Mechanical Engineer - Rotating Equipment

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Chemours is seeking a Rotating Mechanical Engineer to join our growing TSS team. This position will be available at the 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 Chemours 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), UPTIME, reliability, cost, new capital installations, etc.

The operating units are designated as highly hazardous processes (OSHA PSM Covered Processes). The role will include but are not be limited to the following:

• Provide mechanical expertise for troubleshooting, maintaining, and modifying operating equipment and facilities
• Provide technical troubleshooting and training to 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 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 operations and mechanics.
• Provides support for both cost and capital projects, including scoping out, justifying, 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 < 15%.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited university
• 5 years of related industrial / manufacturing work experience in Rotating equipment (will consider degree relevant intern / co‑op experience counting toward this requirement)
• Rotating equipment and alignment techniques, and basic materials science including material selection and properties.
• Lubrication fundamentals and tribology techniques.
• Basic pumps principles, understanding performance curves. Mechanical seals API plans.
• Demonstrated knowledge of mechanical engineering rotating equipment principles
• Strong…