Reliability Engineer - 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:
We are hiring for the position of Reliability Engineer - Rotating Equipment located at the El Dorado, AR Refinery.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 spare strategy
• Recommend equipment reliability improvements by doing 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
• Manage the mechanical integrity and quality assurance portion of Process Safety Management (PSM) program
• 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 and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
• Stays abreast of latest industry best practices, technology and equipment design through participation in professional organizations and associations
• Conduct RCFA on failed equipment / components and improves life expectancy using RCFA findings
• Supports maintenance related activities in planning upcoming shutdowns, transitions and equipment requirements
• 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
• Communicate and document process engineering activities in unit support, design, plant engineering, environmental and process safety support activities with little or no review required
• 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
• In alignment with reliability effort 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)
• Actively interfaces with engineers and field supervision on troubleshooting, root cause failure analysis and optimization of maintenance predictive and preventive programs
• 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering discipline or military equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in equipment reliability and mechanical integrity including fixed equipment
• Working knowledge of industry safety, design, and inspection standards and procedures
• Demonstrated technical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills
• Working knowledge of reliability centered maintenance and reliability modeling concepts (Design Standards, RCFA, Maintenance Strategies)
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, diagrams, and sketches
• Proficient with engineering software
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Ability to interact effectively and positively with all levels of Company personnel, customers, vendors and visitors
• Ability to work as self-directed individual and in a team environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to organize and direct the activities of the power distribution work activities and coordinate such activities with operations and maintenance departments
• Demonstrated organizational skills and an ability to manage multiple projects and tasks in an effective manner
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and sound engineering principles
• Proficient computer skills, specifically with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

ROLE SUMMARY

The Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing technical guidance on operating units and equipment within a refinery that maintains and improves the safety, environmental standards, overall reliability, and operating cost of the refinery. The reliability engineer will demonstrate accountability for increasing equipment reliability by improving time between failures of industrial equipment while reducing equipment downtime and manufacturing costs. This role works collaboratively with the entire refining organization to develop, implement and maintain standard mechanical processes incorporating industry best practices. The Reliability Engineer creates refining maintenance technical standards and standardized work practices in collaboration with subject matter experts. 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.
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We are a boutique-sized diversified downstream energy company with a range of assets, including petroleum refining, logistics, renewable fuels, and convenience store retailing.

• 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