Reliability Engineer

WhiteWater Midstream•Houston, TX

22h•Onsite

About The Position

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for the reliability of turbine engines, internal combustion engines, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, coolers, exchangers, glycol dehydrators, pressure safety valves, and pumps within WhiteWater assets. The position is based in Austin or Houston, Texas, and is an in-office role with occasional travel, including overnight visits to compressor stations. The engineer improves physical asset performance and maintenance and reliability practices through asset criticality assessments, maintenance strategies, key performance indicators, failure analysis, and lifecycle management. The role works with operations leadership, engineering teams, corporate functions, external partners, contractors, and local site teams. It also supports capital projects, commissioning, CMMS data and processes, cross-site initiatives, and compliance with the Long-Term Service Agreement. The employee is expected to follow safety and environmental requirements and may work overtime, weekends, holidays, and respond to call-outs and emergencies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
At least 5 years of engineering experience.
Willingness to travel approximately 10–25% of the time.
Practical knowledge of relevant industry codes, such as API and ASME, and application of Non-Destructive Testing methodologies.
Solid understanding of predictive and preventative maintenance programs.
Ability to mentor, train, facilitate, and influence others in the use of reliability tools and systems.
Experience with Mechanical Integrity and Process Safety Management Programs.
Practical understanding of inventory management.
Ability to solve problems effectively and manage multiple priorities and programs.
CMMS experience.
Valid driver’s license and ability to meet company insurability requirements.
Ability to work overtime, weekends, and holidays, and respond to call-outs and emergencies.
Ability to read and interpret charts, assembly manuals, and instruction manuals.
Ability to work in changing climate conditions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and fluency in English.
Ability to lift, push, and pull a minimum of 75 lbs., work in tight spaces, and climb to and work from elevated platforms, ladders, and walkways.

Nice To Haves

At least 3 years of asset reliability engineering experience.
Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional accreditation.
Knowledge of maintenance best practices in the chemical industry.
Experience with rotating equipment, such as pumps and compressors.
Reliability program implementation and oversight experience.

Responsibilities

Improve physical asset performance and establish strategies to enhance maintenance and reliability performance using KPIs.
Collaborate with Operations leadership, engineering teams, corporate functions, external partners, and contractors.
Provide reliability and maintenance expertise on capital projects to support equipment reliability and maintainability.
Support Installation Qualification during commissioning and validate updates to equipment strategies and specifications in the CMMS database as needed.
Lead cross-site reliability initiatives to standardize processes and drive improvements across multiple locations.
Assist local teams in identifying, collecting, analyzing, and managing data to reduce failures and improve performance.
Mentor and train junior engineers and field personnel on reliability methodologies and tools.
Create and implement site reliability strategies, including Asset Criticality Assessments, proactive maintenance strategies, and spare-parts analyses.
Develop and monitor corporate-level KPIs, dashboards, and reporting systems for asset performance.
Align preventive and predictive maintenance tasks with asset criticality.
Conduct and facilitate Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for significant or recurring failures and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
Promote best practices in CMMS utilization, including accurate maintenance procedures and asset master data, hierarchy, and configuration.
Analyze CMMS data to improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs, while providing site managers visibility into performance metrics.
Drive effective maintenance workflow processes, including work requests, authorization, planning, kitting, scheduling, execution, and documentation and closure.
Benchmark asset reliability performance and collaborate with local teams to determine best practices.
Oversee lifecycle management for critical corporate physical assets, focusing on Total Cost of Ownership and long-term performance optimization.
Develop tools to identify recurring mechanical issues and collaborate with field operations to resolve them.
Manage the maintenance program to support Company compliance with the Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA).
Provide preliminary work scopes, estimates, and budgeting details for assigned projects or work items.
Plan, schedule, and manage multiple capital and operational projects concurrently.
Comply with safety and environmental practices under regulatory and company requirements; attend safety training, maintain required certifications, demonstrate high safety standards, and assist with regulatory inspections.
Travel to other compressor stations as required, including occasional overnight visits.