Machinery Engineer

The Machinery Engineer is responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving rotating equipment to optimize mean time between failures, ensuring the plant's operational needs are met while adhering to evolving environmental initiatives. Additionally, this role involves working on capital replacement projects to address equipment obsolescence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain safe and efficient operation of the rotating equipment using established operating disciplines and procedures. Ensure that safety and environmental compliance is achieved.
• Support PSM and Environmental efforts including Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change process, Risk Assessments and incident investigations.
• Lead efforts to identify and execute scope during Turn Around activities.
• Troubleshoot equipment problems with Production Specialists, Maintenance, Reliability and Operations teams.
• Maintain plant assets and protective systems integrity.
• Assist in defining and maintaining correct operating envelopes, investigating deviations, and proposing solutions to mitigate them.
• Participate in the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training materials.
• Initiate Management of Change process and participate in Risk Assessments and incident investigations.

• Support established production targets by ensuring reliable equipment availability.
• Focus on resolving long term reliability issues.
• Facilitate and implement root cause analysis.
• Benchmark, identify and implement best in class improvements and practices to improve the operation and efficiency of the equipment.
• Track equipment mean time between failures/ repairs and identify opportunities to optimize while minimizing cost and waste.
• Identify, track and communicate key performance indicators for critical equipment.
• Provide support to operations during upset conditions, start-ups and T/As.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• B.S. Degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering.
• Years of specific petro-chemical, refining or manufacturing related experience.
• Knowledge of PM creation, reliability cantered maintenance, condition monitoring systems and RCA.

• Advanced knowledge of turbines, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps and reciprocating compressors.

This position does not offer sponsorship. Only individuals who are US Citizens or green card holders are eligible to apply.