Principal Engineer, Rotating Equipment

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and guidance on Rotating Equipment system engineering issues.
• Provide daily-to-day Rotating Equipment and Mechanical systems support to the Maintenance & Operations teams to ensure continued operability of plant equipment.
• Provide advanced diagnostic support, to allow rapid production recovery, in the event of equipment failure and forced plant outage.
• Provide Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) leadership during RCFA exercises. This includes the ability to wrap up summaries (with causes and recommendations) and present to concerned parties.
• Provide interpretation and evaluation services to analysis and recommendations from the Reliability Technicians on predictive programs.
• Supports availability tracking and improving the overall reliability for plant equipment.
• Responsible for evaluating the workflow process, identification of critical spares, spare parts storage and preservation requirements for Rotating Equipment systems throughout the plant.
• Lead initiatives to drive fine-tuning & improvements in existing Maintenance practices to achieve a cost-effective, yet safe robust Maintenance strategy.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other relevant technical discipline is required. Mechanical Engineering focus is preferred.
• A Professional Engineering License is preferred.
• 20 - 25 years’ experience working in an engineering capacity, with Rotating and Mechanical equipment in an industrial setting in engineering or operations. Oil and Gas experience is required, with preference in LNG applications, however, petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable.
• Extensive knowledge of gas turbines (Frames & Aero-derivatives) and compressors (including compressor performance) is required.