Rotating Equipment Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

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.

• Support all phases of machinery engineering from concept development to failure analysis.
• Prepare, review, and approve machinery or component purchase specifications and related standards, policies, and instructions.
• Provide technical review and approval of vendor calculations, drawings, and technical reports.
• Participate in resolution of operational and reliability issues during start-up and normal plant operation.
• Answer technical inquiries, make recommendations, improve design tools, and develop design procedures.
• Spearhead resolution of quality issues during equipment manufacturing, and approve factory acceptance test results.
• Ensure work practices, applications, data, and tools are effective and efficient, covering condition monitoring, performance monitoring, routine and turnaround 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 collaborate with the condition monitoring team to propose and implement long-term reliability solutions.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (Operations, Technical, Routine Maintenance, Turnaround, Projects, Construction Services Group, etc.) to improve asset reliability.
• Ensure lessons learned are shared and incorporated into applicable systems for sustainability.

• Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university.
• Professional Engineering registration is highly preferred.
• 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 procurement specifications.
• Knowledge of good design practices for sizing all piping systems, including compressible fluid piping, and flexibility and stress analysis of moderately complex systems.
• Specification of piping specialty items, manual valve sizing, use, and application.
• Knowledge of piping supports, restraints, safety valves, steam traps, and liquid drainers.
• Estimating piping-related construction quantities from conceptual documents.
• Knowledge of other disciplines’ deliverables to coordinate design efforts.
• Knowledge of company engineering design and CAD drafting standards.
• Knowledge of discipline-specific methods, practices, and techniques required to engineer, design and construct process and manufacturing projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Excellent communication, verbal and written, and presentation skills.
• Virtual team skills and ability to develop cross-divisional relationships.

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

Hargrove is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including gender identity, 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.