, India
Job Family Group:
Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
September 14, 2026
Business Unit:
Integrated Gas
Experience Level:
Experienced Specialists
Job Description:
What’s the role
As Technical Specialist - Reliability Core, you will provide expert technical leadership in reliability engineering, maintenance strategy development, and asset performance improvement. You will lead complex Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) studies and reliability improvement initiatives across operating assets, turning equipment history, risk information, and operational insight into practical maintenance and improvement strategies.
This is a hands-on specialist role with a robust consulting and facilitation element. You will work with multidisciplinary asset teams, challenge technical assumptions constructively, assure the quality of reliability studies, and coach others in the effective application of reliability methods. You will also help teams make better use of analytics, digital tools,
and emerging AI capabilities where these can deliver transparent business value.
What you’ll be doing
Reliability Strategy & Asset Care
Reliability Engineering & Continuous Improvement
Apply reliability methods such as RCM, FMEA, RAM analysis, Weibull analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, and lifecycle cost analysis to support sound technical decisions.
Identify recurring equipment failures, bad actors, and performance gaps, and lead structured reliability improvement activities to address them.
Lead or support Root Cause Failure Analysis and Causal Learning investigations for significant or repeat equipment failures.
Develop recommendations that are technically robust, proportionate to risk, and practical for asset teams to implement.
Capture lessons learned and use them to improve reliability work processes, tools, and ways of working.
Reliability Statistical Analysis
Apply advanced reliability statistical techniques to evaluate failu
📌 Technical Specialist Chennai (India)
🏢 Shell
📍 India