Rotating Equipment Engineer
About The Position
The Rotating Equipment Engineer will develop long-term strategies for plant rotating equipment, including pumps, turbines, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, and hydraulic valve systems. This role involves building asset maintenance strategies, maintaining ITPM plans per RAGAGEP, and updating engineering specifications. The engineer will analyze potential rerates and upgrades to enhance throughput and reliability, and provide recommendations for critical equipment such as GE Frame 5, Turbo Generators, and positive displacement compressors. Responsibilities also include applying life cycle value analysis to repair/replace decisions, guiding spare part strategies, and providing input to maintenance on equipment repairs. The role requires leading troubleshooting efforts with operations and other engineering functions, conducting equipment performance testing, and delivering turnaround recommendations and planning input for critical machinery. Additionally, the engineer will support capital projects by providing expertise in rotating equipment during design reviews and construction, documenting savings from reliability improvements, leading commercial partnerships with suppliers, and conducting FMEA studies to improve onstream availability. The position also involves documenting failure root causes, monitoring KPIs for proactive issue resolution, participating in the management of change process, and interacting with other departments to complete assignments while promoting a safe work environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in engineering (required)
- Good communication skills, written and verbal
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in rotating equipment in petrochemical industry.
- Vibration certification or 7+ yrs of experience in vibrational analysis
Nice To Haves
- Experience in AMS Machinery Health and Bently Nevada monitoring systems
- Lubrication knowledge or certification
- Understanding of basic industry standards, recommended practices and/or regulatory conditions/considerations for rotating equipment
- Knowledge and understanding of reliability-centered maintenance practices
- Knowledge and understanding of RAGAGEP engineering practices and principles
- Knowledge and understanding of predictive technologies, such as vibration analysis, infrared thermograph, lubrication analysis, ultrasound, etc.
- Maximo basic knowledge or alternate computerized maintenance management system (SAP)
Responsibilities
- Develop long term strategies for plant rotating equipment including pumps, turbines, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, hydraulic valve systems.
- Build asset maintenance strategies and maintain ITPM plans per RAGAGEP
- Update and maintain engineering specifications for rotating equipment
- Analyze possible rerates and upgrades to improve through put and reliability of critical equipment trains.
- Provide recommended upgrades for critical equipment such as GE Frame 5, Turbo Generator and critical positive displacement compressors
- Apply life cycle value analysis on repair/replace decisions
- Provide guidance in equipment criticality with establishment of spare part strategies
- Provide input to maintenance on repairs of rotating equipment.
- Lead troubleshooting with operations, process engineering and other functional engineers for machinery
- Ability to complete equipment performance testing to predicted curves
- Deliver TA recommendations and planning input for critical machinery
- Support capital projects by providing expertise in the area of rotating equipment in design reviews and construction
- Document savings benefits of implemented reliability improvement modifications and upgrades.
- Lead commercial partnerships with key suppliers and vendors (i.e. – Seals contract)
- Provide input to reliability improvement teams and conduct FMEA studies to improve onstream availability.
- Document root causes of rotating equipment failures
- Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and metrics for proactive identification and resolution of reliability issues.
- Participate in the management of change process
- Ability to interact with other departments to complete daily assignments.
- Personal attitude and behavior that promotes a safe work environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
