Equipment & Reliability Engineer - Rotating Equipment

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February 28, 2026 (16 days left to apply) job requisition  Motiva, our employees’ energy, passion, and dedication to excellence are what make us who we are and what allows us to generate energy that makes a house a home, gets us from point A to point B, and enables our health and wellbeing. We invest in every aspect of our employees’ lives because, at Motiva, our people matter.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Motiva refines, distributes and markets petroleum products throughout the Americas. The company’s Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, TX, is comprised of North America’s largest refinery with a total throughput of 720,000 barrels per day, the largest base oil plant in the western hemisphere, and an integrated chemical plant. Under exclusive long-term brand licenses with Shell and Phillips 66 (for the 76 brand), Motiva’s commercial operations supply more than 12 billion gallons of fuel to customers annually.

Motiva is wholly owned by Aramco, one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies.
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* Position Overview:

** The Equipment & Reliability Engineer provides technical support for operators and crafts, and technical assurance for rotating equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation and maintenance for Production. This role will troubleshoot operational rotating equipment in support of the Maintenance Execution Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) work process and will identify, develop, and apply best practices in machinery design, maintenance and operation.
** Responsibilities:
*** Provide technical support to Production areas on mechanical upgrades, potential threats to production, or improvements for rotating equipment.
* Participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and rework reports concerning rotating equipment.
* Verification that designs, field installations, and repairs meet engineering standards or approve deviations.
* Participate in RCM analysis and establish alarms and limits for equipment through Ensure Safe Production (ESP) work process.
* Assist in scope preparation for Turnaround repairs and overhauls for rotating equipment.
* Develop and maintain “Bad Actor” list for respective area, identifying the highest maintenance or production impact equipment, identify and implement corrective actions needed to enhance the reliability for pumps.
* Participate in or facilitate Management of Change (MOC) reviews to ensure safe operation and design of equipment and related changes, apply engineering technology to improve safety and environmental related issues.
* Provide rotating equipment technical assurance support to Process Engineering, Project Engineering, and other technical groups, in the development and implementation of projects.
* Coordinate field performance tests on rotating equipment as requested/required in the course of resolving operational or efficiency problems.
* Develop or review operating procedures for plant rotating equipment as needed.
* Provide expertise to the Complex on lubrication and monitor the effectiveness of the lube oil analysis and lubrication recommendations program.
* Develop or assist in development of Opportunity Proposals for Capital Projects on rotating equipment, lead small (