Sr. Engineer (Asset Management and Reliability) - Cameco Corporation - SK
(2025-03 - 2025-12)
- Developed and implemented comprehensive asset maintenance strategies including BOMs and maintenance task lists to minimize life cycle costs and optimize preventive maintenance processes across critical assets.
- Conducted rigorous Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and drove loss elimination initiatives, ensuring corrective actions were effectively translated into sustainable reliability improvements.
- Led the seamless integration of maintenance strategies and reliability programs into SAP and Bentley APM, ensuring data integrity and alignment with operational and business requirements.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with reliability engineers and process owners to develop and standardize programs and procedures, establishing industry-leading reliability practices across the organization.
Senior Reliability Engineer - Ballard Power System - Burnaby, BC, Canada
(2020-11 - 2024-09)
- Led end-to-end Reliability and Warranty Modeling of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engines and systems, leveraging P&IDs, design data sheets, requirements, and Weibull analysis to drive data-driven reliability decisions.
- Administered the FRACAS process and Failure Review Board (FRB), ensuring rigorous root cause analysis (RCA) and timely implementation of corrective actions in alignment with business requirements.
- Partnered with systems and engineering leads to define reliability requirements and parameters, while advising maintenance and costing teams on PM strategy development, warranty planning, and inventory level estimation.
- Mentored and trained junior engineers on RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety) principles, tools, and best practices, while identifying and standardizing reliability techniques, procedures, and methods across the organization.
Senior Reliability Engineer - Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Contract) - Fort McMurray, AB
(2019-01 - 2020-12)
- Led and developed plant Equipment Strategies based on RCM, Risk-Based Work Selection, criticality, and cost benefit analysis.
- Created and optimized asset strategies to increase equipment availability using reliability methodologies.
- Identified, managed, and mitigated product and process risks by developing equipment strategy through the implementation of Risk matrix, FMECA, RBI, CBM (Condition Based Monitoring) and RCM3.
- Investigated reasons for equipment failures and developed solutions to address the root cause (i.e., re-design equipment, work with vendors to supply new or modified components).
Reliability Eng. Consultant - Rio Tinto (Contract) - Labrador City, NL
(2018-01 - 2018-12)
- Led a Defect Elimination project utilizing RCM to develop and improve preventative maintenance strategies, driving measurable gains in asset OEE across diverse mining equipment including trucks, tracks, auxiliary systems, conveyor belts, and shovels.
- Developed and tracked equipment KPIs and performance metrics, conducting Root Cause Failure Analyses (RCAs), asset integrity reviews, and criticality analyses to identify deficiencies and execute targeted action plans that improved asset reliability and integrity.
Reliability Engineer - Suncor Energy Inc. - Fort McMurray, AB
(2014-08 - 2017-06)
- Served as the Reliability Engineering Representative for haul trucks and mobile mining support equipment, leading RCM-based PM strategy development.
- Conducted comprehensive Root Cause Failure Analyses (RCFA) on mechanical, metallurgical, and corrosion-related component failures.
- Developed and standardized inspection strategies and certification procedures for all critical assets, including NDE regulatory items, new inspection technologies, and defined frequencies.
- Authored and executed Management of Change (MOC) packages into SAP for reliability projects and equipment upgrades, consulting on safety-driven design improvements and welding work scope development for mobile mining equipment to eliminate future failures.
- Monitored equipment performance and maintenance data to proactively identify trends, degradation patterns, and improvement opportunities.
Sr. Reliability Engineer - Brandt Industries - Regina, SK, Canada
(2011-07 - 2013-12)
- Introduced reliability engineering to all four divisions and led DFMEA, HALT and FMECA.
- Designed reliability tests (Burn-in and HALT) plan, analysis and validation process and improved company goodwill by improving designs.
- Developed and upgraded shop equipment maintenance strategies by determining equipment criticality, optimizing predictive and preventative maintenance strategies, assessing replacement needs/opportunities.
- Provided leadership, technical expertise, and training to engineers on different reliability and product improvement tools.
Reliability Engineer - Caterpillar Hydrauliques Inc. - Champaign, IL, USA
(2007-08 - 2011-07)
- Developed corporate DFMEA, controls and APQP matrix.
- Conducted Reliability analysis during design, development, and production phase.
- Developed Reliability gap and carryover analysis and delivery during the management review meeting.
- Achieved and analyzed (Failure rate, MTBF, MTTR, FTA, FMECA failure mode and mechanism, Weibull) field failure data and predicted the reliability of global NPI (New Product Introduction) projects.
- Justified parts, groups and systems posing excessive failure risks; provided engineering support for proposed changes in design and manufacturing.
