I&E Reliability Engineer – Direct

I&E Reliability Engineer – Direct

  • Location: Pasadena, TX
  • Employment Type: Direct Hire – Long Term
  • Compensation: Dependent on Experience (DOE)
  • Benefits: PTO, Health Benefits, and 401(k)
Overview:
This role supports plant operation and reliability improvement efforts. Working in a team environment, it carries responsibility for implementing reliability best practices, developing and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, and supporting maintenance activities. The position interacts with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project groups), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance. The candidate is responsible for safe and efficient operation of assigned production unit using established operating discipline and procedures. The I&E reliability Engineer is responsible for maintaining the plant assets and protective systems integrity and to deliver established production targets set by the business.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Apply data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, and regulatory compliance issues
  • Consult with peers at the site and across the company
  • Serve as a resource and conduit to share best practices and leverage operating improvement opportunities across the site and company
  • Provide technical support/expertise within your discipline in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability
  • Participate in the development of design and installation specifications and commissioning plans.
  • Participate in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develop acceptance tests and inspection criteria
  • Maintain awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost
  • Lead or participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis
  • Provide input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability- related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
  • Systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes:
  • Value-added preventive maintenance tasks - Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
  • Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
  • Provide technical support to production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups
  • Implement Safety Instrumented Systems that meet availability requirements by translating Process Hazard Analysis requirements into technical design specifications and preventive/predictive maintenance plans.
  • Provide backfill coverage for I/E engineers during absences or peak workloads.
  • Develop both short-term and long-term I&E reliability strategies, benchmarks, and continuous improvement plans.
  • Lead reliability improvement initiatives and identify reliability opportunities.
  • Perform root cause failure analysis (RCFA) and develop corrective action plans.
  • Support hazard and risk assessments, PHAs, MOC/LOPA, PSSR and other Process Safety Management programs
  • Ensure compliance with applicable industry codes and standards (ISA, IEC 61511, NFPA, NEC, API, etc.) in design, maintenance, and reliability practices.
  • Oversee I&E calibration programs, optimize spare parts inventory, and refine PdM/PM tasks based on reliability data.
  • Serve as a technical resource to operations, technicians, contractors, vendors, etc.
  • Develop and monitor asset management plans and reliability metrics (e.g., failure frequency, MTBF), and report findings to stakeholders.
Requirements / Qualifications
  • BS degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 5-10 years relevant experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries.
  • Strong interpersonal leadership skills are critical due to the requirement for effective communication of complex issues across the organization as well as for mentoring and consensus building.
  • The successful candidate must exhibit an understanding of business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow.
Technical Skills
  • Basic understanding of industry codes and standards (i.e. IEEE, ISA, NFPA, NEC)
  • Instrumentation and measurement technology
  • Medium and low voltage power distribution, equipment, and controls
  • Safety Instrumented System specification, design, calculations, and implementation
  • Analysers and sample systems
  • Component failure analysis
  • Project Management
  • Basic Flow Calculations
  • Reliability Engineering concepts
  • Reliability data analysis techniques
  • Familiarity with Electrical Area Classification
  • Root Cause Failure analysis and Incident investigations
  • Basic knowledge in DCS Control systems and PLCs
  • Basic knowledge in SAP system
  • Predictive and Preventive Maintenance concepts
  • Ability to apply computer software tools (SAP, Microsoft Office, ExSILentia, Conval)
Core Competencies
  • Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written
  • Strong mechanical aptitude
  • Safety role model
  • Problem solving skills with data analysis ability
  • Ability to work cross functionally

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