Team Lead, Rotating Equipment Reliability

Chevron•Richmond, CA

7d•$120,300 - $237,800•Onsite

About The Position

The Rotating Equipment Reliability (RER) Team Lead is responsible for setting work priorities, coordinating day-to-day execution, and developing the capabilities of a team of Rotating Equipment Reliability Analysts. This role partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, and Turnaround/Projects organizations to improve the safety, availability, and lifecycle cost of critical rotating equipment across the refinery. The Team Lead drives consistent reliability practices, ensures high-quality technical work products, and leads continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen machinery performance and organizational effectiveness. Manages group and employee work to align with corporate/department objectives. Direct reports are typically individual contributors.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).
Demonstrated experience in rotating equipment reliability, maintenance, operations, machinery engineering, and/or facilities engineering within a complex process industry environment (e.g., refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, power).
Strong working knowledge of rotating equipment systems (pumps, compressors, turbines, motors, gearboxes, seals, bearings) and common failure modes.
Training and/or certification in vibration analysis and machinery diagnostics tools and programs such as Emerson 2140, Emerson AMS, Bently-Nevada System 1, Bently-Nevada 3500 installations, Windrock, ADRE etc.
Ability to analyze equipment health and performance data and communicate actionable recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
Proven ability to lead through influence and collaborate across disciplines to drive safe, effective outcomes.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to respond to emergent equipment issues, including periodic off-hours support.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience developing or improving rotating equipment asset strategies, preventive/predictive maintenance programs, and repair standards.
Experience supporting turnarounds, major maintenance events, or capital project execution/startups.
Vendor/shop quality assurance experience for rotating equipment repairs and overhauls.
Experience with reliability investigation methods (e.g., RCA, defect elimination) and translating findings into sustainable corrective actions.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of rotating equipment reliability professionals; set clear expectations, provide technical mentoring, and support effective decision-making.
Prioritize and coordinate team workload to address emergent equipment issues, planned reliability work, and partner with operations and routine maintenance on improving long term machinery reliability processes.
Provide leadership and technical oversight during troubleshooting of high-criticality rotating equipment outages, balancing safe restoration to service with long-term reliability solutions.
Drive high-quality machinery condition monitoring and diagnostics by reviewing surveillance results, performance trends, and follow-up action plans. Collaborate across the business to enable support teams to effectively execute surveillance and diagnostic workflows.
Ensure accurate, complete rotating equipment record-keeping (equipment history, repairs, failure events, and modifications) and promote strong learning loops across the organization.
Provide assurance for rotating equipment repairs and installations (e.g., repair scopes, shop/vendor quality, commissioning readiness). Manage contract business partners. Steward rotating equipment spare parts procurement and repairables.
Partner with Turnaround and Capital Projects teams to define rotating equipment scope, provide technical input, and support execution and startup.
Support and/or lead root cause failure analyses and formal investigations for repeat, rework or high-impact equipment failures.
Collaborate with peer sites and corporate/enterprise reliability communities to share best practices, standardize approaches, and accelerate learning.
Ensure consistent use of reliability tools and processes (e.g., equipment strategy optimization, bad-actor management, reliability investigations, and defect elimination).
Communicate progress, risks, and performance insights to stakeholders; deliver quarterly KPI reporting and use data to influence priorities and measure improvement.
Coordinate and participate in off-hours callout support for rotating equipment reliability issues as needed.