This particular plant has changed hands a few times over the years, but has been owned by companies that have some of the best safety reputations in the business. This is a petrochemical manufacturing site that employs about 150 people – the location is about 90 minutes SW of Chicago, easily within range of two major airports and an easy trip to all that Chicago has to offer.
What You Will Be Doing:
The main focus of this position is equipment reliability. This particular role is about 70% strategic and 30% tactical – the strategic part is in the improvement of methods; analyzing data taken from equipment and building or modifying programming to prevent or predict unnecessary equipment failures and downtime. Daily/weekly responsibilities include:
Identification of ‘bad actors’ and developing plans to rectify issues using FMEA, RCFA, PMs and other reliability tools
Address MOCs, either as the lead engineer or as support to other maintenance/reliability personnel
Lead investigations into equipment/asset failure and provide recommendations for fixes and future prevention
Work related to planned outages and turnarounds – this could be either on the planning side or the execution side
Conduct factor acceptance testing (FAT) at vendor sites or validation of repair facilities
Development and execution of predictive and preventive maintenance programming and continuous improvement of those programs
Minimum Requirements:
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering preferred, other engineering disciplines are acceptable as well
3+ years of post-college, industry experience, out of chemicals, petrochemicals, or other heavy industry
Should have prior CMMS experience
Should have prior experience with preventive maintenance programming as well as predicative maintenance programming (oil analysis, infrared testing, vibration analysis, etc)
