Rotating Reliability Engineer

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP Rotating Reliability Engineer Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us. Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Rotating Reliability Engineer to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty Ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Maintenance function. This position will report to the Maintenance Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

Rotating Equipment Strategy Owner Create and own reliability strategies for pumps, compressors, gearboxes, centrifuges, agitators, fans, blowers, and seals

Develop asset criticality

Define repair-versus-replace recommendations and lifecycle plans

Maintain equipment standards, preferred designs, and application guidance

Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Leader Lead vibration, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, oiling, and performance-monitoring programs

Set monitoring routes, alarm limits, collection frequencies, and escalation criteria

Review condition-monitoring findings and convert them into prioritized actions

Ensure monitoring technologies are matched to equipment failure modes

Defect Elimination & Root Cause Leader Lead or support RCAs for significant or repetitive rotating-equipment failures

Analyze failure history, repair records, vibration data, and operating conditions

Identify physical, human, and system causes and develop sustainable countermeasures

Track corrective actions and verify effectiveness after implementation

Bad Actor & Reliability Improvement Manager Maintain a ranked bad-actor list using downtime, cost, frequency, risk, and production impact

Build business cases for reliability improvements and equipment upgrades

Facilitate cross-functional improvement plans with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Supply Chain Quantify benefits and sustainment requirements for completed improvements

Maintenance Strategy & Work Quality Partner Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance tasks using failure modes and equipment history

Provide technical scope for inspections, repairs, overhauls, precision installation, alignment, and balancing

Review repair quality, tolerance documentation, and post-maintenance acceptance data Partner with planners, supervisors, technicians, and vendors on complex rotating-equipment work Troubleshooting & Technical Response Engineer Provide field response for equipment vibration, seal leakage, bearing temperature, lubrication, and performance issues

Integrate process conditions with mechanical data during troubleshooting

Define safe operating limits, temporary controls, and escalation needs with appropriate stakeholders

Communicate technical findings, risk, and recommended actions clearly

Turnaround, Outage & Project Reliability Support Define rotating-equipment inspection and overhaul scopes for outages and turnarounds

Identify critical spares, special tools, vendor support, and quality checkpoints

Support equipment commissioning, startup readiness, and post-startup monitoring

Provide reliability input to capital projects, MOC reviews, design reviews, and PSSRsReliability Data, Standards & Capability Developer Maintain accurate equipment histories, failure coding, technical files, and reliability dashboards

Track rotating-equipment KPIs and communicate trends, risks, and priorities

Develop technical standards,…