ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Maintenance Reliability Specialist at TransAlta, you will strengthen Maintenance and Reliability programs across a diverse generation portfolio. This role focuses on developing data-driven maintenance strategies, standardized asset frameworks, and the governance, tools, and analytics needed to drive long-term performance.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Operations, Asset Management, and Work Management teams, while assessing current-state capabilities and supporting the business case for future digital and predictive maintenance enablement.
This is a full-time, safety sensitive position based out of our Keephills Thermal Plant, situated 70 kilometers west of Edmonton, AB and five kilometers south of Wabamun Lake.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
- You bring strong experience in reliability engineering, maintenance optimization, or asset management within complex, asset-intensive environments
- You are skilled in structured reliability methodologies such as RCM, FMEA, asset strategy libraries, and standardized maintenance frameworks
- You can interpret asset performance data to identify failure patterns, degradation trends, and reliability risks
- You have a proven ability to optimize maintenance strategies to improve asset life, availability, and cost effectiveness
- You are comfortable baselining existing asset and maintenance strategies and translating insights into standardized, scalable frameworks
- You collaborate effectively with engineers, planners, operations, and site teams to operationalize asset strategies
- You have hands-on experience enabling strategies within enterprise systems such as SAP
- You are highly analytical and experienced in developing dashboards, KPIs, and reporting to support data-driven decisions
- You understand asset criticality concepts and can help define and standardize health indicators for critical assets
- You can assess maintenance maturity and identify opportunities for predictive and performance-based maintenance
- You bring a strong understanding of data architecture, integration, and governance as they relate to reliability outcomes
- You are comfortable contributing to maintenance budget strategy, balancing routine, preventive, and optimization investments
- You have experience establishing governance, work controls, and performance management frameworks
- You balance corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance to optimize full asset lifecycle performance
ABOUT YOU
- Degree in Engineering or equivalent education and experience in maintenance and reliability
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in the renewables or utility sector in reliability, maintenance, or operations
- Strong experience in maintenance strategy development (RCM, FMEA, Asset Criticality, Failure Analysis)
- Experience working within S/4HANA Plant Maintenance modules
- Experience in data analytics, asset performance reporting, and reliability dashboards
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance techniques and condition monitoring systems
- Understanding of asset lifecycle management and reliability frameworks
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to translate technical analysis into business case development and executive-ready recommendations
TransAlta Corporation
110 Twelfth Ave SW
Calgary
Alberta Canada
www.transalta.com
