Reliability Engineer

The Reliability Engineer reports the Maintenance Engineering Manager and is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks to the plant’s production, machinery, process production equipment, and refining equipment. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing plant equipment maintenance strategies, systems and engineering advice to allow the Maintenance department to cost effectively achieve plant availability and reliability requirements, comply with all relevant and statutory legislation and meet the requirements of all internal UBE standards and procedures.

If standards and procedures do not exist, then this role will create such standards and procedures.

• Collaborates with Operations personnel in troubleshooting problems from a mechanical perspective.
• Maintain and improve plant reliability through identifying/correcting operational reliability.
• Collaborate with Maintenance and Reliability groups to identify and correct bad actors, drive root cause failure analysis, meet mechanical integrity requirements and implement preventive/predictive maintenance programs.
• Provide expertise for turnarounds from a mechanical operations perspective. Helps to set strategies, schedules, objectives, manage scope and operational services as requested.
• Accountable for creating preventative maintenance plans. Validates the frequencies and required time needed to complete PM work, with assistance from the appropriate personnel (i.e., Planners, Craft Supervisors, etc.), and documents.
• Review and contribute to programs for critical equipment analysis and condition monitoring.
• Review deficiencies noted during corrective maintenance activities to continually evaluate the effectiveness of preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
• Consults with Maintenance Technicians on technical problems including advanced troubleshooting and equipment redesign.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable pressure equipment, pipeline and statutory requirements.
• Aids in the design review of any temporary leak repairs and piping systems.
• Assists with other disciplines (Rotating, I/E, etc.) as required.
• Ensure compliance with applicable industry codes and standards such as ASME, API (510, 570, 653), and NBIC.
• Participate in critical site-evaluations such as Process Hazard Analyses (HAZOPs) and Process Safety Management (PSM) reviews.
• Ability to work closely with both the Production Team and Technical Team to ensure the reliability and continuous improvement of the systems.
• Understand the economic impact of plant availability is significant and modify in-progress construction projects; make appropriate adjustments to schedules as needed and communicate changes to appropriate parties.
• Interpret, analyze, apply, articulate, and ensure compliance with relevant laws, rules, contracts, ordinances, regulations and guidelines.
• Analyze problems, identify alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions and implement recommendations in support of goals.
• Strong commitment to safety and regulatory compliance.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Reliability Engineer in a petrochemical environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering preferred, or other relevant Engineering discipline.
• Experience with development and implementation of Maintenance Equipment Strategies.
• Experience with Predictive and Preventative Maintenance Programs.
• Experience with static equipment with API 510, 570 and 653 certifications.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and make meaningful impact to technical requirements on projects.
• Hold optimization of equipment maintenance activities and strategies background.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation abilities with the capacity to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated success in safety performance management.

• Maintenance and testing of safety shutdown systems.
• Experience in manufacturing environments fostering a positive workplace culture.
• Operations and maintenance…