Associate Engineer - Fixed Equipment

PBF Energy • Oregon, OH

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About The Position

Provide mechanical engineering support to assigned refinery business team. Ensure their assigned business team is supported from a reliability, mechanical integrity, and technical mechanical repair perspective.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Less than 2 years of relevant job experience.

Responsibilities

• The Fixed Equipment Engineer is responsible for supporting their business team on fixed equipment reliability and repairs.
• Review and recommend immediate/temporary/permanent repairs for identified anomalies or deficiencies under the guidance of a more experienced Engineer.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis initiatives.
• Serve as a safety champion throughout the refinery complex by ensuring full compliance to critical safety requirements including appropriate use of PPE, support of safe work practices and participate in all safety-related activities.
• Work under the guidance of an experienced Engineer to set long-term equipment reliability goals, evaluate technical assessments.
• Develop Fixed Equipment Engineer critical equipment and bad actor list for their business team under the guidance of an experienced Engineer.
• Review technical and economic analysis of repairs to justify engineering improvement and recommended priorities under the guidance of an experienced Engineer.
• Support the implementation of risk-based and inspection strategies for equipment assets including piping, vessels, reactors, fired heaters, boilers, and other appropriate HC processing equipment.
• Maintain effective lines of communication across the refinery including the Inspection group, Maintenance, Operations, Process Engineering, etc.
• Ensure appropriate communication / work with Inspections, Process Engineers, and Operations in predicting failures and proactively provide resolutions to reliability issues.
• Participate in the Risk Based Work Selection (RBWS) process for turnaround scope development under the guidance of an experienced Engineer.
• Ensure appropriate turnaround engineering package development support during scope development, as well as timely and accurate mechanical engineering solutions for outage discovery work under the guidance of an experienced Engineer.
• Complete assigned Reliability Department Reports.
• Follow the program to maintain neat and orderly mechanical/fixed equipment engineering files.
• Provide fixed equipment engineering coverage during unit upsets and outages and ensure effective communication through accurate shift updates and shift turnover.
• Ensure appropriate regular updates are issued during shutdowns/startups, ongoing unit upsets and critical troubleshooting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees