Rotating Equipment Lead

Description

The Rotating Equipment Lead is a senior-level professional responsible for ensuring compliance with the reliability program requirements, lead and participating on complex troubleshooting, acting as a trainer and quality control for ensuring that all maintenance, repairs, and installations are completed efficiently and safely.

• Ensure the rotating equipment are reliable and its performance is aligned with site and unit reliability targets.
• Under direction, plans, assigns, inspects, supervises and participates in the work of personnel involved in the testing, construction, installation, maintenance and repair of a wide variety of rotating equipment, and devices used in the generating and pumping plant facilities; supervises and participates in performing preventive and corrective maintenance tasks associated with protection schemes, monitoring and control equipment, metering, and sensors; and performs related duties as assigned.
• Plans and evaluates the performance of assigned personnel; provides coaching for performance improvement and development.
• Provides day‑to‑day leadership and works with staff to ensure a high performance, customer‑oriented work environment that supports achieving the department's strategic plan, mission, objectives and values.
• Schedules, coordinates and supervises the work of personnel engaged in the installation, testing, calibration, maintenance and repair of rotating equipment and machinery used in the generation and pumping plant facilities.
• Supervises a variety of difficult and complex tasks in the testing, adjusting, calibrating, modifying, analyzing, operating, and correcting malfunctions in pressure, temperature, flow, vibration, speed, level measuring, monitoring and control systems.
• Support unit MOC process, including Reliability approval of new or modified instrumentation and electrical system designs and changes to instrument system care plans.
• Support the other Maintenance Team members and Reliability with troubleshooting as needed.
• Lead reliability investigations for significant instrumentation and electrical system failures, including proper application of RCA process and corrective action plans.
• Participate in Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), ISO 9000 audits, site/corporate audits.
• Develop action plans to achieve results, including recommendations to resolve emerging issues as part of the “Bad Actor” Process involving rotating equipment.
• Create the critical spare part list for rotating equipment.
• Collaborate with Maintenance Planner and Operations to understand and set priority for rotating equipment repairs impacting reliability.
• Build strategy around rotating equipment training and knowledge support.
• Creates and delivers training to develop the technical capabilities of the reliability, maintenance, and operations team.
• Network with site Reliability team to share best practices.
• Provide technical review of engineering projects; works with OEMs, unit and project teams on specification and selection of new rotating equipment.
• Requisition s materials necessary for plant equipment repair and equipment compliance.
• Purchasing responsibilities, as needed.
• Can interpret blueprints and drawings for part identification and preventative maintenance construction.
• Creates and monitors machine history for predictive failures.
• Coordinates outside contractor schedules to meet Maintenance schedule.
• Submits recommendations for MRO stocking level additions, deletions, and modifications to the Reliability Manager.
• Monitor, track and run reports.
• For new projects or new PM recommendations due to recurrent failures, inform the reliability engineer and planner the need of PM creation and establish the frequency.
• Sporadically audit the Maintenance Team paperwork to ensure they are keeping proper documentation in the files which includes photos, time sheets, etc.
• Evaluate progress and prepare detailed reports.
• Ensure adherence to all health and safety standards and report issues.
• Process project closeouts.
• Perform accurate data entry.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.
• Researches new electrical and mechanical methods, techniques, and…