Equipment Specialist

Fixed Equipment Specialist (Engineer)

The Fixed Equipment Specialist is the senior enterprise-wide technical resource for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, piping systems, and relief devices across INEOS O&P USA. Reporting to the Equipment Integrity Manager & Technical Authority, this role provides the deep subject matter expertise that underpins enterprise decisions on equipment lifecycle care, turnaround scope, and capital investment across $15B+ in enterprise replacement value assets.

Lifecycle stewardship provided by this role directly protects long-term asset integrity, reliability, and the company's license to operate.

Within the discipline of fixed equipment, the Fixed Equipment Specialist defines enterprise asset care strategies, lifecycle plans, and PCMS data management practices that site engineering and inspection teams are expected to apply. Site mechanical engineers, reliability personnel, and inspection leads operate within the asset care framework established by this role and rely on it as the senior technical resource for severe or complex fixed equipment problems.

While the position has no direct line authority over site personnel, its functional leadership and structured technical guidance establish how fixed equipment lifecycle decisions are made across all O&P USA sites.

The role spans three major manufacturing sites and the O&P USA pipeline business, providing technical leadership across 30+ mechanical engineers, two reliability team leads, and the mechanical engineering superintendents at the BMC and CBW manufacturing sites. Through asset care strategy, lifecycle planning, and PCMS data stewardship, the role shapes the lifecycle and capital portion of $175MM+ in annual maintenance and inspection spend and influences the prioritization of integrity-linked capital investment.

The Fixed Equipment Specialist is also the steward of the relief device program from an equipment integrity perspective, providing technical oversight for more than 4,000 relief devices across O&P USA. The role is recognized as a technical authority on fixed equipment within INEOS and is expected to actively participate in relevant industry forums and committees, including API and AFPM activities, ensuring that O&P remains aligned with emerging codes, standards, and best practices in fixed equipment lifecycle management.

Asset Care Strategy & Lifecycle Management

• Define and guide enterprise asset care strategies for fixed equipment, with clear risk-based inspection intervals, expected replacement timelines, and renewal paths for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, and piping.
• Ensure asset care strategies reflect known degradation mechanisms, usage profiles, operational history, and current asset condition data.
• Champion a long-term planning mindset for high-risk and high-value fixed equipment assets across all sites, balancing near-term operational pressures with lifecycle integrity outcomes.
• Support the Equipment Integrity Manager in developing and maintaining enterprise-level fixed equipment standards, asset care practices, and lifecycle frameworks.
• Drive standardization of asset care strategy development, documentation, and review practices across all sites.

Technical Leadership & Site Support

• Serve as the enterprise senior technical resource for severe or complex fixed equipment integrity and mechanical problems, providing authoritative guidance to site engineering and inspection teams.
• Act as the go-to technical resource for site-based mechanical and inspection engineers, supporting fixed equipment troubleshooting, design evaluation, and repair planning.
• Provide design input for replacements and modifications involving pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, and piping systems.
• Lead and support failure investigations involving fixed equipment, contributing root cause analysis, metallurgical evaluation, and recommendations for systemic corrective actions.

PCMS Ownership & Data Integrity

• Ensure all critical fixed equipment is accurately represented in PCMS, including pressure vessels, exchangers, storage tanks, and piping circuits.
• Establish enterprise best practices for how sites manage and maintain their fixed equipment records in PCMS, and coach site inspection and engineering leads on consistent application.
• Maintain complete and accurate equipment history, including prior inspections, repairs, fitness-for-service evaluations, and planned replacements.
• Partner with the Chief Inspector and site inspection leads to ensure data integrity and use of PCMS as the foundation for inspection planning, lifecycle decisions, and capital prioritization.
• Drive continuous improvement in fixed equipment data quality and PCMS utilization across all sites.

Relief Device Program Stewardship

• Provide enterprise-level technical stewardship for the relief device program from an Equipment Integrity perspective, covering more than 4,000 relief devices across O&P USA.
• Ensure relief device population data, testing…