Maintenance Engineer
About The Position
The Maintenance Engineer provides mechanical technical support for maintenance and reliability activities, provides design concepts, and manages maintenance focused initiatives. They are responsible for near-term and long-term maintenance support on fixed equipment, rotating equipment, I&E, and piping systems. The Maintenance Engineer also develops and leads maintenance projects and initiatives. The Maintenance Engineer ensures the reliability, safety, and efficiency of industrial machinery, facilities, and systems by assisting in the development of preventive maintenance plans, routine inspections, troubleshooting malfunctions, and executing repairs. They help ensure compliance with safety regulations to minimize operational downtime.
Requirements
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
- Proven ability to provide mechanical engineering support for capital & maintenance projects
- Familiarity with applicable health and safety regulations
- Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite of products.
- BS Mechanical Engineering degree
- A minimum of 3 years of mechanical engineering operations support experience in petrochemical, refining, and/or renewable fuels processing.
- Experience with industry standard project management practices.
Responsibilities
- Supports day-to-day performance of equipment to ensure safe operations and that, regulatory, commercial, and logistical requirements are met.
- Diagnoses, repairs, and supports testing of mechanical, electrical, rotating equipment, and hydraulic issues.
- Leads mechanical field changes and through the MOC (management of change) process for capital and maintenance projects.
- Provides engineering support for equipment and piping changes.
- Improves fixed and rotating equipment asset availability, criticality assessment, PM development, and utilization.
- Identify opportunities for improvement (proactively and reactively).
- Inspect field equipment installations according to the design and fabricator’s specifications during unit outages and upgrades.
- Work with process engineering, maintenance, and operations personnel to troubleshoot failures and provide feedback on RCA’s (root cause analysis) reports.
- Work with vendors, licensors, and contractors to support debottlenecking, optimization, and troubleshooting as needed to maintain safe and reliable operations.
- Provide support during unit commissioning, startups and shutdowns.
- Daily interaction and communication with maintenance supervisors and the reliability team as well as maintenance and operations staff.
- Provide after-hours support when appropriate – emergency call out, etc.
- Help develop justification and work scope for T/A and maintenance.
- Support T/A with potential extended work schedules and/or night shifts as appropriate
- Lead and manage small to medium reliability initiatives.
- Lead and participate in the MOC process and participate in hazard reviews (What-Ifs, HAZOPs) and troubleshooting.
- Lead and/or support investigations for mechanical related near misses and incidents.
- Maintain current work lists with priorities
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
