Lead, Reliability I&E

Basic Function

The Reliability Team Lead is a working engineer in the Reliability department and reports to the Reliability Manager.  This position coaches, mentors, and supervises I&E engineers to ensure the safe execution of the site reliability objectives.  The position also provides engineering support, including: leading reliability improvements, supporting expense & capital projects, and supporting outage & turnarounds.

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Roles & Responsibilities

Leadership Role
•    Ensures compliance and drives continuous improvement in Health, Safety, & Environmental protection for the group and facility
•    Delivers GoalZERO performance through strong leadership, employee/contractor involvement
•    Assists with development of the annual Reliability budget and updates reliability long-range plans
•    Develops and maintains site maintenance & reliability procedures and guidelines
•    Manages performance and professional development of direct reports
•    Assures the Roles and Responsibilities of engineers are met
•    Drives strong Engineering Discipline culture that includes continuous improvement
•    Spending approval per Delegation of Authority (DOA) guidelines
•    Facilitates team member development, and completion of Performance Appraisals and Development Plans
•    Participates in STI and Merit increase determinations for team members
•    Ensures the Code of Conduct and all other Company policies are accurately, consistently, and fairly administered
•    Ensures unit support requirements by coordinating and approving vacations and working schedules.
•    Assigns team members to support unit roles, capital projects, maintenance projects, action items, investigations, & turn-arounds
•    Develops team training plan within the approved yearly training budget
Working Role
•    Leads/provides technical support 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
•    Actively participates in Reliability Improvement and/or Path to Excellence (P2E) Teams to guide effort to maximize equipment reliability
•    Supports site outages and turnarounds
•    Leads and participates in incident investigations to identify and eliminate the root cause of incidents, complete and close findings
•    Implements reliability best practices, develops and optimizes PM/PdM tasks, and supports maintenance activities by providing troubleshooting & repair assistance
 

Qualifications

• •    Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineeri with minimum of six (6) years of experience in chemical or refinery industry
  •    Excellent communication and influencing skills
  •    Turnaround experience / ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams
  •    Effective leadership and organization skills
  •    The ability to earn the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity
  •    The ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive and private employee information
  •    Willingness to coach, develop and hold others accountable
  •    Commitment to health, safety, security, and environmental work processes
  •    Project and budget management experience
  •    Familiarity with:
  o    Barrier Failure Analysis methodologies
  o    Industry codes and standards (e.g. ASME, API, ANSI, ISA, IEEE, NEC, NFPA) and their application
  o    Varieties of process equipment (turbomachinery, pumps, steam turbines, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, blowers, gearboxes, piping, flanges, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, motors, MCCs, transformers, transmitters, control valves, analyzers, and SIS & DCS systems)
  o    Diagnostics and equipment repair
  o    Component failure analysis
  o    Business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes
  o    Electronic tools (e.g. SAP, Meridium, Bently Nevada, Documentum, CEA, AMS, SKM)
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with both instrumentation and electrical equipment
• Experience working in the LYB LaPorte Site (LPO)

Competencies