Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

This role works hand in hand with operations, engineering, maintenance and asset management personnel to improve plant reliability. Through assessment of plant performance and maintenance data, the Maintenance & Reliability Engineer will develop and update preventative and predictive maintenance strategies to improve asset availability and minimize overall maintenance costs. Tools such as root cause failure analysis (RCFA), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), “Bad Actor” evaluations, risk‑based inspection (RBI), reliability‑centered maintenance (RCM), lifespan / probability of failure tools, predictive modeling tools and asset effectiveness data will be used to provide the information driving a long‑term reliability plan.

• Actively review predictive and preventative maintenance data and make recommendations regarding equipment inspection plans, frequency, corrective maintenance or capital improvements.
• Lead monthly reliability review meetings with operations, maintenance and asset management teams and support the asset management team in proper selection and storage of spare parts for critical equipment.
• Work with site pressure vessel, rotating equipment and IEC engineers to review and revise risk‑based inspection assessments, and make recommendations on inspection scope, intervals, repairs or capital investment as needed.
• Lead reliability‑based root‑cause analysis investigations for the area and maintain the unit’s action item database.
• Revise the “Bad Actor” list, considering production loss, maintenance costs and related production/process cost in the assessment, and prioritize and lead the most impactful Bad Actor improvement projects.
• Develop a new Autonomous Maintenance (AM) plan to establish new AM activities such as Clean, Inspect & Lubricate (CILs) and When‑Down‑Do lists; work closely with operations resources to review and create lubrication routes and set up a new lubrication bay.
• Lead and drive preventive maintenance plan optimization efforts within the assigned unit and improve equipment preventive and predictive maintenance plans by utilizing PM effectiveness data.
• Lead and/or participate in FMEAs for critical equipment as necessary and apply changes to equipment strategy documentation as a result of FMEA reviews.
• Participate in capital project scope development and design reviews related to reliability, modifications or improvements as necessary; advise project managers on appropriate changes to preventive maintenance and sparing strategies.
• Support scope development and execution of turnaround work as needed.
• Communicate with the unit’s asset owner to make updates to the long‑term capital and major maintenance strategies and associated cost plans.
• Support the maintenance teams in troubleshooting followed by scope development for reliability‑related equipment modifications.
• Participate in the management of change process from resulting modifications.
• Work with maintenance personnel to optimize planned maintenance activities, including further digitalization of PMs, to improve records retention and “wrench time.”

Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university is required.

Professional Engineering registration is highly preferred.

This position requires five or more years of relevant industrial experience in reliability engineering.

• Extensive experience in rotating machinery reliability (pumps, fans, compressors, conveyors, agitators, gearboxes, bearings, mechanical seals, couplings).
• Demonstrated success in applying advanced reliability tools such as RCM, RCA, RBI, FMEA, and apportionment methods.
• Extensive knowledge in the use and application of predictive and preventive technologies (vibration, lubricant and fluid analysis, infrared, alignment, balancing, and other NDT technologies as they apply to rotating machinery and fixed equipment).
• Extensive experience with computer‑aided maintenance management systems such as Maximo and SAP Maintenance Module.
• Knowledge and understanding of human factors in reliability.
• Ability to plan and schedule…