Reliability and Asset Integrity Engineer Job

Position Summary:

As an Reliability and Asset Integrity Engineer you will work with other professionals to identify, evaluate and manage asset reliability risks in order to improve production facilities, reduce incidents of costly breakdowns and develop strategies to improve overall reliability and safety of plant, personnel and production processes. Maintenance best practices and asset management strategies will be employed to continuously improve our current Maintenance and Reliability Program.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation of reliability concepts including development of Root Cause Analysis, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance technologies and Preventive Maintenance development in order to achieve high levels of availability of plants assets
• Participate in managing the mechanical integrity Program  (tanks, pressure vessels, over pressure devices  and piping system)
• Develop and maintain equipment hierarchy and asset identification of field equipment, spare equipment inventory, critical equipment for Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Support in Managing Mechanical Integrity inspection contractors and coordinate 3rd party contractors for Condition monitoring and Reliability needs
• Manage, review and develop P&ID’s for all  North America plants
• Identify and manage fixed /rotating equipment bad actors list, lead failure analysis on equipment and recommend corrective or preventive measures
• Development of equipment specific strategies (including lubrications, conditions monitoring, and preventive maintenance)
• Evaluate and develop engineering solutions to eliminate repetitive failures and other problems that adversely impact plant operations
• Perform financial analysis on plant equipment to determine total cost of ownership and identify savings opportunities
• Participate or lead in designing, developing installation specifications, and commissioning plans for new equipment
• Develop Critical Spares program with maintenance department in alignment with the business needs of all the North American sites.
• Provide technical and engineering support and troubleshooting Support to maintenance and production.
• Participate in expanding the MI and Reliability Program to other North American Plants
• Manage and Develop KPI’s for the maintenance and reliability department 
• Other duties as assigned
• Some travel required.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required , preferred Mechanical or chemical Engineer
• 2-5 years’ experience working in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) in a process manufacturing plant, required.
• Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), required
• Experience with finance and/or accounting principles, preferred

Skills and Competencies:

• Proficiency with MS Office,  including Project required
• Extremely organized, self-directed, ability to multi-task and document practices on a routine basis, as well as interface and communicate effectively with all departments in a manufacturing setting, required
• Experience with Chemical and Mechanical systems in a manufacturing environment, including  Piping, Fluid Mechanics, Pump Mechanics, Electrical Systems and design, required
• Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written, required
• Experience with Advanced Predictive Maintenance technologies, required
• Experience with Mechanical Integrity Program (Tanks ,over pressure devices , pressure vessels and , Piping System )