Fixed Equipment Specialist

About the role

The Fixed Equipment Specialist is the senior enterprise-wide technical resource for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, piping systems, and relief devices across INEOS O&P USA. This role provides the deep subject matter expertise that underpins enterprise decisions on equipment lifecycle care, turnaround scope, and capital investment across $15B+ in enterprise replacement value assets.

Responsibilities

• Define and guide enterprise asset care strategies for fixed equipment, with clear risk-based inspection intervals, expected replacement timelines, and renewal paths for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, and piping.
• Ensure asset care strategies reflect known degradation mechanisms, usage profiles, operational history, and current asset condition data.
• Champion a long-term planning mindset for high-risk and high-value fixed equipment assets across all sites, balancing near-term operational pressures with lifecycle integrity outcomes.
• Support the Equipment Integrity Manager in developing and maintaining enterprise-level fixed equipment standards, asset care practices, and lifecycle frameworks.
• Drive standardization of asset care strategy development, documentation, and review practices across all sites.
• Serve as the enterprise senior technical resource for severe or complex fixed equipment integrity and mechanical problems, providing authoritative guidance to site engineering and inspection teams.
• Act as the go-to technical resource for site-based mechanical and inspection engineers, supporting fixed equipment troubleshooting, design evaluation, and repair planning.
• Provide design input for replacements and modifications involving pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, and piping systems.
• Lead and support failure investigations involving fixed equipment, contributing root cause analysis, metallurgical evaluation, and recommendations for systemic corrective actions.
• Ensure all critical fixed equipment is accurately represented in PCMS, including pressure vessels, exchangers, storage tanks, and piping circuits.
• Establish enterprise best practices for how sites manage and maintain their fixed equipment records in PCMS, and coach site inspection and engineering leads on consistent application.
• Maintain complete and accurate equipment history, including prior inspections, repairs, fitness-for-service evaluations, and planned replacements.
• Partner with the Chief Inspector and site inspection leads to ensure data integrity and use of PCMS as the foundation for inspection planning, lifecycle decisions, and capital prioritization.
• Drive continuous improvement in fixed equipment data quality and PCMS utilization across all sites.
• Provide enterprise-level technical stewardship for the relief device program from an Equipment Integrity perspective, covering more than 4,000 relief devices across O&P USA.
• Ensure relief device population data, testing intervals, and condition records are accurately maintained, with traceable documentation supporting regulatory and code compliance.
• Coach site engineering and inspection teams on relief device sizing, selection, testing, and repair best practices, ensuring consistency across the enterprise.
• Support root cause investigations involving relief device failures or in-service events, contributing technical expertise on design adequacy, condition history, and program effectiveness.
• Partner with site relief systems engineers, the Chief Inspector, and external test contractors to drive consistent execution of relief device inspection, testing, and repair programs.
• Monitor industry incidents and code developments related to relief devices, ensuring INEOS programs remain current with API 520/521, ASME Section VIII, and applicable RAGAGEP.
• Provide technical support for turnaround scope development, ensuring high-risk fixed equipment is appropriately evaluated, scoped, and timed.
• Inform capital investment needs based on lifecycle risk, expected equipment longevity, and condition-based asset care strategy outputs.
• Ensure project proposals for fixed equipment replacement or upgrades are submitted early enough to allow for business prioritization, engineering development, and funding alignment.
• Support post-turnaround reviews to capture learnings and refresh asset care strategies based on inspection findings, equipment condition data, and emergent discoveries.
• Influence the lifecycle and capital portion of $175MM+ in annual maintenance and inspection spend across approximately 20 distinct turnaround events on rotating multi-year cycles.
• Ensure fixed equipment practices align with applicable codes and standards across the enterprise including API 510, 570, 653, and 579, applicable ASME codes, and RAGAGEP.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of inspection, design, and repair code updates affecting fixed equipment and relief devices, and translate updates into enterprise practice changes where warranted.
• Provide input into enterprise procedures involving fixed equipment risk prioritization, inspection planning, and documentation of asset care strategy.
• Participate in, and where appropriate lead, INEOS Group fixed equipment and reliability discipline networks to ensure alignment, knowledge sharing, and adoption of best practices across the enterprise.
• Monitor regulatory changes, evolving codes and standards, fixed equipment failure trends across industry, and external incidents to ensure INEOS programs remain credible, current, and defensible.
• Foster a network of site-based mechanical engineers and reliability personnel to align execution, share emerging threats and learnings, and drive adoption of external best practices where they strengthen internal programs.

Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field is required. A Master's degree is preferred. Professional Engineer (PE) certification is desirable. Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in fixed equipment engineering, inspection, and/or maintenance is required. Proven experience in managing complex fixed equipment projects and troubleshooting severe or complex equipment issues is essential. Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers and technicians is required. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on equipment integrity and reliability, are necessary. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Knowledge of relevant codes, standards, and best practices in fixed equipment lifecycle management is essential. Experience with PCMS (Plant Control Maintenance System) and other asset management tools is preferred. Experience with API 510, 570, 653, and 579, applicable ASME codes, and RAGAGEP is desirable. Experience with API committees and AFPM Mechanical Integrity Subgroup is beneficial.