Reliability Engineer, Process Analyzer

Location:

Deer Park, TX, US, 77571

Department: LPO Reliability

Division:
Olefins and Polyolefins, and Trading

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The Reliability Engineer, Process Analyzer provides technical support and reliability leadership for process analyzer systems at the La Porte site. This role supports safe, reliable, and compliant analyzer operation through lifecycle management, troubleshooting, reliability improvement, project support, documentation governance, and collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, Environmental, and Projects personnel.

Develop, implement, and maintain the long-range plan for analyzers.

• Provide oversight of the five-year analyzer project plan.
• Identify analyzer obsolescence needs and support replacement justification and management.
• Design and oversee the preventive maintenance optimization process for analyzer systems.
• Apply applicable corporate and industry standards and procedures.
• Develop analyzer turnaround scope.
• Serve as the analyzer engineering representative or technical sponsor for capital and expense projects, as appropriate.
• Develop conceptual analyzer scopes and support preparation of Project Initiation Forms for analyzer-related projects.
• Generate and review analyzer engineering packages for assigned projects and provide technical approval where delegated by site procedures.
• Participate in, witness, and technically accept Factory Acceptance Testing activities for new analyzer systems, consistent with project and site requirements.
• Develop or review analyzer design basis, specifications, upgrades, and modifications to ensure compliance with engineering standards, guidelines, and corporate requirements.

Provide process analyzer support to the asset teams through:

• Provide guidance to asset Technical, Environmental, and Production engineers and specialists.
• Assistance to Technical, Environmental, Production, and Maintenance for complex troubleshooting, incidents, and unscheduled events.
• Develop analyzer-related TA, unit outage, and capital project scope and participate proactively in TA core teams and project teams as the analyzer technical representative.
• Track and report process area analyzer bad actors and work to systematically remove defects in the system.
• Lead or participate in PHAs and RCFA teams as required.
• Lead or support incident investigations when analyzer performance, sample systems, or analyzer reliability are contributing factors, as assigned by the site incident investigation process.
• Own or support analyzer reliability metrics, including availability, utilization, bad actors, repeat failures, and deferral risk.
• Provide technical guidance on analyzer sample systems, shelters, utilities, validation methods, and analyzer maintainability.
• Support analyzer criticality ranking and maintenance strategy development.
• Partner with Maintenance and analyzer technicians on troubleshooting, PM optimization, spare parts strategy, and lifecycle management.
• Support regulatory, environmental, quality, custody transfer, and process control analyzer requirements where applicable.
• Define analyzer acceptance criteria for commissioning, startup, validation, and performance monitoring.

Support La Porte site technical capability development by:

• Mentor less experienced engineers and participate in onboarding activities.
• Actively participate in the corporate Process Analyzer Technical Network.

Ensure integrity of engineering records associated with analyzers by:

• Ensure analyzer calibration methods, validation requirements, and technical bases are defined, reviewed, and maintained.
• Ensure analyzer-related engineering records are reviewed and updated through appropriate work processes, including SAP, engineering drawings, and project documentation.
• Maintain MOC sponsor qualification status and sponsor analyzer-related MOCs when appropriate.
• Ensure analyzer-related changes follow site MOC requirements and associated documentation updates are completed.

Minimum of 8 years of relevant engineering experience required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required;
  Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, or related engineering discipline preferred.
• Working knowledge of process…