Senior Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

Overview

Senior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer at Nouryon. A key technical leader for mechanical integrity and asset reliability at Nouryon’s PSM-covered Battleground Facility in La Porte, TX. Focuses on developing and optimizing maintenance and reliability strategies, supporting safe and compliant operation of process equipment, and driving long-term improvements in asset performance and cost. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports.

• Safety, Process Safety & Compliance: champion personal and process safety; ensure all maintenance and reliability activities comply with Nouryon EHS standards, OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, and site procedures. Support PSM elements linked to maintenance and reliability, including Mechanical Integrity (MI), Management of Change (MOC), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) follow-up, Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR), and Contractor Management. Ensure inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance programs meet applicable codes and standards (e.g., API, ASME, NBIC, NFPA) and internal Nouryon requirements.
• Mechanical Integrity & Inspection Programs: develop and maintain MI strategies for fixed and rotating equipment across multiple units laborate with API inspectors, QA/QC resources, and third-party inspection contractors to plan, evaluate, and disposition inspections, NDE, and thickness monitoring. Define and maintain equipment criticality rankings and damage/corrosion mechanism evaluations to support RBI and risk-based maintenance decisions. Ensure findings are translated into actionable work, tracked in the CMMS, and closed in a timely and compliant manner.
• Reliability Engineering & Asset Strategy: lead root cause problem solving (RCPS/RCA) for significant equipment failures, recurring issues, and unplanned outages; identify and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions. Develop, refine, and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) programs, including vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, and other condition monitoring methods. Analyze performance, downtime, and cost data to identify improvements and prioritize reliability initiatives.
  
  Recommend and help implement design, material, or equipment changes to improve reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost.
• Turnarounds, Outages & Projects: provide reliability and MI input to unit outages and plant turnarounds, including scope development, inspection and test planning, repair strategies, and post-event learning. Support capital and expense projects with reliability-focused design review, equipment specifications, and maintenance strategy development to ensure long-term reliability and compliance with PSM/MI requirements. Participate in MOC and PSSR processes to evaluate impacts of changes.
• Technical Support & Work Management: provide advanced technical support to maintenance, operations, and engineering for complex troubleshooting and repair planning. Work with maintenance planners, schedulers, and supervisors to ensure work orders, PM tasks, and inspection plans are technically sound and properly prioritized, reflected in the CMMS (SAP). Maintain and improve equipment master data, maintenance plans, and technical documentation for critical assets.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership: act as a site subject matter expert in maintenance and reliability engineering; mentor junior engineers, mechanics, technicians, and inspectors. Develop and present reports, dashboards, and insights on reliability performance, MI compliance, and equipment risks to site and business leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Typically 5+ years of maintenance, inspection, and/or reliability engineering experience in chemical, petrochemical, refining, or similar PSM-covered industrial facilities.
• Demonstrated experience with both fixed and rotating equipment; prior experience in a multi-unit, PSM-regulated chemical complex strongly preferred.

Location:

Onsite permanent position in La Porte, TX.