Reliability Engineering Consultant - Specialist

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Job Summary: We are seeking a Reliability Engineering Consultant to serve as a technical reference in asset lifecycle management, influencing strategic decisions and maximizing performance. Key Highlights: 1. Serve as a technical reference in reliability and asset management 2. Influence strategic decisions and maximize performance 3. Apply advanced methods to optimize reliability In line with our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we actively encourage applications from **women** for this position. Therefore, we welcome all qualified candidates regardless of gender, identity, or any other characteristic to join our team for this role. We are a company that connects and integrates our business with society's needs. This is how we develop mining—always attuned to change, supported by committed, inspired, and continuously developing people. Join Nexa and be part of a mining company that moves with the world! **Responsibilities and Duties** We are seeking a **Reliability Engineering Consultant**, who will serve as a technical reference in reliability and asset lifecycle management at the GGDO smelter, influencing strategic decisions, supporting all three metallurgical plants, and ensuring consistent application of advanced methods to maximize availability, performance, safety, and return on assets over time. * Develop, review, and implement the corporate asset management policy, including definitions of roles and responsibilities, governance, and workflows. * Take ownership in ensuring compliance with asset management and reliability workflows and governance at the smelter. * Act as a corporate specialist in addressing complex failures and chronic issues, triggered by defined technical criteria (e.g., Jack\-Knife), ensuring robust root cause analyses and systemic replication of solutions across other plants. * As the functional authority, ensure that new projects, expansions, and modifications meet reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk requirements—from conceptual phase through commissioning—to prevent early failures and hidden lifecycle costs across all three plants (initial control). * Lead and validate strategic trade\-off studies for asset renewal, modernization, or decommissioning, integrating technical, economic, operational, and risk criteria. * Lead high-impact, structural corporate projects aimed at increasing reliability, availability, and predictability of critical assets. Define, standardize, and act as the methodological guardian of the corporate process for building, governing, and reviewing the 60-Month Asset Plan, ensuring technical consistency and greater accuracy in long-term projections (5-year horizon). * Apply and guide the use of advanced quantitative and qualitative reliability and risk methodologies (LDA, RAM, RGA, RBD, Weibull, FMEA, RCM, HAZOP, Bowtie RCFA, among others), supporting strategic decisions and capital investments. * Conduct in-depth loss and performance analyses (OEE, MTBF, MTTR), prioritizing critical assets, identifying systemic bottlenecks, and directing improvement initiatives. * Serve as a technical mentor and promoter of best practices, elevating local teams’ maturity level and reinforcing the corporate culture of reliability and asset management. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. * Postgraduate degree in Reliability Engineering. * Proven, solid experience in reliability and asset management within large-scale, complex industrial environments. * Knowledge of systems, assemblies, and equipment related to zinc metallurgical processes. * Proficiency in advanced reliability methodologies, risk analysis, and data-driven decision-making. * Strategic influence capability, systemic vision, and ability to communicate technically with executive and operational audiences. * Willingness to travel. * Intermediate/advanced Spanish required. **Desirable:** * Knowledge of mining-metallurgical processes; management and continuous improvement systems; experience in Lean Six Sigma projects. * Prior experience in a corporate, consulting, or technical specialist role. * Proficiency in failure analysis methodologies; statistical data analysis. * Analytical and critical thinking; adaptability. **Additional Information** * This role has a corporate scope, supporting smelter units in Peru and Brazil. ***Nexa believes in fostering a plural environment where everyone feels comfortable and empowered to be their authentic selves.*** We are one of the world’s largest zinc producers! With over 60 years of experience operating and developing mining and metallurgical assets, our purpose is to integrate mining into an ever-changing world as an opportunity for sustainable development. We operate eight sites across Brazil and Peru—including three refineries and five mines—such as Cerro Lindo, the largest underground zinc mine in Peru, and Cajamarquilla, the largest zinc refinery in the Americas. Collectively, we account for 4% of global zinc production and are the only primary zinc metal producer in Latin America, excluding Mexico. We also produce copper, lead, silver, and gold as co-products. Nexa—mining that evolves with the world.