Team Lead, Rotating Equipment Reliability

Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Team Lead, Rotating Equipment Reliability through 08/16/2026 at 11:59 p.m. (PST).  

The Rotating Equipment Reliability (RER) Team Lead is responsible for setting work priorities, coordinating day-to-day execution, and developing the capabilities of a team of Rotating Equipment Reliability Analysts. This role partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, and Turnaround/Projects organizations to improve the safety, availability, and lifecycle cost of critical rotating equipment across the refinery. The Team Lead drives consistent reliability practices, ensures high-quality technical work products, and leads continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen machinery performance and organizational effectiveness.
Manages group and employee work to align with corporate/department objectives.  Direct reports are typically individual contributors.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of rotating equipment reliability professionals; set clear expectations, provide technical mentoring, and support effective decision-making.

• Prioritize and coordinate team workload to address emergent equipment issues, planned reliability work, and partner with operations and routine maintenance on improving long term machinery reliability processes.

• Provide leadership and technical oversight during troubleshooting of high-criticality rotating equipment outages, balancing safe restoration to service with long-term reliability solutions.

• Drive high-quality machinery condition monitoring and diagnostics by reviewing surveillance results, performance trends, and follow-up action plans. Collaborate across the business to enable support teams to effectively execute surveillance and diagnostic workflows.

• Ensure accurate, complete rotating equipment record-keeping (equipment history, repairs, failure events, and modifications) and promote strong learning loops across the organization.

• Provide assurance for rotating equipment repairs and installations (e.g., repair scopes, shop/vendor quality, commissioning readiness). Manage contract business partners. Steward rotating equipment spare parts procurement and repairables.

• Partner with Turnaround and Capital Projects teams to define rotating equipment scope, provide technical input, and support execution and startup.

• Support and/or lead root cause failure analyses and formal investigations for repeat, rework or high-impact equipment failures.

• Collaborate with peer sites and corporate/enterprise reliability communities to share best practices, standardize approaches, and accelerate learning.

• Ensure consistent use of reliability tools and processes (e.g., equipment strategy optimization, bad-actor management, reliability investigations, and defect elimination).

• Communicate progress, risks, and performance insights to stakeholders; deliver quarterly KPI reporting and use data to influence priorities and measure improvement.

• Coordinate and participate in off-hours callout support for rotating equipment reliability issues as needed.
   

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).

• Demonstrated experience in rotating equipment reliability, maintenance, operations, machinery engineering, and/or facilities engineering within a complex process industry environment (e.g., refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, power).

• Strong working knowledge of rotating equipment systems (pumps, compressors, turbines, motors, gearboxes, seals, bearings) and common failure modes.

• Training and/or certification in vibration analysis and machinery diagnostics tools and programs such as Emerson 2140, Emerson AMS, Bently-Nevada System 1, Bently-Nevada 3500 installations, Windrock, ADRE etc. 

• Ability to analyze equipment health and performance data and communicate actionable recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven ability to lead through influence and collaborate across disciplines to drive safe, effective outcomes.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to respond to emergent equipment issues, including periodic off-hours support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing or improving rotating equipment asset strategies, preventive/predictive maintenance programs, and repair standards.

• Experience supporting turnarounds, major maintenance events, or capital project execution/startups.

• Vendor/shop quality