Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer, GTP

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Purpose/Introduction

Chevron Phillips Chemical is seeking a Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer to join the Reliability Team for the Golden Triangle Polymers facility located in Orange, TX. This is an exciting opportunity to utilize your experience and be part of a team contributing to the design, startup, and operation of a new plant from the ground up.

 

The Rotating Equipment Engineer will function as the site’s machinery, asset integrity, and reliability subject matter expert. The principal objective of this position is to ensure that the equipment availability meets or exceeds the production requirements while maintaining compliance with company and regulatory mechanical integrity standards. Primarily this will be achieved through the development and implementation of programmatic activities, monitoring, and preserving the integrity and performance of the equipment. Additionally, this position will be actively involved in the daily operation of the facility taking appropriate action to mitigate or prevent unplanned equipment failures. Initially, this position will be more project focused ensuring the equipment is properly commissioned, and ready to support a safe, orderly, and timely start-up of the facility. Following startup, the job functions will transition to a more traditional reliability role characterized by normal plant operations.

 

This position will be assigned to the project location in Orange, TX and will transition to ongoing operations following commissioning and startup with an expected commitment through stable start-up operations.

Responsibilities

• Acts as safety leader to promote CPChem Safety Culture to all project personnel, including contractors, subcontractors, and vendor representatives.
• Participate and complete Operational Readiness activities supporting the commissioning and startup of the facility.
• Participate in system completion walkdowns, and PSSRs.
• Participate in vendor factory and site acceptance tests as required.
• Assist in completion of licensor guarantee and lender’s reliability tests following initial startup.
• Develop the Inspection, Testing, and Preventative Maintenance methodologies for rotating equipment ensuring they follow company and industry standards.
• Establish and execute the GTP failure identification and elimination work process to identify and eliminate high-impact failures affecting the facility.
• Assist maintenance personnel with equipment troubleshooting.
• Champion equipment component enhancements as required through the MOC process.
• Develop and approve equipment repair procedures and establish the needed quality control verifications.

Responsibilities (continued)

• Develop rotating equipment repair recommendations and provide technical support to the Turnaround and Maintenance organizations during the execution of equipment overhauls and repairs.
• Function as the focal point for the Meridium site implementation.
• Manage and lead root cause failure investigations for rotating equipment.
• Manage the oil analysis and vibration analysis of rotating equipment.
• Oversee and lead the assessments of both the mechanical integrity covered equipment and equipment criticality.
• Review BOM for installed rotating equipment and make stocking and quantity recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and at least five (5) years of experience within the chemical or refinery industry.
• Strong skills with a thorough knowledge of rotating equipment including but not limited to pumps, compressors (centrifugal, reciprocating, screw), and steam turbines (special and general purpose).
• Knowledge of mechanical standards as applied in petrochemical industry codes (i.e. API, ASME, ANSI).
• Condition monitoring program experience.
• Ability to communicate with cross-functional