Company:
INEOS OligomersJob title
Reliability Engineer
Location
Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, TX - USA
Closing date
May 15th, 2023
Organizational context and job purpose
Organizational Context:
With LAO manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO).
LAO is used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant.
As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers invested $500 million in a new world scale LAO & PAO production facility to be located on INEOS Olefins & Polymers site in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas.
INEOS Oligomers is hiring a Reliability Engineer that will report to the Reliability Supervisor.
Purpose of the job:
The Reliability Engineer maintains and improves the safe operation, reliability, and availability of rotating equipment and fixed equipment throughout the site by the use of predictive and preventive maintenance programs, troubleshooting equipment problems, and ensuring equipment is properly overhauled and repaired and by using sound mechanical judgment.
The main goals of the Engineer are to safely maximize unit availability and minimize fixed costs associated with repairs and improvements. This is accomplished by a combination of problem prevention and problem resolution techniques. Problem preventions techniques would include support of rotating equipment reliability plans such as proper startup and shutdown procedures, development of operating envelopes, defining condition monitoring tasks and resolving equipment vibration condition monitoring signatures and oil analysis results with corrective recommendations.
Problem resolution techniques would include identification and resolution of repeat failures (either RCFAs or field troubleshooting), development of repair scopes, equipment upgrade scopes and quality assurance verifications of equipment repairs and installations. The Engineer would work closely with the Reliability, Maintenance Operations and Capital Groups related to rotating equipment including development and review of bid packages, review of vendor design information including rotor dynamics, bearing stiffness, etc.,. approval of repair scopes and methods as well as installation guidelines and witness points. As a technical resource, the Reliability Engineer would be expected to be able to champion the implementation of any recommended upgrades and/or equipment improvements.
As a Responsible Care company, we encourage our employees to embrace the principles of Responsible Care® by actively practicing them, promoting awareness of Responsible Care® and encouraging others to commit to these principles. Responsible Care® is the chemistry industry's commitment to sustainability - the betterment of society, the environment, and the economy. Its ethic and principles compel us to innovate for safer and more environmentally friendly products and processes, and to work cooperatively to identify and eliminate harm throughout the entire life cycle of their products.
This position has accountability, in keeping with the INEOS Responsible Care principles and ethics, for all aspects of the operation of the Plant, including safety/environment, people management, cost control, quality, production planning, project and process follow-up.
Environment/Context:
Internal factors:
Safety performance, specifically shop and field execution safety performance
Plant Reliability & Availability
Maintenance organizational capabilities, knowledge base and know-how of maintenance technicians and planners.
External factors:
HSE compliance
Vendor support and know-how
Responsibilities AND Accountabilities
Major responsibilities for the Reliability Engineer include but are not limited to the following:
Accountability 1: SHE Stewardship
The position is accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles. Additionally, this position has a special responsibility to cascade the understanding of these principles throughout their work group.
Leads by example and ensures work group is in compliance with CBW SHE policies and procedures.
Leads the work group’s efforts in promoting and demonstrating safe behaviors through personal and team participation in SHE activities including incident investigations, HAZOP's, audits, observations, housekeeping and in reviewing team and others' safety incidents and near misses.
Ensure SHE delivery, compliance and self-verification processes for departmental maintenance activities.
Develop job plans that are logically sequenced for safe and efficient for work execution. Key plan elements include:
required skill crafts and duration
required tools and equipment
optimal scheduling logic between operations
requisition for necessary parts and materials
task lists for repetitive jobs
accurate Bills of Material (BOM's) where appropriate
special instructions and required documentation such as QA/QC needs, piping schematics, safety such as hazard identification and mitigation as well as environmental compliance directives as applying to the specific work activities.
Accountability 2: Engineering Duties
Responsibility for specific unusual maintenance budget projects as applicable, include developing project scope, design, bid specifications and budget estimates.
Involvement with awarding the bid and assisting with the field execution of the project.
Coordination of safety kick-off meetings, Job safety analysis (JSA) reviews, schedule development and coordination of the project with other site resources.
Assist the development of maintenance project cost estimates involving rotating equipment for annual and monthly budget processes.
Interact daily with maintenance supervision, maintenance resource teams, and maintenance supervisors, in addition Operations Unit Engineers, Operations Shift Supervisors and the Site Reliability Groups.
Support Capital projects by providing input into initial scope reviews, project package IFA reviews and assisting with field execution. This includes working knowledge of applicable industry standards and codes relating to fixed and rotating equipment including API, NFPA, ANSI, etc.,.
Develop work scopes and bid packages for unusual maintenance projects by working with Procurement to obtain quotes/bids and contractor selection; work closely with Job Reps on field execution.
Coordinate completion of assigned HAZOP and incident investigation action items.
Participate as required in area Reliability Teams’ meetings to endure Top 10 Reliability lists identification and management: complete as necessary assigned unit reliability top ten list items. Requires strong fixed and rotating equipment troubleshooting skills across various types of industrial equipment including pumps/reciprocating compressors, fans/blowers, etc., and their components including various types of bearing, couplings mechanical seals, etc.,.
Preparation of plans and schedules for TAR events; Coordinate efforts with site scheduling team to build Maintenance schedule with all operations, maintenance and project tasks.
Ensure all capital spares for rotating and fixed equipment are repaired/replaced and put back in stores
For Root Cause Analyses (RCA) that have been assigned for the purpose of improving reliability, ensure they have been completed in a timely manner, that management approval has been received, and the action items have been documented into Traction with the date of completion
Update, correct and maintain equipment files. Ensure new equipment file has information needed for maintenance and makes recommendations on stores stock parts.
Skills Required
Level of education & Experience in general
Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required. Mechanical Engineering degree is preferred.
Minimum 6 years’ experience at a manufacturing site with in rotating and fixed equipment in a refining or chemical manufacturing facility. Should be experienced with vessels, piping, heat exchangers, pumps, reciprocating compressors, screw compressors, fans, gearboxes and associated items such as seals, couplings, bearings, etc.
Should be experienced with pumps, reciprocating compressors, screw compressors, fans, gearboxes and associated items such as seals, couplings, bearings, etc.
Experience in an integrated chemical processing plant is preferred.
Must be able to acquire a TWIC card
ADA Physical requirements, visual acuity requirements and environmental conditions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to lift at least 50lbs, walking, climbing ladders/stairs, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling. Must be able to perform climbing, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling and manual operation of various size valves and equipment.
The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.
Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance.On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.