Sr Reliability Specialist - Rotating Equipment

at  Delek US

Are you looking for a career in a dynamic and innovative company that values versatility, growth, and teamwork? Look no further than Delek US Holdings!

DELEK BENEFITS

We offer fantastic benefits that include up to a 10% match on 401K on your hire start, with a vesting timeline of only one year, along with medical benefits that start on day one with a 30% premium rebate annually! We value your well-being and all employees now have access to the Calm app for FREE, which is used for meditation, stress management, and better sleep. Through our performance management program, you can earn additional annual incentives as you set and achieve goals. Our pay for performance culture motivates our employees to improve Delek’s year-over-year company, business unit, and individual results. With some of the highest bonus payouts in recent years, we know that our success is due to our talented and dedicated team. We are looking for individuals like you to help us continue this momentum and bring new ideas to the table. At Delek, you will have the opportunity to make an impact and grow your career in a supportive and innovative environment.
Job Summary:
The Sr. Reliability Specialist will report to the Sr. Manager, Reliability and will be responsible for providing technical guidance on rotating equipment within the refinery that maintains and improves the safety, environmental, and reliability performance of the assets. The Sr. Reliability Specialist will demonstrate accountability for increasing rotating equipment reliability by improving time between failures while reducing equipment downtime and maintenance costs. This role works collaboratively with the entire refining organization to develop, implement, and maintain Delek’s Engineering Practices and applicable RAGAGEP standards. This role develops strategies to manage refinery assets at peak performance, optimize lifetime return on investment, mitigate reliability risk, and supports capital improvements in support of long term sustainable performance; and champion the troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, planning and budgeting for rotating equipment including large steam turbines, large centrifugal compressors, rotary screw compressors, reciprocating compressors, positive displacement pumps, gearboxes, and turbomachinery auxiliary systems.

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for sustaining and continuously improving various mechanical components for equipment and tools. Ensures the safe, effective operations of the organization’s production and supports continuous improvement. Manages reliability engineering projects. Performs analytical verification. Evaluates, tests and tracks results of reliability interventions. Initiates reporting for internal or third-party reported incidents. Creates, documents and follows up on corrective actions. Prepares routine reports and memos and coordinate communications across all necessary functional groups of the organization.
While this job description aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the role, it may not detail every task or responsibility required.
All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, and vision of the organization. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. All activities must be in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, ERISA, and other regulations, as appropriate

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 4 year / Bachelor’s Degree (Required)
• Master’s Degree (Preferred)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Four (4) or more years Experience in a related field (Required)
• No Licensure or Certification Required.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Provide engineering technical support to operating units, environmental activities, and plant projects to improve reliability, process safety and environmental performance
• Support process safety, safety, and environmental compliance by participating in process hazard analysis, incident investigations, procedure development, management of change, alarm management, pressure protection management, and providing technical assistance for work scope development, and assessment of operating impacts on equipment.
• Design improvements for equipment/systems to improve overall reliability, availability, and predictability of production, improve process safety and environmental performance including complex designs
• Provide process support to Plant Engineering activities, usually involving preparation of major appropriation requests or execution of detailed engineering of projects
• Perform equipment reliability analysis and recommends improvements based on Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) findings
• Establish critical equipment sparing strategy
• Recommend equipment reliability improvements though analysis of equipment trends, historical, and field data
• Develop, implement, and lead reliability principles, precision maintenance, and condition monitoring initiatives
• Analyzes refineries’ maintenance and reliability work practices to identify performance drivers. Works collaboratively with refineries’ maintenance leadership on design/reengineering of existing work processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness within established technical standards.
• Works with all relevant departments to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations adhering to the life cycle asset management process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues.
• Support turnaround and unit shutdown planning and execution through participation in scope development, providing justification for work items, and providing technical support during shutdown/startup and outage timeframe
• Coordinate and assist in implementation of plant system changes, including equipment additions, modifications and/or deletions and process design
• Develops and delivers site training to educate, inform and guide refinery maintenance staffs on application of technical standards. Ensures standards reflect both engineering and work processes and supported by industry best practices.
• Provide input into capital projects to ensure the scope meets the objectives of operational reliability
• Specify appropriate Preventive Maintenance (PM’s) / Predictive Maintenance (PdM’s) based on Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Develops refining technical standards for maintenance and mechanical engineering
• Conducts gap assessments primarily through periodic audits to gauge effectiveness of maintenance and reliability work processes. Identifies internal barriers to implementation and works with refineries’ staffs on resolution
• Other duties as assigned

• Our refineries in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana have a combined crude capacity of 302,000 barrels per day
• Our logistics business currently owns and operates 720 miles of crude and product pipelines, a 600-mile crude oil gathering system, and storage tanks and terminals.
• Our Retail or convenience store part of Delek, runs over 250 stores in Texas and New Mexico. We also have company-branded New-to-Industry DK stores in the southern part of the US!
• Our three renewables’ plants in Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi combined can produce 40 million gallons of biodiesel fuel a year