Mechanical Reliability Engineer, Lake Charles Refinery

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The Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing technical support in maintaining equipment and facilities in a safe and environmentally responsible manner with a focus on defect elimination. This position analyzes mechanical equipment, histories and trends, and implements strategies to improve equipment function, reliability, or efficiency.

Responsibilities May Include

• Lead the Area Reliability Teams (ARTs) aimed at defect elimination and proactive failure prevention
• Interface with Operations, Maintenance, and Inspection teams to understand, define, and prioritize bad actor improvement initiatives
• Identify improvement plans with the objective to remove the bad actor from the ART watch list
• Submit reliability budget recommendations to improve equipment availability and reduce LPO/MMO
• Perform appropriate root cause analysis on chronic equipment failures and implement corrective action plans to prevent reoccurrence
• Complete specific equipment plans based on equipment and system criticality
• Ensure appropriate asset strategies are in place, including spare parts listing and inventory, preventive and predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, operator care, equipment/process monitoring, structured rounds, reliability operating limits and operating strategy
• Steward sustainable implementation of Reliability Management Best Practices
• Develop infrastructure multi-year plans which will be incorporated into the LRP budget process and provide a basis for the execution teams
• Serve as area mechanical focal point for capital project support as required
• Participate in P66 Networks and interface with P66 resources to develop and review best practices and required standards as well as share lessons learned
• Ensure required standards are utilized and implemented in reliability improvement efforts
• Support Turnarounds and unit outages as needed, including coordinating MOC’s and supporting execution
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 5 or more years of experience in an engineering role associated with industrial mechanical equipment
• Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC). Information can be found at https://twicprogram.tsa.dhs.gov/TWICWebApp/
• Must be willing and able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to comply with the following:
• Travel up to 5% of the time
• Occasional on-call duties
• Work extended hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Transport articles up to 50 pounds
• Work safely near large, hot, high-speed machines
• Climb ladders and stairs up to 200 feet in height
• Work around chemicals, including acids and bases
• Work around hydrocarbons under high pressure and heat
• Work outside in harsh weather conditions
• Wear fire retardant clothing and personal protective equipment (such as steel-toe shoes, ear and eye protection)
• Maintain face daily so that a respirator/face mask can seal properly (some examples include being free of facial hair and/or clean shaven)
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
• 3 or more years of experience in the predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance of mechanical process equipment
• 3 or more years of experience working in a manufacturing and/or petrochemical facility
• Familiar with API codes that apply to rotating and fixed equipment
• Familiar with Reliability Principles (i.e. Weibull Analysis, Reliability Modeling, MTBF, etc.)
• Working Knowledge of SAP maintenance related functions and Meridium Asset Performance Management
• Working knowledge of process data historian, such as Process Book
• Experience with compressors, pumps, drums, heat exchangers, and process towers
  
  

The Lake Charles Refinery is located in Westlake, Louisiana. Refinery facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization and delayed coking units. Facilities also include a specialty coker and calciner. The refinery processes a mixture of light to heavy, low- and high sulfur and low- and high-acid crude oils. It receives domestic, Canadian and other foreign crude oil through truck, pipeline, marine transportation and terminals, including the Beaumont and Clifton Ridge terminals and the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Lake Charles produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products include off-road diesel, home heating oil, feedstock for our Excel Paralubes joint venture, specialty graphite petroleum coke and petroleum coke. Refined products are distributed in the southeastern and eastern United States by truck, rail car, barge or pipelines and exported to Latin America and West Africa.

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At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:

• Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
• 8% 401k company match
• Cash Balance Account pension
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
• Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services
  
  

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To be considered

In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 03/18/2025 .

Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Phillips 66 is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Women/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities