deliver technology solutions for reliability needs.
• Integrate reliability initiatives and technical designs to reduce fragmentation and support reuse and enterprise adoption.

Technical leadership

• Advance enterprise reliability practices using proven methods, technology, and data-driven approaches.
• Build reliability capability through technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and consistent practices across relevant teams.

Minimum qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in asset reliability, maintenance, asset management, or industrial operations.
• Strong experience applying reliability engineering and maintenance strategies in asset-intensive environments.
• Experience using digital, analytics, or advanced technologies to improve asset reliability and maintenance outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience influencing reliability priorities and outcomes across multiple functions or business units.

Skills that matter

• Asset reliability and reliability engineering; maintenance strategy and asset performance management.
• Asset criticality and lifecycle optimization; predictive and condition-based maintenance.
• Reliability analytics and data-driven decision-making; total cost of ownership and value realization.
• Digital and technology-enabled reliability solutions; systems thinking and solution integration.
• Cross-functional stakeholder influence; technical leadership and capability building.

Success measures