Manager, Rotating Equipment, Ponca City Refinery

About the role

The Manager, Rotating Equipment oversees a team of reliability engineers and vibration technicians who maintain and improve the reliability of critical machinery at the Ponca City Refinery.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of reliability engineers and vibration technicians, setting clear goals and aligning work to site priorities.
• Model integrity by championing the refinery safety program and ensuring full compliance with safety, mechanical integrity requirements, and engineering standards.
• Develop, execute, and sustain effective preventive and predictive maintenance programs, including vibration monitoring, bad-actor management, and equipment lifecycle planning.
• Apply advanced rotating equipment expertise to support maintenance, operations, projects, and turnarounds, designing and validating engineering solutions.
• Oversee major maintenance and repair activities for pumps, compressors, and other rotating equipment, including scoping work, specifying new equipment, supporting in-plant and shop repairs, ensuring QA/QC, and leading root cause failure investigations.
• Plan and manage rotating equipment projects, building realistic schedules, aligning resources, and contributing to expense and capital budgets.
• Collaborate across disciplines and within the corporate rotating equipment network to share learnings, develop best practices, and ensure stakeholders understand equipment condition and recommended actions.
• Navigate unplanned events and evolving priorities by providing calm, steady leadership, clarifying risks and trade-offs, and making timely decisions on high-risk equipment issues.
• Refine rotating equipment standards, work processes, and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and engineering decision-making.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline
• 6 or more years of experience in maintenance and/or engineering in the refining, chemical, manufacturing, or petrochemical industry
• Possess a valid Driver’s License
• Intermediate or greater proficiency working with rotating machinery
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
• Travel up to 5%
• Operate a company vehicle on site premises and/or public roads up to 5%
• Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays, and perform occasional on-call duties
• Transport articles up to 50 pounds
• Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet
• Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines, around chemicals and hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat, and in harsh weather conditions
• Wear fire-retardant clothing and personal protective equipment
• Maintain face daily for proper respirator/face mask seal (for example, being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)

Preferred

• Advanced degree in engineering
• 3 or more years of experience leading engineering teams to troubleshoot and solve problems
• 10 or more years of experience as a rotating equipment engineer or specialist in the refining, chemical, or petrochemical industry
• Working knowledge of relevant rotating equipment standards (such as API and PIP)
• Direct experience with rotating equipment installation, commissioning, and startup in an operating facility
• Training in root cause failure analysis or similar systematic investigation methods
• Proven success building cohesive, high-performing technical teams and scaling collaborative, cross-functional ways of working to improve equipment reliability and project outcomes

Benefits

Compensation range: $160,200 – $195,800. Additional benefits include:

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services

To be considered

In order to be considered for this position, candidates must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing their eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 07/23/2026.