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Reliability Engineer

Employer
Hecla Mining Company
Location
Juneau, AK, United States
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Feb 9, 2022

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Category
Engineering
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English


As our Reliability Engineer, you willperform daily reliability engineering techniques, data analysis, improvement projects and defect elimination for underground and surface mobile equipment in an underground hard rock mining operation to keep our production going and our profitability up. Every day you will work at a mine on a remote island about 18 miles outside of Juneau, Alaska. You’ll start every day organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing work activities to ensure timely completion of projects, programs, and objectives. You will be called upon to coordinate with Mine Operations providing technical support. To thrive in this role, you will develop and improve equipment management strategies using a suite of reliability approaches. We’re on a remote island, you must know how to work independently, identify, and resolve problems in a timely manner.

About Us

The Greens Creek Mine, located on Admiralty Island 18 miles south of Juneau, is an underground polymetallic mine operating since 1989, employing approximately 450 people. The mine is owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company, headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Established in 1891, Hecla has a rich history as a distinguished and respected precious metals producer. Winner of numerous safety and environmental awards, Greens Creek is seeking new team members committed to professional growth and success.

Here’s what you can expect in this role:

  • Training first. Every hire is provided MSHA training in the first 4 days on the job. We also provide department-level training on not just what to do, but safety, as well.
  • Apply your technical aptitude using root cause analysis in the investigation of failures.
  • You will routinely contribute to the planning of realistic production capacity based on the analysis of preventive/predictive maintenance time needs, repair histories, inspection reports, reliability reports and reliability analysis
  • Relocate to Juneau and work on a remote island. You will take a boat commute to work every day. Every department is slightly different, but our engineer department works 4 days on for 10 hours each, followed by 3 days off.
  • You will apply value analysis (cost vs. benefit) in making maintenance decisions concerning repair, replacement, or redesign of equipment and systems
  • .Safety is important. Every piece of equipment and each work area must be inspected before work starts. You will promote and personally observe safety procedures.
  • A team you can rely on, a team that will have your back.

If you’re interested in this role, apply on our website at this link:http://www.hecla-mining.com/careers/

We have a three-part interview process. You must complete the self-assessment that will be sent to you via e-mail after you have completed your application. Then, if you are selected, our first interview will be a phone or video interview. Finally, if you are selected to move forward, you will be invited to a mine site and Juneau visit.

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