Title: Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer
Location: Baytown TX (OnSite)
Type: Contract
What role you will play in our team
As part of an integrated facility including Refinery and Chemical plants Machinery Engineers have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of rotating equipment including extruders hypercompressors turboexpanders steam turbines and cogen facilities. In addition they are part of a larger engineering organization so get to collaborate with other machinery and nonmachinery engineers.
What you will do
- Work in a team environment with other engineering disciplines operations and mechanical personnel.
- Proactively seek improvements directed at increasing plant reliability.
- Specify new rotating equipment to comply with industry and company design practices.
- Ensure safe cost effective operable rotating equipment and associated systems are provided and maintained to meet current business unit needs.
- Have leadership capabilities with strong organizational communication and team working skills through a combination of formal training and/or experiences.
- Provide quality control and design reviews of new projects that involve rotating equipment.
- Periodically review rotating equipment thermodynamic and mechanical performance
- Have experience with machinery monitoring and troubleshooting including bearings seals and auxiliary support systems and vibration analysis.
- Lead RCFA development.
- Provide assistance in the field during plant startups shutdowns or upsets.
- Deliver guidance to the business units on prioritization of machinery related work.
- Have a demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
- Be able to provide offhours support of abnormal and nonroutine operation.
Skills and Qualifications
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering
- 10 years of experience in rotating support equipment roles in a petrochemical manufacturing facility
- Knowledge of industry standards for purchasing equipment and repair standard
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience
- Engagement in Turnaround related activities including planning and execution.
- Familiarity with compressors and steam turbines including their control and protective systems.
- Experience with machinery involved in the manufacturer of Low and HighDensity Polyethylene