Lead, Reliability Team (Mech)

Basic Function

The Reliability Team Lead is a working fixed equipment engineer providing engineering support, including: leading reliability improvements, supporting expense & capital projects, and supporting outage & turnarounds in the Reliability department.  This position also coaches, mentors, and supervises mechanical engineers to ensure the safe execution of the site reliability objectives. The Reliability Mechanical Team Lead is a member of the LPO Intermediates & Derivatives Reliability Team located in La Porte, Tx. 

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
  • 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

Working Role:

• Leads/provides technical support in the design and installation stages of projects for new fixed equipment assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability
• Actively participates in Reliability Improvement 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

Min. Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering 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
• Commitment to health, safety, security, and environmental work processes
• Project and budget management experience

Familiarity with:

• • Barrier Failure Analysis methodologies
  • Industry codes and standards (API 510/570/653, PCC-1, PCC-2)  and their application
  • Varieties of process equipment (piping, flanges, pressure vessels, heat exchangers)
  • Diagnostics and equipment repair
  • Component failure analysis
  • Business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with both fixed and/or rotating equipment
• Familiarity with Meridium
• Familiarity with RBI (Risk Based Inspection)
• Experience with RAT and RVIFT 

Competencies