Mechanical Engineer - Equipment

Position: Mechanical Engineer - Fixed Equipment

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Talent Acquisition Partner on behalf of Chemours

CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS

At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market‑leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.

Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high‑performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high‑quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure—sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a Mechanical Engineer - Fixed Equipment to join our growing Thermal & Specialized Solutions Business team. The position will be available at the Chemours Corpus Christi Plant located in Ingleside, TX and report directly to the Manufacturing Technology Manager.

This role will serve as a Plant Support Engineer for one or more areas of the assets at this facility. The individual will provide overall Mechanical Engineering guidance and support for the Operations, Maintenance, and Technology Teams for their area(s). This role will entail involvement in day‑to‑day troubleshooting in the plant, as well as support for improvement programs in the areas of Safety (PSM), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reliability, cost, and new capital installations.

Responsibilities

• Provide mechanical expertise for troubleshooting, maintaining, and modifying operating equipment and facilities.
• Provide technical troubleshooting and training for the operating and maintenance teams.
• Provide Mechanical expertise for project work to ensure its compliance with specifications, engineering standards and quality assurance.
• Lead PSM criticality assessment process to ensure adequate rationale is provided to develop and manage the MIQA effort, including critical spare parts, SAP data, inspection plans and frequencies, and maintenance procedures.
• Analyze equipment trends, historical data, and uptime data to recommend and justify improvements to obtain the lowest life cycle cost on different classes of equipment.
• Leads and participates in Safety, Reliability and Quality Investigations.
• Participate in maintenance and reliability networks and share best practices, successes, and failures.
• Perform failure mode and effect analyses to develop appropriate equipment maintenance plans to include equipment checks and predictive preventative maintenance (PPM) performed by operators and mechanics.
• Provides support for both cost and capital projects, including scope development, justification, and coordinating installation of new/modified facilities.
• Maintain personal level of technical expertise in key technologies via training, seminars, and professional organizations.
• Provide shift/weekend coverage for start-ups, tests, maintenance turnarounds, or other non-routine needs.
• Travel requirements are less than 15%.

Qualifications

The following is required for this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited university.
• 2+ years of related industrial / manufacturing work experience in fixed equipment (will consider up to 1 year of degree relevant intern / co‑op experience).
• Basic knowledge of mechanical engineering fixed equipment principles (piping, pressure vessels, valves, and welding).
• Ability to diagnose and solve technical problems – making data‑based decisions.
• Comfortable working both independently and in a team environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication…