Rotating Equipment Engineer

Job Scope

The Machinery Engineering position will work collaboratively across multiple levels of the organization, and with multi-discipline teams, to improve the facility’s rotating equipment reliability. This includes supporting daily operation, maintenance, turnarounds, and projects for rotating equipment and their associated systems.

• Supports all phases of machinery engineering from concept development, scoping, selection, manufacturing, technical audit, final acceptance, start-up, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.
• Prepare, review, and approve machinery or component purchase specifications which may include preparation of engineering, operating, maintenance or reliability standards, policies and instructions.
• Provide technical review and approval of vendor calculations/drawings and technical reports.
• Participate in resolution of all operational and reliability issues as may occur during start-up and during normal plant operation.
• Answer technical inquiries, make technical recommendations, improve design tools, and develop design procedures.
• Spearhead resolution of quality issues during equipment manufacturing, witness and approve factory acceptance test results on behalf of the company to ensure compliance with company standards.
• Ensures the work practices, applications, data, and tools are effective and efficient to meet company and industry requirements. These include condition monitoring, machinery performance monitoring, routine and turnaround machinery work scope development, and Engineering Work Order development.
• Lead machinery initiatives and studies to improve plant safety and reliability.
• Support inputs to economic analysis for proposed upgrades or improvements to rotating equipment assets.
• Participate in troubleshooting complex machinery problems, develop alternatives, and work with condition monitoring team members and others to propose and implement solutions for long-term reliability.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams (Operations, Technical, Routine Maintenance, Turnaround, Projects, Construction Services Group, etc.) to improve asset reliability.
• Ensures lessons learned are shared and incorporated into the applicable systems for sustainability.

Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university is required.

Professional Engineering registration is highly preferred.

This position requires 5+ years of relevant industrial experience in mechanical engineering.

• Knowledge of design standards and codes.
• Knowledge, application and specification of piping materials.
• Development of piping material and material procurement specifications.
• Knowledge of good design practices for sizing all piping systems.
• Sizing of compressible fluid piping systems.
• Flexibility and stress analysis of moderately complex piping systems.
• Specify criteria for and select piping specialty items.
• Design of moderately complex process and utility piping systems.
• Knowledge of manual valve sizing, use and application.
• Knowledge of application of piping supports and restraints.
• Identification of need, application and specification of safety valves and devices to maintain the mechanical integrity of piping systems.
• Identification of need, application and specification of steam traps and liquid drainers.
• Estimating piping related construction quantities from conceptual documents.
• Knowledge of other disciplines deliverable development to ensure coordination of design efforts.
• Knowledge and application of company engineering design and CAD drafting standards.
• Knowledge of the discipline specific methods, practices and techniques required to engineer, design and construct process and manufacturing projects.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Virtual team skills and cross divisional relationships are developed and able to provide interoffice execution support with general supervision.

• Ability to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time.

Our benefit package includes paid holidays, personal paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k), and other benefits to eligible Teammates.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Hargrove is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sexual identity, marital or family status), disability, military service or obligations, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Hargrove is a drug‑free workplace.