Specialist, Instrumentation Reliability

333 Clay Street
Suite 5050
Houston, Texas

The Instrumentation Reliability Specialist supports long-term reliability improvement efforts for instrumentation, including pressure, temperature, flow, level, analytic instrumentation, autostart systems, protective instrument systems, fire and gas detection systems, position and control feedback devices, vibration and condition monitoring sensors, emissions monitoring systems, and valves (control, actuated, ESD, anti-surge, etc.).

This role focuses on improving asset reliability by leveraging instrumentation condition monitoring technologies, implementing robust asset strategies, and supporting defect elimination efforts.

Hence, key responsibilities include enhancing the early detection of instrumentation degradation through improved condition monitoring programs, preventing instrumentation failures through optimized asset strategies, and eliminating chronic/high-cost instrumentation failures by determining and addressing their root causes.

Success in this role requires building cross-functional alignment to ensure shared understanding, commitment, and support for reliability-focused initiatives.

Additionally, the Instrumentation Reliability Specialist serves as a champion for reliability best practices and actively mentors others to build a proactive, reliability-centered culture across the organization.

This position will be based at the Freeport LNG Liquification Facility (Quintana, TX) or Pre-Treatment Facility (Freeport, TX). This position requires the incumbent to hold a valid driver’s license. Expected out-of-town travel is less than 10%.

• Complies with and enforces safety rules and expectations
• Ensures compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and company requirements
• Supports implementation of the site reliability strategy
• Maintains close coordination with the Facilities Engineering and Maintenance teams to ensure alignment on critical instrumentation reliability issues and their resolution
• Demonstrates and champions mindsets and behaviors that unpin a strong reliability culture
• Supports optimization and field execution of instrumentation asset strategies
  • Asset Strategy:
    The operator, craft, & engineer tasks & frequency + process & equipment condition monitoring + spare parts required to keep an asset reliable and compliant with legal requirements.
• Monitors execution of asset strategies to ensure proper task completion
• Supports work to ensure inputs for optimizing asset strategies are effectively integrated into GE APM ASM, with outputs seamlessly transferred to SAP for execution
• Supports execution of strategic initiatives and capital projects to improve instrumentation reliability
• Develops, implements, and continuously improves instrumentation condition monitoring programs
• Conducts condition monitoring and interprets results
• Supports work to establish PdM thresholds and responds to and verifies exceedance of PdM thresholds
• Monitors asset health dashboards and ensures timely response to alerts and anomalies
• Utilizes and supports work to enhance third-party remote monitoring and health services
• Supports application of reliability tools
• Supports development and implementation of reliability work processes and standards
• Supports RCAs to determine the causes of chronic and high-cost instrumentation failures
• Collaborates across functions to implement effective solutions that eliminate these causes
• Ensures proposed solutions address the causes of instrumentation failures
• Leverages lessons learned from instrumentation failures to proactively mitigate risk across similar equipment
• Identifies and addresses spare parts gaps for critical instrumentation

• Experience or Education - Minimum: 10 years of hands-on experience with instrumentation maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and repair in a chemical processing, refining, or LNG plant environment OR associate degree or technical diploma in Instrumentation Technology, Industrial Electronics, Process Control, Electrical Engineering Technology, or military equivalent
• Experience or Education - Preferred:
  • 15 years of hands-on experience with instrumentation maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and repair in a chemical processing, refining, or LNG plant environment OR Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology or related discipline
  • Experience with preventive/predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) programs and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles;
    Familiarity with instrumentation reliability analysis tools, CMMS (e.g., SAP, Maximo), and ISA standards.
• Certifications - Required or Strongly Preferred:
  • ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) – Level I or II, or
  • NCCR Plus Level 4 Industrial Maintenance Electrical & Instrumentation (IME&I)
  • OSHA 10- or 30-Hour Certification (General Industry)
• Certifications - Highly Valued:
  • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT) – by SMRP
  • Instrument Society of America (ISA) training…