Rotating Reliability Engineer

Ashland Inc. • Hopewell, VA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Ashland Specialty Ingredients has an opportunity for a Rotating Reliability Engineer at its Hopewell, Virginia site. This visible role within the Maintenance function reports to the Maintenance Manager. The engineer owns rotating-equipment reliability strategies, leads condition-monitoring and predictive-maintenance programs, and drives defect elimination and reliability improvements. The role also partners with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, planners, technicians, and vendors to improve equipment performance, work quality, safety, and reliability.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of Rotating Reliability Engineering experience.
• Mechanical Engineering degree or technical degree.
• Vibration Category Level 3 certification.
• RCA training and coordination experience.
• Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior at all times.

Responsibilities

• Create and own reliability strategies for pumps, compressors, gearboxes, centrifuges, agitators, fans, blowers, and seals.
• Develop asset criticality assessments, repair-versus-replace recommendations, lifecycle plans, equipment standards, preferred designs, and application guidance.
• Lead vibration, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, oiling, and performance-monitoring programs; establish monitoring routes, alarm limits, collection frequencies, and escalation criteria.
• Review condition-monitoring findings, prioritize resulting actions, and match monitoring technologies to equipment failure modes.
• Lead or support root cause analyses for significant or repeated rotating-equipment failures; analyze failure history, repair records, vibration data, and operating conditions.
• Identify physical, human, and system causes of failures, develop sustainable countermeasures, track corrective actions, and verify their effectiveness.
• Maintain a ranked bad-actor equipment list using downtime, cost, frequency, risk, and production impact.
• Build business cases for reliability improvements and equipment upgrades; facilitate cross-functional improvement plans, quantify benefits, and define sustainment requirements.
• Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance tasks using failure modes and equipment history.
• Provide technical scope for inspections, repairs, overhauls, precision installation, alignment, and balancing; review repair quality, tolerance documentation, and post-maintenance acceptance data.
• Partner with planners, supervisors, technicians, and vendors on complex rotating-equipment work.
• Respond in the field to vibration, seal leakage, bearing temperature, lubrication, and performance issues; integrate process conditions and mechanical data in troubleshooting.
• Define safe operating limits, temporary controls, and escalation needs with appropriate stakeholders, and clearly communicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations.
• Define rotating-equipment inspection and overhaul scopes for outages and turnarounds; identify critical spares, special tools, vendor support, and quality checkpoints.
• Support equipment commissioning, startup readiness, and post-startup monitoring, and provide reliability input to capital projects, MOC reviews, design reviews, and PSSRs.
• Maintain equipment histories, failure coding, technical files, and reliability dashboards; track rotating-equipment KPIs and communicate trends, risks, and priorities.
• Develop technical standards, troubleshooting guides, and training for site personnel, and support spare-parts strategies and vendor performance reviews for critical equipment.
• Contribute to organizational goals through initiative, goal execution, and a focus on performance and safety.
• Build collaborative relationships, optimize diverse talent, and use positive communication and influence to improve organizational capacity and capabilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits starting on Day 1 for the employee and their family.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Industry-competitive salary and pay-for-performance incentive plans.
• Opportunities for development and advancement throughout the global organization.
• A diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued.

What This Job Offers

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