About The Role

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.