What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Reliability Engineer position at Ecoservices?
Ecovyst is a materials science, catalyst, and services company dedicated to creating innovative technologies that play a critical role in supporting ecological health and help our customers solve complex challenges.
Our cutting-edge solutions span across two industry-leading businesses, Ecoservices and Advanced Materials and Catalyst.
- Ecoservices is dedicated to services that have a positive impact on our planet. Our Ecoservices business provides specialty grade high purity virgin sulfuric acid for a number of diverse and growing end uses.
- Advanced Materials and Catalyst Technologies specializes in silica supports and catalysts. This business allows us to develop innovative technologies that enable our customers and value chain partners to create sustainable products.
What We Offer
- Competitive pay
- Full benefit package
- 401k matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
Position Overview
The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the plant’s equipment operates safely, at the highest capacity, with the highest possible on-stream time, for the lowest long-term cost of ownership. This position requires sound mechanical knowledge and understanding of all equipment families to provide hands-on support to the maintenance team
What You Will Be Doing
- Being a change agent, inspiring discipline, efficiency, and accountability to the maintenance workforce in the overall execution of day-to-day activities.
- Provide technical assistance to Maintenance Planners and Supervisors for creation of job packages for all classes of equipment such as fixed (i.e. tanks, pipe, etc.), rotating equipment (i.e. mechanical seals, turbine overhauls, bearing designs, etc.), I&E (i.e. analyzers, flow meters, switchgear, etc.).
- Assist with Process Safety Management (PSM) compliance as it relates to mechanical integrity, engineering design, relief devices, process safety information, maintenance related procedures and all applicable document retention requirements.
- Routinely reviews backlogs and/or MI compliance reports to ensure all critical PM/PDMs and MI inspections are scheduled/completed within established time limits.
- Establish, track, communicate, and improve Maintenance KPIs and metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of the Maintenance Work Processes.
- Supports Reliability Engineer with optimization of preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance based on failure and inspection history. Coordinate the administration of the program including the control of all data and the specification of the content and frequencies of work and inspections.
- Support Operations and Maintenance on troubleshooting failures, repairs and evaluating whether the equipment is designed to meet its intended or existing service conditions.
- Provide technical support for specification, identification, and purchasing of needed parts and equipment.
- Recommend (to Operations and Maintenance) items to include in turnaround work. During turnarounds, ascertain conditions of mechanical equipment--working with Inspectors and Maintenance personnel. Provide input into post-turnaround reports.
- Leads Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) teams to diagnose equipment failures and drive corrective actions utilizing expertise on failures and repair techniques.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university or equivalent combination of education and experience. Mechanical or Chemical engineering preferred.
- Min of 3 years of relevant maintenance and reliability experience, preferably in a chemical, petrochemical, or refinery production plant with emphasis on planning, scheduling, and executing maintenance activities.
- Formal Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) training/certification
- SAP experience
