Maintenance Reliability Engineer

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Full Time Operations Galveston, TX, US

5 days ago Requisition

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving asset reliability strategies across Texas International Terminals. This role is accountable for improving equipment availability, reducing repeat failures, optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance, and ensuring maintenance strategies are technically sound, risk-based, and aligned with the operating context of TXIT assets. The position uses equipment history, condition data, failure analysis, OEM requirements, and field observations to drive measurable improvements in asset performance and lifecycle cost.

The Reliability Engineer serves as the technical owner for reliability strategy, failure elimination, PM/PdM optimization, asset criticality, equipment strategy development, and reliability performance. The role works closely with Maintenance Superintendents, Planning & Scheduling, Mechanical and I&E SMEs, the Chief Inspector/API function, Operations, Warehouse, Projects, and Engineering to ensure reliability requirements are translated into executable work within FIIX and sustained through standard processes.

The position focuses heavily on proactive failure prevention, field engagement, equipment strategy development, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, precision maintenance, critical spares, CMMS data quality, and continuous improvement initiatives that increase uptime, reduce emergency work, and extend asset life.

Model and reinforce company values in all decisions and actions, ensuring safety, integrity, reliability, quality, and excellence remain central to reliability engineering activities. Demonstrate strong Safety and Environmental Stewardship by ensuring reliability strategies support safe operation and regulatory compliance. Exhibit Quality Focus through Continuous Improvement and Precision Maintenance by challenging assumptions, using data, and applying disciplined engineering practices. Uphold Integrity and Accountability through transparent technical decisions and ownership of reliability outcomes.

Foster Care for Customers, Coworkers, and Community by improving the reliability of systems that support safe and dependable terminal operations.

Develop and maintain equipment reliability strategies based on asset criticality, credible failure modes, operating context, OEM recommendations, equipment history, condition-monitoring data, and business consequence. Determine the appropriate strategy for each failure mode, including Safety & Compliance PM, Equipment Reliability PM, predictive/condition-based maintenance, operator rounds, failure-finding tasks, run-to-failure, or equipment redesign. Use RCM and FMEA/FMECA principles where appropriate and ensure strategies clearly define what can fail, how the failure can be detected or prevented, and what action is required.

Maintain a consistent field presence across TXIT operating areas. Review significant failures, repeat defects, PM/PdM findings, and emerging equipment risks. Conduct equipment walkdowns, observe equipment in operation, participate in troubleshooting, and engage technicians and operators to validate that maintenance strategies reflect actual field conditions. Weekly, review bad actors, open RCA actions, condition-monitoring findings, critical spare gaps, and reliability improvement priorities.

Monitor asset reliability and maintenance performance with focus on improving availability, MTBF, PM effectiveness, PdM effectiveness, corrective finding closure, emergency work, repeat failures, and lifecycle cost. Use Pareto analysis, failure history, condition data, and work-order trends to identify bad actors and prioritize reliability improvement efforts. Verify that implemented actions deliver sustained improvement rather than temporary restoration.

Ensure reliability strategies support applicable OSHA, EPA, TCEQ, Coast Guard, PSM, manufacturer, and site requirements. Coordinate with the Chief Inspector/API function on fixed-equipment mechanical integrity and inspection requirements while maintaining clear role boundaries. Participate in MOC reviews where changes to service, process conditions, equipment design, materials, lubrication, loading, or operating envelope could affect equipment reliability.

Identify, prioritize, and implement reliability improvements that reduce failures, downtime, emergency work, maintenance cost, and lifecycle risk. Optimize PM/PdM tasks and frequencies, improve precision maintenance standards, identify opportunities for component…