Reliability Engineer
- Salary
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits
- Job #
- 00145
- Posted
This role provides reliability engineering support to a chemical plant that has consistent heavy demand for their product. They are often sold out a year in advance. This is a diverse chemical plant with interesting unit operations and equipment so you will gain great experience and have interesting work. This site is owned by a large chemical company with a reputation as an excellent employer. We have placed several engineers at this site over the years. This is located in a beautiful part of Alabama among the lakes and hills.
- Perform testing, data collection, and interpretation of results, to provide plant improvement opportunities and justify projects
- Troubleshoot plant issues with bias towards a timely response
- Identify and implement improvement projects (safety, quality, cost), to drive improvements at the site.
- Establish and maintain long-range reliability improvement plans focusing on sustainable results
- Lead investigations into the root cause of site incidents and manufacturing failures to prevent reoccurrence
- Provide small and large project leadership, with a bias for timely completion to meet business needs
- Champion predictive maintenance techniques employing industry best practices
- This position reports to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager
- Support and/or direct the activities of wage maintenance technician(s) via training on project scopes and best practices
Work closely with other engineers, operations, and maintenance resources to develop and prioritize improvement projects. Coordinate resources for implementation
- Develop & lead reliability efforts to meet key business and site initiatives in a safe manner
- Maintain site engineering standards in areas of expertise
- Communicate effectively and appropriately to all stakeholders
- Recommend spare parts for reliability-critical equipment
- Develop expertise in large multistage compressors, pumps, fans, turbines and other electromechanical rotating equipment
- Employ use of modern tools to enhance reliability at the site
- Working knowledge exotic metals and material composition
- Design equipment to be highly reliable, maintainable, economical, operable, and safe
- Maintain relationships with various technical and business organizations that focus on reliability engineering and maintenance issues
- Optimize/rationalize and develop preventative maintenance plans
BS ME with 2 + years of chemical plant or related experience
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