Reliability Engineer - Power Distribution

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You may not realize it, but you’ve likely used a product today made possible by the plastics and chemicals manufactured by Chevron Phillips Chemical. From medical supplies and electronics to food packaging and cosmetics, we create the building blocks for more than 70,000 consumer and industrial products.

Join Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) as a Reliability Engineer
- Power Distribution at our Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas. This role provides technical support and stewardship for the Cedar Bayou facility's electrical power distribution systems, ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of substations, switch gear, transformers, motors, and protective relaying systems. Responsibilities include identifying and eliminating equipment failures, improving asset reliability, supporting maintenance and capital project activities, and ensuring compliance with applicable standards, regulations, and industry best practices while driving continuous improvement in electrical system performance and lifecycle management.

• Implements corporate Mechanical Integrity program at the site.
• Collects and analyzes reliability metrics to identify bad actors.
• Participates in the development, design and installation of predictive maintenance programs and technology applications to identify and eliminate defects.
• Coordinates with site stakeholders to establish and maintain the proper stocking levels of parts and equipment required to provide maximum equipment uptime at the lowest possible costs.
• Executes the identification and elimination of bad actors and the optimization of equipment availability.
• Monitors field inoperable equipment logs for remediation needs.
• Assesses and adjusts specific equipment tolerances and specifications.
• Participate in equipment failure investigations and cause analysis and implement action items to prevent recurrence using Cause Analysis tools.
• Plans and coordinates projects from inception to completion ensuring efficient implementation, timely completion, and compliance to budget. Contributes to larger capital projects (CAPEX).
• Contributes to site efforts to implement Process Safety Management elements at the site.
• Special assignments

• Minimum of 5 years of electrical engineering experience

• 7 Years of electrical engineering experience
• Knowledge/experience with SAP, APM, and PowerDB
• Experience with electrical reliability analysis (ACA, FMEA, Bad Actors, MTTR, MTBF) and improvement processes
• Basic understanding of performance and failure analysis assessment tools such as RCA, Criticality, FMEA, MTBF, 5-Why/Why Tree, or others
• Working knowledge of low and medium voltage (5kV-34.5kV) electrical equipment including switch gear, MCC, motors, UPS, transformers, and MV/LV VFDs (AB, Toshiba, Eaton, Siemens)
• Experience in the repair of DC/AC motors
• Experience with high voltage utility (138 kV)
• Experience with industry codes and standards. (NFPA, NESC, ANSI, IEEE, API, NEMA, NETA)
• Experience with ETAP software for model development/study of plant electrical system
• Extensive experience with event data and settings of feeder, motor, and line protection relaying
• Exceptional problem-solving/troubleshooting skills

• Chevron Phillips Chemical offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package and at most locations, alternate work schedules.

Travel Requirements: Up to 10%

Eligibility for Relocation: Yes

Closing Date: 10/28/2026

Nearest Major Market: Houston
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