Reliability Engineer

• Support the Operations and Maintenance departments and drive continuous improvements in process and asset reliability.


• Develop and implement predictive maintenance programs to identify failures and eliminate defects.


• Identify trends in equipment performance that will drive improved reliability.


• Develop KPIs to measure improvements (Asset Utilization, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), On-Stream Time (OST).


• Develop Equipment Maintenance Strategies based on review of equipment failure data (Root Cause Analysis and OEE).


• Ensure Company’s Mechanical Integrity (MI) Program meets federal and state requirements and is being properly executed.


• Develop a comprehensive Spare Parts Strategy and develop Bill of Materials for new spare parts.


• Provide technical input into capital projects, including the maintenance portion of the equipment care program.


• During equipment failures, support Operations and Maintenance troubleshoot failures.


• Focus on Company’s longer-term strategic asset reliability improvements for West Coast facilities and across the Company as needed.


• During Project Management work, closely follow jobs to ensure that repair details such as clearances, tolerances, materials of construction, welding procedures, etc. are documented.


• Visible field presence during planned Turnarounds - performing field inspections and collecting equipment data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university


• 3+ years of relevant maintenance and reliability experience in a chemical, petrochemical, or refinery environment


• West Coast travel, 30%-50%

Preferred:

• Mechanical Engineer


• Knowledge of API and ASME Codes, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)


• RBI experience


• Application of reliability tools (i.e, Weibull Analysis, Reliability Growth Plots, etc.)


• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) experience


• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP)