IEA Reliability Team Lead

Job Overview

The IEA Reliability Team Lead is a working Engineer in the Reliability department reporting to the Reliability Manager. The position coaches, mentors, and supervises IEA Engineers to ensure the site’s core equipment and assets function according to defined standards, while maintaining performance KPIs. The role provides engineering support through reliability improvements, expense & capital projects, and outage & turnaround activities. This is a developmental role designed for an engineer aspiring to become a future Lyondell Basell manager.

• Lead a multi‑discipline team of IEA Maintenance Engineers to develop, monitor, and continuously improve a maintenance strategy ensuring asset performance and value over life cycles.
• Assign responsibilities for engineers supporting routine, strategic objectives, outages, turnarounds, small capital projects, OE, and PSM requirements.
• Ensure KPIs are met through active management of workload and performance.
• Manage risk to the achievement of strategic objectives in environmental health & safety, asset capability, quality, and production.
• Deliver GoalZERO performance through strong leadership and employee/contractor involvement.
• Assist in developing the annual reliability budget and updating long‑range plans.
• Facilitate team member development through coaching, identifying training opportunities, and providing continuous constructive feedback.
• Drive a strong engineering discipline culture that includes continuous improvement.
• Facilitate completion of performance appraisals, development plans, and support review determinations.
• Ensure adherence to the Code of Conduct and all company policies.
• Coordinate and approve vacations and working schedules for team members.
• Assign engineers to support unit roles, capital projects, maintenance projects, investigations, and turn‑arounds.
• Assist maintenance engineers with troubleshooting and failure analysis of equipment.
• Systematically develop, monitor, and improve an IEA asset maintenance strategy (predictive, preventive, failure‑finding, corrective) and maintain spare‑parts inventory.
• Provide technical support in design and installation stages of new or modified assets to minimize cost and maximize availability.
• Actively participate in reliability improvement and/or Path to Excellence teams.
• Develop and maintain site maintenance & reliability procedures and guidelines.
• Conduct independent protection layer (IPL) validations to support PHAs.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in the chemical or refinery industry.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to work across multi‑disciplinary teams during turnarounds.
• Effective leadership and organizational skills.
• Integrity, honesty, and authenticity when earning trust.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of private employee information.
• Willingness to coach, develop, and hold others accountable.
• Commitment to health, safety, security, and environmental work processes.
• Project and budget management experience.

• Barrier Failure Analysis methodologies.
• Industry codes and standards (ASME, API, ANSI, ISA, IEEE, NEC, NFPA) and their application.
• Knowledge of process equipment such as turbo machinery, pumps, steam turbines, compressors, blowers, gearboxes, piping, flanges, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, motors, MCCs, transformers, transmitters, control valves, analyzers, SIS & DCS systems.
• Instrumentation and measurement technology.
• PLC programming and maintenance.
• Analyzers and sample systems.
• Diagnostics and equipment repair.
• Component failure analysis.
• Business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes.
• Electronic tools (SAP, Meridium, Documentum, Conval, AMS, ExSILentia, Power BI, Microsoft Office).

• Experience with both instrumentation and electrical equipment.
• Familiarity with IEC 61511.
• Independent protection layer (IPL) validation experience.

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Lyondell Basell is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The U.S. EEO law poster is available. LYB is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

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