Senior Engineer, Rotating Equipment Reliability

About the role

This Senior Engineer, Rotating Equipment Reliability role will be joining a multi-discipline team of reliability engineers and specialist supporting the Acetyls Units at the Celanese Clear Lake plant in Pasadena, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Take initiative and identify any Safety, Environmental or Reliability issues and take action.
• Perform Safety and Reliability Audits in the Unit.
• Engage people and give feedback immediately.
• Lead development of long range plan for unit machinery upgrades, overhauls, and overall equipment strategy
• Apply data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems related to machinery.
• Review Condition Monitoring systems and programs (Bently Nevada, Vibration Round data, Oil Analysis results, etc.) and implement corrective actions if necessary.
• Communicate/escalate and coordinate with Core Reliability Leader any safety/reliability issues or concerns immediately.
• Work with Maintenance, Unit Reliability Engineers, and Central Reliability Group to improve PM/PdM program.
• Perform vendor visits and participate/witness testing for repairs and new installations.
• Lead and / or participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Active participant in MOCs (originator and reviewer).
• Maintain critical equipment and bad actor lists to address emerging issues.
• Develop role activity list and update as needed to ensure scope/plans for upcoming events/equipment repairs are documented and planned correctly.
• Oversee and Coordinate TA rotating equipment activities to ensure repair scope is executed correctly and approve/sign off repair packages.

Qualifications

• BS Mechanical Engineering
• 5-10 years of field experience in a manufacturing facility, preferably chemicals, or petrochemical manufacturing

Preferred Skills

• Experience with general and major rotating equipment
• Experience with Bently Nevada System 1 Level 2 vibration training
• Experience using SAP
• Experience and knowledge of API, ASME, and other applicable industry standards.
• Ability to work independently or with a team
• Strong troubleshooting ability with major Rotating Equipment
• Technical Presentation Proficiency
• Strong communication and stakeholder management