Reliability Engineer Job

Essential Duties

• Develops and maintains activities in support of the Mechanical Integrity standard which includes pressure vessels, storage tanks, piping, pressure relieving devices, emergency shutdown systems, controls, and high energy equipment.
• Performs reliability studies on existing equipment and recommends needed improvements in the areas of equipment philosophies, strategies and best practices for asset productivity; creating Predictive Maintenance plans.
• Updates equipment records, determine required spare parts, and maintain accurate SAP Bill of Materials.
• Develops/Implements reliability procedures and prepares reports on equipment reliability on periodic basis.
• Provides ownership and continual improvement of plant Mechanical integrity practices and procedures.
• Establishes effective preventive and predictive monitoring and maintenance techniques to identify and define abnormal operating conditions.
• Provides technical expertise in regards to job plan development, equipment critical path, job scopes, troubleshooting and diagnosing problems.
• Defines root cause failure analysis (RCFA) trigger points and uses DMAIC process to appropriate reliability tools to develop and implement corrective improvement plans.
• Defines and approves repairs to service equipment, potentially including audit and evaluation of contracted repair organizations, and inspection of repair work.
• Manages assigned capitol projects, project budgets and project records; develops early stage project evaluation including layout, cost estimates, engineering feasibility and bid packages.
• Leads continuous improvement of site’s energy efficiency as Plant Energy Manager.
• Supports the site HESQ policy and complies with all regulatory and internal requirements.
• Participates in HES activities provided by site management and Arkema Inc. (e.g., Behavioral Base Safety, etc.).
• Supports and promotes the reporting of all health, safety, environmental, near-miss, accident or injury incidents.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 Years manufacturing experience in maintenance/reliability, preferably in the chemical industry
• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• API Certification preferred

Competencies

• Experience with reliability tools such as RDFA, FMEA, Weibull analysis, statistical analysis, etc.
• Knowledge of applicable use of Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices includes ASME, API, ASTM