Manager, Reliability Engineering

CPChem•Orange, TX

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Chevron Phillips Chemical is seeking a Reliability Engineering Manager for its Southeast Texas Chemical Complex manufacturing Polyethylene facility in Orange, Texas. The position leads the site's reliability strategy to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of manufacturing assets. It provides leadership to reliability engineers and specialists and drives improvements in equipment performance, maintenance effectiveness, and asset availability. Working with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, and Capital Project teams, the manager identifies and prioritizes reliability improvement opportunities, develops long-term asset strategies, and leads initiatives to improve plant performance. The role covers failure analysis, root cause investigations, reliability-centered maintenance, risk reduction, and lifecycle cost optimization. It also supports capital investment decisions through reliability analysis, integration of reliability requirements into projects, and effective management of reliability resources. The manager champions safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and people development while strengthening site technical capabilities. Travel requirements are up to 10%. Relocation eligibility is available.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Proven track record managing a reliability schedule, planning, and cost control systems.
Ability to assess costs, schedules, and plans, and prepare cost, schedule, and plan forecasts.
Experience with SAP, scheduling, planning, and cost estimation.
Ability to manage tasks and reliability tasks at various stages of implementation.

Nice To Haves

Successfully held a small plant Reliability Supervisor/Lead position for a minimum of 3 years.
Detailed knowledge of mechanical standards as applied in the petrochemical industry and knowledge of codes such as API, ASME, ANSI, and NFPA.

Responsibilities

Develop people and manage direct reports.
Assist in site Reliability budget development and tracking.
Deploy complex reliability excellence activities and identify and prioritize reliability engineering value creation opportunities.
Ensure implementation of the strategic development of asset reliability-centered maintenance applications.
Develop equipment repair procedures and specifications to improve plant and equipment reliability while supporting EH&S policies and procedures.
Evaluate and provide recommendations for Project Management Optimization.
Direct equipment failure investigations and cause analysis into high-capex escalations, and implement action items to prevent recurrence using cause analysis tools.
Drive the organization to find true root causes and effective mitigations to systematically eliminate bad actors.
Lead integration of the reliability system into the Capital Project process and perform economic analysis of capital projects through lifecycle cost analysis.
Communicate capital investment and expense project ideas based on reliability analysis and feedback from Operations and other site personnel.
Manage the analysis of failure mechanisms and trends, implementing tools to monitor asset conditions and anticipate failures.