Maintenance Engineer

Basic Function

This role is part of the LaPorte Reliability Group supporting plant operation, maintenance, and reliability of turbomachinery.  Working in a team environment, it carries responsibility for implementing reliability best practices, developing and optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance tasks, supporting maintenance activities, and ensuring operating procedures are adequate for reliable operation.  The position interacts with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project groups), corporate technical networks, peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead development of long range plan for unit machinery upgrades, overhauls, and overall equipment strategy
• Apply data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems related to turbomachinery.
• Consult with peers at the site and across the company.
• Serve as a resource and conduit to share machinery best practices and leverage operating improvement opportunities across the site and company.
• Provide technical support/expertise 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 of machinery.
• Participate in the development of design and installation specifications and commissioning plans for machinery. 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 of machinery.
• Lead or participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions for machinery.
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups for machinery issues.
• Provide technical support for the development of routine and turnaround overhaul repair scope for machinery.
• Manage risk to the achievement of the organization’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production.
• Support and mentor other mechanical engineers, machinery specialists, and machinery condition monitoring analysts in the day to day resolution of machinery issues.
• Ensure consistent adherence to site machinery workflow processes.
• Systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan for machinery that includes:
  • Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
  • Effective utilization of predictive methodologies to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems

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Min. Qualifications

BS degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries is preferred.  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.  The individual must have strong working knowledge and proficiency in the following areas:

• Turbomachinery system design, commissioning, maintenance, and operation (including pumps, compressors, steam turbines, gearboxes, mechanical seals, and support systems)
• Applicable standards for machinery (i.e. API, ANSI, ISO)
• Predictive and preventive maintenance of machinery
• Vibration monitoring, analysis, and diagnostics - Level II or higher certification through the Vibration Institute preferred
• Equipment troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis
• Ability to apply computer software tools (SAP, Microsoft Office, Meridium)

The successful candidate must have strong commitment to safety, a high level of personal integrity, and dedication to conducting business in an ethical way.

Preferred Qualifications

Competencies