Senior Mechanical Engineer, Fixed Equipment

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Messer is the largest privately held industrial gas business in the world, and a leading industrial and medical gas company in North and South America. Messer offers over 120 years of expertise in industrial, medical, specialty, and electronic gases and safely delivers quality gases, related services and technology via an extensive production and distribution network.

The Messer Group GmbH is a supplier of industrial gases. Business is focused on 30 European and Asian countries. The company headquarters are located in Bad Soden. Messer is selling gases for industrial use like oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases and gases for medical use.

Job Description

Job Summary :

Messer owns and operates a large portfolio of industrial gas plants, including ASU, CO2, H2, Helium plants, serving customers within a wide range of industries.  The primary function of this role is providing mechanical engineering support to our operations, reliability, and project execution groups for piping, vessels, and other fixed equipment.  This position provides direct engineering support for maintenance and repair efforts and subject matter expertise for mechanical integrity, regulatory compliance, strategy ownership, and preventive maintenance program content involving fixed equipment.

Principal Responsibilities :

• Provide engineering support for all operational ASU, CO2, H2, H, and onsite plants ensuring they are safe and capable thru effectively managed mechanical integrity and preventive maintenance programs.
• Provides Piping and Vessel engineering specification and design for plant replacement, modification, or repair activities.
• Direct and / or lead the assessment of infrastructure equipment as part of the due diligence process associated with the takeover of plant from previous owners.
• Ensure the mechanical integrity of pressure systems is maintained and equipment is fit for purpose thru proper specification, procurement, operation, and maintenance practices.
• Owns, reviews, challenges, and updates the collection of standards and procedures relating to Mechanical Integrity RBI and other condition assessment processes to minimize cost while ensuring equipment is always safe to operate, fit for purpose and remains in compliance with regulatory requirements or best practices.
• Manage compliance of regulatory inspection programs for pressure vessels.
• Subject Matter Expert of National Board, ASME and API code interpretations as they relate to equipment and systems as well as understanding state by state requirements under these codes.
• Monitors and Manages piping and vessel inspections. Conducts both in house inspections and thru 3rd party contractors. Develops scope of work and partners with local plant managers and procurement on contractor evaluation and selection.
• Approves all piping and vessel inspection and repair procedures, including welding procedures and techniques.
• Work closely with Procurement on evaluating 3rd party services, preparation of work scopes, specifications, KPI’s and surveillance.

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