Reliability Engineer

Position: Reliability Engineer
Location: Corpus Christi Texas
Salary: $100000 $120000 Bonus (On Target Earnings $150000)

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering required mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Three years of experience as Reliability Engineer required; in the chemical industry preferred.
• Certifications in Six Sigma (Green Belt Lean) preferred.

The primary role of the Reliability Engineer is to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. The three significant aspects of that role are Loss Elimination Risk Management and Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM).

Principal Accountabilities:

• Health Safety and Environment
• Works safely maintains a safe work environment attends safety training and other related meetings and actively participates and drives all safety programs:
• Knows all safety policies and procedures (especially the Big 4 Take 2 LO/TO Confined Space and Injury Reporting)
• Knows all safety standards.
• Reports all incidents immediately.
• Completes Management of Change where appropriate
• Works to keep an environmentally sound facility
• Knows and follows Emergency Response Plan

Reliability Support:

• Works with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Participates in developing design and installation specifications and commissioning plans. Participates in developing criteria for and evaluating equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Participates in the final checkout of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing to ensure adherence to functional specifications.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment processes utilities facilities controls and safety/security systems.
• Professionally and systematically defines designs develops monitors and refines an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes:
• Valueadded preventive maintenance tasks
• Effective utilization of predictive and other nondestructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan to anticipate reliabilityrelated and nonreliabilityrelated risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity quality cost or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility the Reliability Engineer applies the following:
• Data analysis techniques that can include:
• Statistical Process Control
• Reliability modeling and prediction
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Weibull Tree Analysis
• Six Sigma (6) Methodology
• Rootcause and RootCause Failure Analysis (RCA RCFA)
• Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Works with Production to perform analyses of assets including:
• Asset Utilization
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Remaining useful life
• Other parameters that define the operating condition reliability and costs of assets
• Provides technical support to production maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace repair/redesign and make/buy decisions.
• Keep maintenance and technical documentation current sending markups for updates as necessary.
• Identify training needs to maintain the required skills and knowledge to perform the job to the necessary standard.

Competencies:
Leadership

• Sets high standards for self and others actively follows procedures suggests ways for improvements and regularly checks operating key measures.
• Finds ways to enhance own productivity. Takes individual responsibility for tasks provides full support to others and gives help and assistance readily.
• Keeps self and others informed about changes to plant and equipment.
• Provides annual performance reviews with subordinates.

SelfDirecting Continuous Improvement

• Sound knowledge of equipment can predict outcomes and demonstrates care for the plant and equipment. Persistent in getting things done with the ability to prioritize activities.
• Communicates with operators regarding the status of jobs and whereabouts. Works with all parties to ensure the job is performed to the specifications and finds ways to do it better.
• Aware of likely consequences of actions systematically selecting alternative courses before making decisions and quickly identifying discrepancies between what should and should be happening.
• Ability to identify causes and effects in problem situations gathers information to diagnose and assess current conditions clarifying and define problems. Confronts situations reacts quickly and effectively in emergencies and reflects on the root cause to learn from experience.
• Unit downtime rate and quality excursions require immediate attention and reallocation of the workforce despite other projects underway.

Knowledge/Experience/Skills Required

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering required. Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Three years of experience as Reliability Engineer required; in the chemical industry preferred.
• Certifications in Six Sigma (Green Belt Lean) preferred.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as excellent interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Strong critical thinking and problemsolving skills are required.
• Capacity to work with limited supervision and support in a rapidly changing and fastpaced environment.
• Must demonstrate ability to teach/train staff members at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to interact collaboratively with other departments teams and stakeholders.
• Fluent verbal and written skills are required to communicate within the operations team and other American Chrome and Chemicals departments.
• Able to lead teams through good leadership skills. Give clear direction and the ability to control and plan activities effectively.
• Ability to collect and interpret data into information and factbased solutions and planning using creativity and imagination. Evaluates based on measurable or verifiable criteria.
• Proficiency in computer software programs systems (i.e. Lotus Notes Word Excel Access Intouch PowerPoint Access) is required.

Planning of work relationships and level of autonomy:

• Work is identified through the maintenance work order system immediate supervisor and plantwide customers (Production maintenance technical staff).
• The Incumbent will determine resources to be used for assigned job tasks.
• Support the entire plant and external contacts with providers and all levels of the organization

The description provided does not necessarily include all essential functions and does not include all duties responsibilities and obligations of an employee in the position of Technical Manager. Duties responsibilities obligations and functions of ones job can and will as necessary change as required by business necessity. Employees will be evaluated in their job performance based on all aspects and functions of their position whether or not explicitly identified herein.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive Base Salary and Bonus
• Excellent Benefits including:
• Medical Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k Program
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance (with voluntary Term and AD&D available)
• Short & Longterm Disability
• Accidental Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance (Aflac)
• Voluntary ShortTerm Disability
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Identity Theft Protection

Remote Work :

No