Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer

Koch • Dodge City, KS

18h • Onsite

About The Position

Koch Fertilizer is seeking a Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer to join its Dodge City, Kansas team. The role advances equipment reliability and operational excellence across the site by identifying opportunities, troubleshooting issues, and improving asset performance using technical expertise and Principle Based Management (PBM®).

The engineer works with the maintenance and reliability team, operations, and fleetwide subject matter experts to improve equipment performance, reduce failures, and support continuous improvement. Responsibilities include leading reliability projects, providing expertise on new and upgraded assets, monitoring equipment performance, investigating root causes, and supporting maintenance outages and turnarounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering field, or at least 5 years of maintenance experience in an industrial environment.
• Experience troubleshooting and maintaining rotating equipment.
• Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
• Ability to bend, kneel, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to climb straight ladders; some work may require working at heights exceeding 100 feet.
• Ability to wear industrial chemical plant uniforms and required personal protective equipment (PPE).

Nice To Haves

• Reliability engineering experience in a nitrogen fertilizer production facility.
• Machinery Lubrication Analyst (MLA) Level 2 Certification.
• ISO Category II Vibration Analyst Certification.
• Experience working with Mechanical Integrity Programs.
• Experience in industrial chemical manufacturing.
• Experience with Maximo or similar CMMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Model and advance Koch’s Principle Based Management (PBM®) culture through daily actions and decision-making.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues related to rotating equipment.
• Lead reliability projects from problem identification through design, implementation, and commissioning.
• Provide reliability expertise during the design and implementation of new and upgraded assets.
• Monitor rotating equipment performance to predict and prevent failures, including by leveraging emerging wireless technologies.
• Develop and implement strategies to improve plant reliability and equipment performance.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) investigations and ensure effective implementation of corrective actions and lessons learned.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams and fleetwide machinery experts to eliminate recurring failures.
• Develop and oversee scopes of work for maintenance outages and turnarounds, ensuring quality execution (QA/QC).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) coverage, and disability coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Paid vacation and time off.
• Educational assistance.
• May include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance, subject to eligibility and benefit-plan terms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level