Mechanical Engineer
Full Time, Permanent
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
We're looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join the INEOS Acetyls team. We need highly motivated individuals who want to be part of our growing business. INEOS Acetyls is a global chemicals business producing acetic acid and a range of derivatives across Europe, Asia and America. We’re part of INEOS - one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world, employing around 26,000 people across 194 sites in 29 countries.
You will be based at the Hull site, which is the largest producer of acetic acid, acetic anhydride and ethyl acetate in Europe. The products we produce are essential building blocks used in almost every industry, including renewable power, automotive, pharmaceuticals, coatings and textiles.
Hull is also home to the business's global Technology Development and Support Team and is based on the 370-acre Saltend Chemicals Park - a cluster of world-class chemicals and renewable energy businesses at the heart of the UK's energy estuary.
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The opportunity
To provide Mechanical Engineering technical discipline to the Asset Teams to ensure the operation remains compliant to regulatory requirements and asset safety, reliability and efficiency annual plan and performance improvement targets are achieved. This includes responsibility for maintaining the asset and protective systems integrity, leadership of mechanical maintenance resources, technical support to day-to-day operations and development and implementation of short-to-medium term modifications, equipment replacement and maintenance strategies.
Our plants in Hull are top tier COMAH registered and the job holder has a key role in ensuring the assets are operated and maintained in line with the company’s and the regulator’s expectations on safety performance and operational integrity.
If you thrive on a challenge and are prepared to push yourself, then INEOS’ open and non-hierarchical approach to business will give you the opportunity to quickly develop your career. We value daily collaboration and teamwork, reaping the benefits of working on site/office based.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus plan
- Generous contributory pension
- Life assurance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays with option to buy extra annual leave and flex 5 of these bank holidays
- Ongoing career development
- Wide range of benefits including discounted private medical insurance, health cash plans and high street discounts
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Free on-site gym will launch soon in Hull
- Online health and fitness hub for employees, plus friends and family
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a wide range of support services including counselling, financial support, legal services – for employees and family.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Volunteering opportunities
Key accountabilities
- Ensure all critical assets and protective systems are identified and registered in the CMMS and ensure this list is kept up to date and formally reviewed every 5 years.
- Ensure planned schedules are in place in the CMMS for maintenance and testing of critical assets and protective systems.
- Ensure this schedule is delivered through the technician and contract maintenance resources via tracking of attainment and backlog and audit of schedule compliance.
- Analyse the results from maintenance activities and tests, document this and develop improvement plans for poor performing or degrading equipment.
- Development of forward mechanical maintenance and engineering plans and budgets.
- Responsible for providing requirements for the planning and execution of all mechanical work associated with the A5 TAR, POX Burner Change and other outages.
- Responsible for the development of CAPEX and maintenance budgets and execution of all work within agreed constraints.
- Identify plant mechanical vulnerabilities and end of life equipment, develop mitigation measures and input to asset development plans.
- Responsible for organising and providing technical support to all Mechanical contract specialist engineering services required for planned and emergent work.
- Provide assurance to the Asset Manager that the Mechanical systems operate in a safe and reliable manner.
- Ensure the Asset has in place, and implements, the necessary systems to provide assurance in all aspects of Mechanical Engineering.
- Act as the Design Approver for mechanical systems across A5 Syngas and Acetyls assets.
- Provide mechanical input into HAZOPs, LOPAs and Project safety reviews.
- Ensure critical assets are added to the Inspection management system within Site Meridium software.
- Under guidance of Site Mechanical Engineer, develop/update Mechanical Assurance Practices, Mechanical Safety Rules and Mechanical Safety Standing Orders.
- Ensure maintenance overdues are managed and are compliant with site safety systems. Owner of related safety management system for the asset.
- Management of Mechanical work and schedule. Ensure no mechanical ATEX, statutory or integrity mechanical inspections are overdue: including pipework, vessel, SV, PVSV, special application hoses, etc.
- Provide Technical review of all drawings new and existing for the asset including MOC and repair sheets.
- Reviews field data and results from maintenance activities and tests optimise PM workloads and tasks.
- Be the single point of reference for any salient Mechanical incidents on the A5 assets, disseminate the causes and highlight the lessons to be learnt to the relevant parties.
- Contacts outside of INEOS with various equipment manufacturer engineers, managers and technicians with regards to technical, procurement and service issues.
- Ensuring all Statutory Mechanical inspections are completed in accordance with Site or Regulatory standards.
- Ensuring compliance to the site Environment Permit, to ensure that all loss of primary containment is managed inline with the requirements of SSO307.
About you
We are looking for someone with a Degree in Mechanical engineering and proven industrial experience within the petrochemical sector or equivalent manufacturing sector. You will have in depth experience of petrochemical plant routine, preventative and breakdown mechanical maintenance practices along with experience of COMAH top tier chemical plant management, mechanical maintenance and development.
A thorough knowledge of mechanical working practices, procedures at theoretical and practical level as well as European legal and HSE requirements is also essential along with experience of planning, development and implementation of major TAR mechanical activities.
An understanding of maintenance strategies, integrity management principles and leak management processes and corrective measures is key. You will have excellent planning and budgetary management skills as well as commercial acumen for budgetary control and contract ownership. The ability to build effective working relationships is an important element to this role, therefore excellent communication skills are also essential. Strong leadership qualities and the ability to build efficient teams and motivate staff is important along with the ability to balance conflicting demands in a continuously developing environment.