Senior Asset Improvement Engineer

About Tronox Tronox is the world’s leading vertically integrated manufacturer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment and other materials that add brightness and durability to products you encounter every day. We are 5,700 people strong, located across six continents and unified by a strong set of values that guide us in our work. At our mines and manufacturing plants, labs and offices, we responsibly transform the earth’s resources into products and opportunities that enhance lives. Our vision is to shape a sustainable, thriving world through enriched and refined minerals.

About The Role As the Asset Improvement Engineer, you will serve as a mechanical asset management subject matter expert, within the T&I department. You will facilitate asset management strategies and initiatives to support our Northern Operations to optimize asset performance. In this role, you will be influencing and enabling stakeholders through communication, reliability approaches and asset life cycle support to meet business objectives.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• As mechanical subject matter expert assist in developing engineering strategies, standards, and programs with the key purpose to optimize the performance of physical assets and ensure asset integrity as well as execute or assist in executing such programs.
• Assist in ensuring and maintaining a healthy, safe, and legislative compliant work environment.
• Manage and participate in the feasibility, design, planning, construction, and commissioning of major mechanical plant upgrades.
• Work with maintenance teams to identify, plan, and prioritize asset improvements and develop asset integrity registers.
• Coordinate Asset Integrity Programs.
• Provide asset management support to Project Managers, Reliability Engineers, and Maintenance Managers.
• Assist in Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization related programs.
• Provide engineering related training (RWM, RCFA, RCM etc.)
• Conduct/ Facilitate major RCFAs.
• Provide support to organizational strategies (SAP S/4 HANA, Best Cost Country Sourcing and other Operational Excellence initiatives).
• Drive the development and updating of the MR Capital (Maintenance Replacement) for the 5 Year Capital Plan.

About You

• B Eng./B Sc./B Tech. Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, NQF Level 7 (Mandatory)

• Physical Asset Management Certification (Added Advantage)

• Professionally Registered with ECSA (Added Advantage)

• Maintenance & Reliability Certification (Added Advantage)

• Government Certificate of Competency (Added Advantage)

• Driver’s license (Mandatory)

• Minimum 7 years mechanical engineering and maintenance experience in a heavy industry environment (Mandatory)

• Reliability Engineering experience (Mandatory)

• Project Management experience (Added Advantage)

• General knowledge of all engineering disciplines

• Physical Asset Management principles

• Asset maintenance plan development

• Asset life cycle costing and replacement strategies

• Reliability engineering techniques

• Root cause analysis techniques

• Risk management techniques

• Facilitation of workshops for problem solving, strategy development, value engineering and root cause analysis

• Auditing (work practices against standards and asset condition) and report writing

• Project management principles

• Asset management information systems

• Planning, organizational and communication skills

• High levels of computer literacy:

• MS Office Suite (Mandatory)

• SAP & AutoCAD (Added Advantage)

Why Join Tronox? Our global reach is strengthened by our human connections. We challenge one another to deliver excellence and encourage our people to think big. Together, we develop innovations that make products vibrant and durable as we contribute to a cleaner world.

When you join Tronox, you’ll work with brilliant people, close to home and around the world. We offer a dynamic, supportive environment that empowers you to achieve your fullest potential — because we recognize that when you grow, we grow.

In addition to offering a competitive salary and benefits, we provide a work experience that prioritizes what truly matters:

• We strive for excellence in safety and sustainability, focusing on what is critical to improve how we operate and to enhance the communities where we work and live.
• We provide challenging work and encourage innovative thinking, collaborating closely to bring our best ideas forward and add value for our customers.
• We invest in and value the success of our people, empowering them to take charge of their personal and professional development.
• We are unified globally and strengthened locally, leveraging the most culturally and geographically diverse team in the industry to connect better around the world.