Supervisor, Inspection

Location:

Deer Park, TX, US, 77571

Department: LPO Reliability Inspections

Division:
Olefins and Polyolefins, and Trading

Lyondell Basell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. LYB strives to end plastic waste, address climate action, and support a thriving society while delivering value to customers, investors, and society.

This role supervises LYB and coordinates contract inspectors at the La Porte site supporting mechanical integrity and reliability improvement efforts. It carries responsibility for ensuring all stationary equipment mechanical integrity activities meet or exceed the requirements of local regulations, corporate inspection, engineering and maintenance standards, site inspection procedures, and the inspection workflow processes.

• Assigns unit responsibilities to selected inspectors and supports their efforts for routine, outage, turnaround, and program work.
• Implements work processes and system enhancements to improve group performance.
• Manages performance of assigned staff using formal and informal methods.
• Coaches and provides developmental opportunities for personnel within their remit.
• Ensures quality of preparation, through others, for mechanical integrity inspections for outages and turnarounds at LPO.
• Coordinates with corporate personnel to ensure group alignment with LYB direction.
• Ensures inspectors utilize company analysis tools, develop inspection plans, coordinate inspections, evaluate results, develop run/repair/replace recommendations, track recommendations to closure, and keep inspection data current and due by dates.
• Oversees the use of RBI for guiding inspections that are subject to that method.
• Ensures efficient use of contract resources to complete equipment and piping inspections for routine and program efforts; reviews selected inspection reports for accuracy and initiates recommendations from findings.
• Prepares annual, program, and special initiative budgets and controls accordingly.
• Oversees site mechanical integrity programs, including CUI/CUF/Paint; ensures cost tracking and forecasting is completed.
• Coordinates periodic dialogues with maintenance, operations, team leads, and Production Maintenance Coordinators to discuss inspection issues in their assigned areas.
• Uses inspection management systems and the maintenance management system SAP effectively.
• Reviews GAIS for Fixed Equipment for Operational Excellence, corporate inspection and maintenance procedures, site-specific procedures and standards, and ASME codes.
• Ensures all potential overdue inspection deferral forms are prepared and submitted when deferrals are unavoidable.
• Participates in auditing and benchmarking activities of the inspection program.
• Audits the quality and completeness of inspection data in the inspection database and files.

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of Fixed Equipment Engineering experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or 10 years of experience as a Unit Inspector.
• Strong interpersonal leadership skills for effective communication of complex issues across the organization, mentoring, and consensus building.
• Understanding of business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance and inspection workflow.
• Strong commitment to safety, high personal integrity, and dedication to ethical business practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree.
• Previous supervisory experience of owner company direct reports.
• Certification in API 510 and/or API 570.

The individual should have or develop basic proficiency in the following areas, with the ability to develop into a subject matter expert in particular areas:

• Inspection and repair standards (API, ASME, NBIC and state/local regulations).
• Inspection techniques, API/CWI inspections, and evaluating inspection results per industry codes and standards.
• Mechanisms leading to equipment failure such as corrosion, erosion, stress corrosion cracking, fretting, etc.
• Fixed Equipment design and maintenance (piping, flange make-up, pressure vessels, heat…