Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer

About the job Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer

The Sr. Rotating Equipment Engineer will provide machinery engineering support and reliability improvements to the refinery. This position is responsible for reviewing and implementing site-wide standards and improvements to obtain optimum asset performance from rotating equipment.

• Assisting the Maintenance Machinery Specialists with equipment troubleshooting and providing recommendations for identified machinery problems to assigned business teams.
• Elimination of repeat failures, including root cause analysis and risk analysis.
• Evaluating current performance and improvements to develop and support short-term and long-term reliability plans, capital projects, and turnarounds through execution. This task will include interacting with internal and external personnel in scope development, cost-benefit analysis, procurement of machinery, and field execution.
• Responds to abnormal plant operational events and provides engineering support for daily operations.
• Reviews and develops operating and maintenance procedures.
• Initiates Management of Change (MOC) documents and completes associated engineering review(s) for rotating equipment changes in assigned area.
• Educates and mentors others on technical details of machinery and rotating equipment best practices.
• Works with internal customers and groups in the support of day-to-day troubleshooting and performance to ensure machinery operability, environmental compliance, and process safety.
• Provides scope and technical oversight to external vendor shops that occasionally execute machinery repairs.
• Develops/Implements Refinery Wide Preventive Maintenance (PM) & (PdM) Programs.

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Years experience in refinery, petrochemical or equivalent industrial machinery design, repair, and maintenance.
• Familiar with machinery performance analysis including compressor / pump efficiency evaluation, vibration analysis, and hydraulic analysis.
• Experienced in Root-Cause Analysis & facilitating investigations.
• Understanding of basic instrument design and low voltage applications, construction, and operating principles as they relate to machinery monitoring & protection systems.

This position does not offer sponsorship. Only individuals who are US Citizens or green card holders are eligible to apply.