Lead Reliability Engineer
About The Position
This position serves as both the site’s Lead Reliability Engineer and the Area Leader for Utilities & Solvent Recovery, providing technical leadership and organizational direction to a team consisting of engineers, maintenance coordinators, supervisors and hourly technicians. This role has overall accountability for the safe, reliable, efficient, and compliant operation of critical site utility systems, including boilers, compressed air systems, chillers, cooling towers, HVAC systems, and associated utility infrastructure, as well as the site’s solvent recovery operations. The role partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, HSE, and other functional leaders to ensure the site’s critical infrastructure supports production requirements while minimizing unplanned downtime, energy consumption, environmental impact, and operating cost. Management of the solvent recovery area includes ensuring regulatory compliance with a number of pollution control units and their associated emissions management.
Requirements
- Technical leadership and organizational direction to a team consisting of engineers, maintenance coordinators, supervisors and hourly technicians.
- Overall accountability for the safe, reliable, efficient, and compliant operation of critical site utility systems, including boilers, compressed air systems, chillers, cooling towers, HVAC systems, and associated utility infrastructure, as well as the site’s solvent recovery operations.
- Partnering closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, HSE, and other functional leaders to ensure the site’s critical infrastructure supports production requirements while minimizing unplanned downtime, energy consumption, environmental impact, and operating cost.
- Management of the solvent recovery area includes ensuring regulatory compliance with a number of pollution control units and their associated emissions management.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and maintain reliability strategies for critical production and utility assets.
- Identify bad actors and recurring equipment failures and develop sustainable corrective actions.
- Utilize reliability data, failure history, downtime information, and maintenance metrics to identify improvement opportunities and ensure utilities equipment is properly maintained to avoid production downtime
- Provide engineering support for equipment modifications, replacements, upgrades, and capital projects.
- Serve as the overall Area Leader for the Utilities & Solvent Recovery department
- Provide leadership, direction, and accountability for the Maintenance Coordinator, area Supervisor, and Process Engineer supporting the area.
- Provide technical and leadership oversight for the site’s utility infrastructure and emission controls devices and equipment, including off-hour support (by phone or in person as needed) to ensure avoidance or minimization of production losses associated with equipment and process failures
- Coordinate daily between site Operations, Maintenance, Engineering and HSE to ensure alignment and action on priorities and threats
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
