Reliability & Solutions Business Development Manager – Export
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced and highly motivated Reliability & Solutions Business Development Manager to join our growing team supporting our export operations, with a large focus on Papua New Guinea.
This role is ideally suited to a hands-on reliability professional with strong diagnostic, condition monitoring and maintenance strategy experience within heavy industry, mining, or industrial environments. Previous experience working with PNG operations and remote site support is essential.
Job Description
About the Role
Provide technical support to other Engineering and service team members, branch sales staff and end users.
Explore, find, and develop Reliability Services, Solutions and commercial opportunities with a technical mindset.
Deliver reliability engineering services, condition monitoring programs, inspections, root cause investigations, and maintenance optimisation strategies across a range of critical plant and equipment.
The role will involve close collaboration with site maintenance teams, project stakeholders, and operational personnel to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and support safe and efficient operations.
Technical elements of the role will include:
Conduct condition monitoring and asset health assessments
Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations
Precision laser alignment activities
Facilitate Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Coordinate reliability improvement projects
Provide technical recommendations to improve asset performance and reliability
Promote Applied's full range of product, service & solutions to fulfil customers’ needs adding value to their operations.
Implement a total solutions approach to maximise Applied’s return through the supply of the full range of products and services.
Assist or prepare, conduct Training, fitting and maintenance courses as required.
Desired Skills and Experience
Skills & Experience
To be successful in this role you will possess:
Demonstrated experience working within Papua New Guinea operations or remote mining environments
Strong background in reliability engineering, condition monitoring, and maintenance optimisation
Experience within mining, mineral processing, heavy industrial, or manufacturing sectors
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Ability to work autonomously and within multidisciplinary teams
High attention to detail with a strong safety focus
Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationship with customers and team members.
Inspection & Reliability Techniques
Grinding Mill Gear Inspections
Vibration Analysis
Precision Alignment
SDT270 & Lube Expert inspections
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
Planned Maintenance Optimisation (PMO)
What We Offer
Competitive remuneration package
Opportunity to work on challenging and high-profile projects
Supportive and collaborative team environment
Career development opportunities
Exposure to major mining and industrial operations across PNG
If you are a motivated Reliability Engineer looking for your next challenge and have experience supporting Papua New Guinea operations, we would love to hear from you.
Apply now with your resume and cover letter outlining your relevant experience.
Applied Industrial Technologies is a global industrial distribution company. We partner with over 4,000 world-class manufacturers and we are an industry-leading, value-added distributor of a variety of innovative and reliable industrial products.
On a local level, with 33 locations throughout Australia and New Zealand, we specialise in a wide variety of industrial products including Power Transmissions and Bearings.We are currently experiencing an exciting growth stage and we continue to be committed to our objective to be an efficient and effective supply chain manager of products and services.
