Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer

The Sr. Rotating Equipment Engineer will provide machinery engineering support and reliability improvements to the refinery. This position is responsible for reviewing and implementing site-wide standards and improvements to obtain optimum asset performance from Rotating Equipment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop and apply machinery technical knowledge to support and improve overall equipment reliability including:

• Assisting the Maintenance Machinery Specialists with equipment troubleshooting and providing recommendations for identified machinery problems to assigned business teams.
• Elimination of repeat failures, including root cause analysis and risk analysis.
• Evaluating current performance and improvements to develop and support short-term and long-term reliability plans, capital projects, and turnarounds through execution. This task will include interacting with internal and external personnel in scope development, cost-benefit analysis, procurement of machinery, and field execution.
• Responds to abnormal plant operational events and provides engineering support for daily operations.
• Reviews and develops operating and maintenance procedures.
• Initiates Management of Change (MOC) documents and completes associated engineering review(s) for Rotating Equipment changes in assigned area.
• Educates and mentors others on technical details of machinery and Rotating Equipment best practices.
• Works with internal customers and groups in the support of day-to-day troubleshooting and performance to ensure machinery operability, environmental compliance, and process safety.
• Provides scope and technical oversight to external vendor shops that occasionally execute machinery repairs.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Years experienced in refinery, petrochemical or equivalent industrial machinery design, repair, and maintenance.
• Familiar with machinery performance analysis including compressor / pump efficiency evaluation, vibration analysis, and hydraulic analysis.
• Experienced in Root-Cause Analysis & facilitating investigations.
• Understanding of basic instrument design and low voltage applications, construction, and operating principles as they relate to machinery monitoring & protection systems.

*Sponsorship is not available for this position*