Senior Reliability Engineer
Title: Senior Reliability Engineer
Location: Greater Houston
Focus: The Senior Reliability Engineer is responsible for increasing the reliability of the assigned production units by applying reliability principles, existing knowledge of equipment, and various reliability tools to identify solutions for the top reliability opportunities in the production unit. This role will collaborate with Maintenance Engineers (MEs), Run-Plant Engineers, Plant Operations personnel, Improvement Engineers, Site Maintenance personnel, and others to accomplish this goal.
Senior Reliability Engineer Essential Job Functions:
- Decrease equipment failure losses to meet the operational reliability and asset utilization goals for the production unit. Collaborate with others to resolve major unplanned events impacting production.
- Develop and drive implementation of a customized reliability plan for each of the assigned production units, updated annually.
- Update and implement facility specific strategy documents on an annual basis - Facility Maintenance Strategy, Facility Turnaround Strategy, and Reliability Opportunity List; evaluate all plant equipment for criticality and develop Equipment Reliability Strategy documents for all high-risk and plant selected medium-high-risk equipment.
- Utilize Root Cause Analysis methodology to perform effective problem analysis and root cause elimination; evaluate solutions for leveraging across the company.
- Help coach, develop, and mentor local Maintenance Engineers.
- Lead projects and engage with stakeholders to influence outcomes/champion new reliability tools; provide technical expertise for business-critical equipment rebuilds and procedure development; support production unit turnarounds and capital projects.
Senior Reliability Engineer Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree* in Engineering; Mechanical Engineering preferred
- 10+ years maintenance/reliability engineering experience
- Maintenance/reliability experience with most rotating equipment technologies including but not limited to pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, agitators, etc.
- Maintenance/reliability experience with most fixed equipment technologies including but not limited to exchangers, tanks, drums, towers, reactors, piping, etc.
- Basic understanding of project management, instrumentation and equipment
- Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking, solid team player with the ability to communicate across the organization
- SAP experience preferred
- Prior Olin experience in a relevant position preferred
- Must be able to obtain a TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) and possess a valid US Driver's license
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