leadership for reliability

While at IMC 2013, Uptime® Magazine had an opportunity to catch up with Rey Marquez, CRL, with Goldcorp, Inc. Rey is based in Toronto, Canada, while corporate headquarters is in Vancouver. Rey is the Manager of Maintenance and Mechanical Engineering Canada and USA. He is responsible for leading the development and implementation of maintenance reliability strategies for Goldcorp mine sites. He supports regional, site and project business plans. Additionally, he is responsible for the application of reliability strategies, root cause analysis and team based problem solving.

by Garrison Wynn

If this article title pulled you in, maybe you’ve recently realized that having a better tactic or using your (seemingly imaginary) charisma is not producing the influence you would have hoped. You’ve read the leadership and negotiation books and you’ve witnessed some disturbing YouTube videos that appear to prove you no longer need talent or a point to be in front of a camera. However, your all-consuming problems still remain: Your employees just can’t get the job done, your boss is a low-IQ narcissist and your 22-year-old kid has just told you, “I don’t, like, see myself as, like, working every day at a job and stuff.”