General Manager Mechanical Reliability - Onsite Operations

In this role you will maintain 100% compliance in SHEQ (Safety Health Environment Quality) requirements related to mechanical rotary, static equipment and human safety aspects, drive and perform reliability / safety audit of mechanical systems and related workflows, define and follow up on the resulting actions. Further, you will ensure that mechanical systems support is provided to the operating sites on timely manner and ensure that maintenance for mechanical systems is adequate, cost efficient and in compliance to Linde work processes. Additionally, you will review and approve mechanical scope of major turnarounds and ensure the site teams get adequate expert support in emergency situations, in the investigation of mechanical system related failures, in the preparation of contingency plans to be used at sites, in RCA's, in developing and completing actions for reliability Improvement. Furthermore, you will develop implement a strategy for the sourcing, replacement, engineering, maintenance and troubleshooting of mechanical systems which include, defining the activities to be insourced/outsourced, standardization of equipment and service providers (incl. rate contracts / blanket orders etc., identification, selection development of service providers, identification of obsolescence issues and planning execution of suitable upgrade exchange programs, application and ongoing management of condition-based maintenance strategies and the associated data. Likewise, you will review downtime reporting of mechanical system failures at sites in the region, review internal and external maintenance costs and look for cost reduction opportunities, review open actions for sites and track them to closure, report implementation status of initiatives resulting from alerts, technical bulletins, lessons from reliability events and directives. Reviewing and/or approving all major modifications and configuration changes to the mechanical systems and ensuring update of the related plant documents in document management system after modification is a part of your responsibility. Moreover, for mechanical systems of new plants or process units you will ensure that relevant requirements are defined and reviewed by members of the team, mechanical system structures vendors are compliant with Linde standards and specific project/site requirements, team members participate in relevant project reviews and acceptance (incl. factory and site acceptance tests, handover of systems), respective team members and maintenance teams are trained to operate, maintain and troubleshoot the new systems, all necessary documents are handed over, are of good quality and are stored in a standardized way, vendors service providers are aligned with Linde maintenance teams for troubleshooting and service, 'Integrate new assets' workflow is applied through the Region with respect to mechanical systems.