Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer​/Specialist

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The Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer/Specialist is a key member of the Machinery Reliability Technical Group supporting the site's vision of being the most competitive refinery in North America. This role focuses on improving the reliability and performance of critical rotating equipment (pumps, compressors, and turbines) through a combination of hands‑on troubleshooting, engineering analysis, and reliability strategy development.

This position is ideal for individuals with either strong mechanical maintenance experience or engineering experience who want to expand their impact in equipment reliability and defect elimination.

• Lead troubleshoot and diagnosing efforts in collaboration with other work groups (including maintenance, operations, monitoring, engineering, and external resources as needed) to develop a proactive path forward for equipment issues including equipment upgrade, troubleshooting, maintenance rebuild and repair scopes.
• Provide technical support to both operations and maintenance personnel around machinery programs including predictive (PdM) maintenance, lubrication, alignment, and precision repair practices involving machinery specs/standards.
• Provide recommendations to MRTG, the production team, process business teams, and maintenance organization based on sound technical analysis and best practices.
• Support equipment monitoring, troubleshooting, and defect diagnosis through use of process and equipment health data from multiple sources, including:
  • Portable, wireless, and continuous vibration monitoring systems
  • Process and equipment performance monitoring instrumentation
• Area ownership of rotating equipment work order scopes, cases, and small project upgrade recommendations

• One year or more experience troubleshooting, maintaining, or improving rotating equipment in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment
• Experience with applying reliability, maintenance, or engineering principles (RCA, PdM, preventative maintenance, repair practices)
• Working knowledge of rotating equipment such as pumps, steam turbines, compressors, gearboxes, electric motors, etc.
• Demonstrated experience participating across maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to solve problems and implement solutions
• Ability to travel for technical development, professional development, conferences, factory acceptance testing, and third party shop audits

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field
• Experience in rotating equipment reliability engineering or maintenance within a refining or heavy industrial field
• ISO Vibration Analyst certification (Category I, II, or higher)
• International Council for Machinery Lubrication MLT/MLA Certifications
• Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
• Experience working with additional predictive technologies (motion amplification, oil analysis, ultrasonic, thermography)
• Hands‑on experience with installation, rebuilds, alignment, or repair of rotating equipment

For this role, we anticipate paying $110,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify.