The Senior Consultant I – Reliability Consultant is responsible for leading and
supporting reliability consulting engagements focused on reliability-based
maintenance. This role requires technical expertise in asset management and
maintenance best practices to support client projects, centered around
maintenance optimization. The consultant would be capable of working
independently, serving as the primary owner of project deliverables. This
position requires the ability to perform projects in the field, interpret
technical documentation, and travel to client sites as needed.
What You Will Do:
Conduct asset walkdowns to create a Master Asset List (MAL). Will need to
collect, verify, and document equipment information, including manufacturer,
model number, serial number, nameplate data, and other relevant equipment
attributes.
Develop, review, and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) for client assets and
equipment.
Create preventive maintenance (PM) tasks, job plans, and programs from the
ground up and revise existing PMs as required.
Support and/or lead asset criticality ranking efforts to prioritize
maintenance and reliability improvement activities.
Review and interpret Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), OEM
manuals, vendor-supplied documents, and other technical asset documentation.
Participate in Asset Strategy Optimization (ASO) initiatives to improve
maintenance effectiveness, reliability performance, and lifecycle asset
management.
Perform spare parts analyses (SPA) to support maintenance planning, inventory
optimization, and equipment reliability.
Provide technical expertise on project tasks under the supervision of a
project manager to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and
within available budget to meet customer requirements.
Demonstrate a firm understanding of business and implement opportunities for
enhancing effectiveness and efficiencies on assigned projects and amongst
team members.
Develop relationships with existing customers to facilitate development of
new business opportunities for current and/or additional services.
Represent ABS Group and participate in promoting our products and services.
While the position is remote, regular travel (50%+) to client sites and
project locations is a core part of the role.
What You Will Need:
Education and Experience
A minimum of a bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in work experience and
training.
A minimum of 6+ years of experience is preferred.
Professional certification preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
Experience in reliability consulting within industrial, manufacturing,
energy, or process plant environments.
Experience with asset data analysis, reporting tools, and technical
documentation systems.
Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, OEM manuals, vendor documentation, and
other technical equipment records.
Ability to gain, retain, illustrate comprehension of learned technical
knowledge, and transfer knowledge to other members of the team
Ability to mentor/coach entry-level consultants and hone technical skills in
others
Ability to actively listen to the needs of our clients by receiving shared
information, determining context of the information provided and generating
probing questions to better understand, retaining the information for future
access, engaging and collaborating with sales team on potential
opportunities, and responding with solutions
Openly accept change as part of business evolution to meet the needs of our
clients, provide recommendations to enhance business, and drive change
amongst colleagues and on assigned projects
Possess a firm understanding of key performance indicators and their
significance to the business and take action to drive results amongst their
department
Ability to utilize established rapport and role as a subject matter expert
with existing clients to facilitate development of new business through
identifying and consistently generating new business opportunities
Ability to coach others on development of customer intimacy and new
opportunities
Must take responsibility for their actions, behaviors, decisions, and results
and those of the team they lead
Ability to utilize root cause analysis to improve performance
Must understand departmental goals and holds self and team members
accountable for keeping commitments and high standards
Must acknowledge and learn from mistakes
Must be dependable and consistent
Must actively participate in daily activities
Ability to demonstrate independent, objective, open-minded thinking with
strong attention to detail and sound judgment
Demonstrate a proficient level of time management skills
Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental
Management System.
Reporting Relationships:
Reports to a manager, director, or executive-level position and does not have
any direct reports.