Senior Lead, Reliability

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Workplace Type: Hybrid

About our Vancouver Office

Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains, Teck’s Corporate Office sits in one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities. 

Surrounded by world-renowned nature and globally inspired cuisine, the office brings together many of Teck’s corporate functions - all working toward Teck’s purpose of providing the essential resources the world relies on.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Manager, Asset Management, the Senior Lead, Reliability is responsible for leading enterprise-level reliability improvement across operating sites, with a primary focus on increasing maintenance availability, reducing equipment-related downtime, and improving the effectiveness of maintenance strategies for critical fixed and mobile assets.

The role works directly with site Maintenance, Reliability, Planning, Operations, and Engineering teams to identify the principal drivers of lost availability, determine the underlying equipment and maintenance causes, and develop prioritized actions that deliver measurable improvements in asset performance.

Using equipment health, work management, failure, delay, and operating data, the Senior Lead, Reliability identifies chronic losses and bad actors, challenges ineffective maintenance practices, optimizes preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, and supports sites in closing reliability gaps. The role ensures Central Asset Management standards and reliability methods translate into sustained improvements in availability, reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and lifecycle performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Lead structured analysis of maintenance-related availability losses, including planned and unplanned downtime, equipment delays, repeat failures, and extended maintenance durations.
• Develop and optimize reliability strategies for critical fixed and mobile assets using RCM, FMEA, failure history, condition monitoring, criticality, and operating data.
• Lead or facilitate root cause investigations for significant or recurring failures and ensure corrective actions address underlying causes rather than symptoms.
• Assess whether preventive and predictive maintenance programs are producing the intended reliability and availability outcomes.
• Partner with Planning, Scheduling, and Maintenance teams to identify work management issues that contribute to downtime and availability loss.
• Provide technical coaching and practical support to site Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Planners, and maintenance leadership.
• Work with Process and Plant Engineering and Asset Integrity teams to resolve equipment design, operating, and integrity-related failure mechanisms.
• Use performance data, benchmarking, and lessons learned to identify and implement sustainable reliability and maintenance improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related engineering discipline or related experience.
• Typically 10+ years of maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, or another asset-intensive operating environment.
• Demonstrated experience improving equipment reliability and maintenance availability in an operating environment.
• Strong practical understanding of maintenance execution, equipment failure mechanisms, and reliability improvement.
• Experience working directly with site Maintenance and Operations teams to implement sustained equipment performance improvements.
• Strong knowledge of reliability methods, including RCM, FMEA, RCA, bad-actor elimination, defect elimination, and condition monitoring.
• Demonstrated capability in availability and downtime analysis, MTBF and MTTR analysis, failure Pareto analysis, repeat-failure analysis, and planned-versus-unplanned maintenance performance.
• Ability to translate equipment, maintenance, and operating data into prioritized improvement actions.
• Proficiency with CMMS or EAM systems, reliability KPIs, and analytical and visualization tools.
• Influence without direct authority across operating sites and functional teams.
• Translate technical findings into clear business and operational priorities for both technical and senior audiences.

Pay Range: CAD $138,000 - $170,000 per year

The actual amount offered is determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and competencies and considers internal equity.

Why Teck

At Teck, your work matters—to the world, to our communities and to your future.
As a leading Canadian resource company, we focus on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. We do this guided by our values that, together, form The Teck Way . At Teck, you’ll find purpose-driven work, a culture of respect and inclusion, and the opportunity to grow your career while helping build a better world.

Apply with us 

Take the next step in your career by applying for the Senior Lead, Reliability role. We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply, even if your background doesn’t match every requirement. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free hiring process. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Requisition ID: 54618 | Job Category: Maintenance & Trades | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Location: Vancouver | Workplace Type: #LI - Hybrid