Current Job Openings
Reliability Engineer
Client: Refinery
Location: Norco, La
Duration: 1 year and/or potential to go permanent
Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401K, Paid Time Off
The Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer provides mechanical engineering support (primarily for fixed equipment) to their respective Business Team with the objectives of improving safety, environmental, reliability, profitability, and expense management.
Key deliverables include:
- Engineered solutions that include resolution of failure root cause meeting company and industry standards
- Identification and resolution of reliability improvement opportunities including bad actors, risk based work selection for large turnarounds, and leadership of reliability subteams
- Troubleshooting and emergency support for maintenance and operations
- Incident investigations that identify root causes and result in effective recommendations to prevent recurrence
- Documentation of all analysis and engineered changes (including updates of controlled documentation)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain a vigilant focus on safety and enable others to do the same
- Perform engineering analysis of inspection findings (e.g. Fitness for Service, T-min)
- Engineer safe, reliable, cost effective solutions
- Conduct field visits and verifications of engineering solutions
- Stay abreast of and apply industry codes, company standards, best practices, and programs in engineered solutions
- Keep an up-to date prioritized worklist, and use it to effectively communicate status of work and commitments
- Provide documentation and drawing updates for equipment revisions and repairs
- Maintain effective lines of communication across the plant including the inspection group, maintenance, operations, process engineering, etc.
- Provide leadership and compliance with Management of Change guidelines
- Provides mechanical engineering support to Capital Projects Department
- Utilize risk-based approach to support recommendations and assist organization in prioritization of work
- Participate in the effective planning and execution of turnarounds via participation in Risk Based Work Selection, meeting engineering milestones, and support during the downtime with timely and accurate engineering of discovery work
- Participate in / lead incident investigations that get to the real root cause and provide relevant recommendations to prevent reoccurrence in a cost effective manner
- Clarify, reassess, and adjust Equipment Reliability Operating Envelopes as issues arise
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
- BSME Degree with 5 years or more work experience in refining industry preferred
- Ability to conduct site/field visits
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to manage a large workload and changing priorities with minimal supervision
- Good understanding of engineering drawings
- Good knowledge of industry codes and company standards
- Working knowledge of fixed equipment design, construction, and operating principles
- Understanding of reliability tools, risk based decision making, and available tools and resources
