Senior Maintenance Engineer | Power 9

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About You and this Role:

In this role, you will serve as a Senior Maintenance Engineer supporting the Power 9/High Purity Water/Industrial Gasses facility in Texas Operations, Plant B located in Freeport, TX. These assets are critical infrastructure providing steam, energy and utilities for the operating facilities in Plant B.

The successful candidate provides engineering support to address plant issues that are impacting production in the near term, as well as technical expertise which may be equipment based or repair technique based that impacts the availability and maintainability of the facility.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a subject matter expert in equipment failures and repair techniques during root cause investigations.  Develops job procedures for repair techniques as required.
• Partners with the plant operations staff to provide technical expertise to plant personnel on troubleshooting failures, repairs, and evaluating whether equipment is designed to meet its intended or existing service conditions.
• Enters quality, service and product performance information into the reporting system.
• Participates in developing the maintenance budget to support the maintenance strategy.
• Provides engineering input for work packages to ensure standards are followed, as required. Provides input on development of work orders during development of turnaround work particularly on critical equipment requiring engineering review or input.
• Provides equipment reliability and performance data to the technical resource networks for input into equipment purchasing requirements, evaluation of equipment performance, vendor performance, and modifications to Most Effective Technology Library
• Completes EH&S orientation and all required training. Exhibits safe work behaviors and works safely without injury or insult to the environment. Fulfills all requirements of the production area and/or maintenance area EH&S.  Uses knowledge to ensure repair techniques contain necessary information to safely execute scope of work.
• Uses maintenance spending, reliability, and maintenance metrics for assigned area. Understands objectives of the Facility Maintenance Strategy for assigned areas and relevant history of equipment failures.
• Analyzes impact of equipment failures on maintenance spending to identify improvement opportunities. Initiates reliability related MOCs and effectively implement change in own area of responsibility in coordination with appropriate leadership. Understands principles of Long Term Cost of Ownership. Analyzes and troubleshoots maintenance spending in assigned area with coaching.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience (i.e. maintenance, engineering, reliability, etc.).
• Ability to work comfortably and safely at elevated heights. Candidates must be familiar with, or willing to undergo training in, the proper usage and maintenance of safety equipment to ensure safe movement and operations at heights.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Skills:

• A degree in mechanical engineering.
• Prior experience working in a petrochemical facility.

Note: This position does not offer relocation assistance.

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• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across