Fixed Equipment Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the overall fixed equipment mechanical integrity program and shall conform to good safety and reliability principles, government laws, and industrial codes and standards.
• Ensure compliance in all areas and make necessary decisions to meet compliance requirements.
• Support, participate in and review Root Cause Failure Analyses ensuring action items result in risk reduction.
• Manage staff and contract mechanical integrity employees.
• Champion the site fixed equipment mechanical integrity best practices, evaluate new technology and ideas to continuously improve reliability of fixed equipment.
• Assist Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance departments in training, and processes ensuring fixed equipment is operated & maintained properly.
• Provide input to the planning and scheduling process to ensure a good balance of repair vs proactive maintenance.
• Ensure key reliability targets are developed and mechanisms put into place to track progress through metrics.
• Ensure cross functional communication making the most value-added decisions for the plant.
• Safely, efficiently, and reliably complete outages with leak free start-ups.
• Own the bad actor management process for fixed equipment and take appropriate action to eliminate failures.
• Ensure reliability improvement strategies are implemented for decreased cost and operations interruption.
• Develop and implement reliability expectations for preventative and predictive activities.
• Manage the continued development and lead the site quality assurance and quality control initiatives.
• Participate Process Hazard Analyses as required.
• Develop fixed equipment projects resulting in improved reliability & provide technical guidance to project managers and engineers.
• Develop and lead special emphasis fixed equipment mechanical integrity initiatives and develop budgets for each.
• Perform Fit for Service calculations for fixed equipment.

Required Skills

• 10 years of experience in fixed equipment design, fabrication, repairs, and/or inspection.
• Ability to work in a plant environment involving climbing stairs and ladders, working at heights, entering confined spaces, walking, crawling, crouching, balancing, and sitting.
• Extended hours may be required including weekends and holidays. Must be willing to have on call responsibilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Strong knowledge of ASME and API codes of construction, repair, rerate and alteration.
• Working knowledge of other non-destructive testing techniques.
• Experience working with a CMMS and IDMS.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs and construction drawings.

Desired Skills/Competencies

• Knowledge of API 571, API 574, API 575, NBIC.
• Experience with SAP.
• Experience with Meridium or GE APM-MI.
• Sologic for Root Cause Failure Analysis.
• Experience with industry available fixed equipment design and fit for service computer programs.

Education, Certifications & Licenses

• Bachelor of Science degree in designated Engineering or related field. 15 years of fixed equipment related experience will be considered as equivalent.