What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability Engineer position at Channel Personnel Services?
Ø Rotating Equipment: Pumps, Electric Motors, General Purpose Turbines, Shaft Sealing Systems, Lubrication Systems, Fin Fans, and Blowers
Ø Static Equipment: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Piping Systems, Valves, Relief Devices, Bolted Joint Integrity, and Temporary Repairs
Ø Budget: Influence budget through proactive identification and prioritization of maintenance expenditures:
Ø Contributes to the development and delivery of their respective production area’s major maintenance and operational expense budgets
Ø Monitors spend on maintenance work executed within the production area
Ø Prepares and submits well-defined work scopes and investment proposals to asset managers and site leadership teams
Ø Performs life cycle cost analyses to evaluate repair vs. replace alternatives and implement effective and cost-efficient solutions
Ø The mechanical engineer is the first point of contact for most mechanical systems in their respective production areas
Ø Work with Operations and Maintenance counterparts to solve day-to-day problems, ensuring safe and reliable unit operation
Ø Participate in production team meetings to maintain awareness of key activities and unit operating status
Ø Conduct routine field walkthroughs with operations, maintenance, and inspection to proactively evaluate concerns with equipment and provide recommendations
Ø Support as a key contributor during stabilization and recovery from operational upsets
Ø Critical Work Processes
Ø Manage Threats and Opportunities (MTO): Identify and prioritize threats and opportunities related to mechanical equipment, utilize problem solving skills to frame potential solutions, and take action to drive resolution
Ø Management of Change (MOC): Develop technical design bases, provide and facilitate technical assurance and hazard screening of design, assist with maintenance planning and execution activities, lead pre-startup safety reviews, and verify change close-out activities
Ø Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM): Manage and continuously improve asset care strategies for both fixed and rotating equipment using consistent methodologies and a standardized approach
Ø Maintenance Execution (ME): Drive compliance for critical planned maintenance, review deferral justifications, and seek optimization opportunities
Ø Process Safety Compliance: Manage and timely implement Process Safety recommendations for the assigned production areas
Ø Technical Delivery
Ø Leverage technical acumen to outline the detailed scope of changes to mechanical equipment
Ø Assure compliance with industry standards and company design practices for all plant changes
Ø Assess health of Mechanical Equipment by utilizing:
Ø Ensure Safe Production (ESP) – Review production unit shift reports, assess design operating window exceedances
Ø Manage Equipment Care (MEC) – Support completion of compliance inspections and implementation of asset care strategies for mechanical equipment
Ø Proactive Technical Monitoring – Review exceptions from Operations sensory rounds, assess vibration and oil sample analysis results, and recommend proactive corrective actions
Ø Seek to identify and close gaps in own technical competence in pursuit of qualification as a technical assurer for rotating and/or static equipment
Ø Problem Solving
Ø Champion the causal reasoning mindset within the area production team
Ø Perform investigations on failures related to mechanical equipment bad actors
Ø Seek to understand the root cause of failures and mitigate findings with robust solutions to prevent reoccurrence
Ø Identify opportunities to reduce waste in work processes using LEAN and other continuous improvement methodologies
QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS
v BS Mechanical Engineering
v 3 - 10 Years experience working with plant rotating and fixed equipment.
