The Sr. Rotating Equipment Engineer will provide machinery engineering support and reliability improvements to the refinery. This position is responsible for reviewing and implementing site-wide standards and improvements to obtain optimum asset performance from rotating equipment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Develop and apply machinery technical knowledge to support and improve overall equipment reliability including:
- Assisting the Maintenance Machinery Specialists with equipment troubleshooting and providing recommendations for identified machinery problems to assigned business teams.
- Elimination of repeat failures, including root cause analysis and risk analysis.
- Evaluating current performance and improvements to develop and support short-term and long-term reliability plans, capital projects, and turnarounds through execution. This task will include interacting with internal and external personnel in scope development, cost-benefit analysis, procurement of machinery, and field execution.
- Responds to abnormal plant operational events and provides engineering support for daily operations.
- Reviews and develops operating and maintenance procedures.
- Initiates Management of Change (MOC) documents and completes associated engineering review(s) for rotating equipment changes in assigned area.
- Educates and mentors others on technical details of machinery and rotating equipment best practices.
- Works with internal customers and groups in the support of day-to-day troubleshooting and performance to ensure machinery operability, environmental compliance, and process safety.
- Provides scope and technical oversight to external vendor shops that occasionally execute machinery repairs.
- Develops/Implements Refinery Wide Preventive Maintenance (PM) & (PdM) Programs.
Requirements & Qualifications:
- B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Years experience in refinery, petrochemical or equivalent industrial machinery design, repair, and maintenance.
- Familiar with machinery performance analysis including compressor / pump efficiency evaluation, vibration analysis, and hydraulic analysis.
- Experienced in Root-Cause Analysis & facilitating investigations.
- Understanding of basic instrument design and low voltage applications, construction, and operating principles as they relate to machinery monitoring & protection systems.
This position does not offer sponsorship. Only individuals who are US Citizens or green card holders are eligible to apply.