Ideal Candidate:

2+ to 5 years of experience
Management Experience Required – Yes
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

Purpose of the Job

Supervise maintenance activities directly or through subordinates, as necessary, to accomplish objectives in the most safe, economical and technically feasible fashion.

Continually monitor and modify departmental goals to insure compatibility with corporate goals and objectives.  Direct all reliability engineering, scheduling and maintenance activities in such a manner that corporate goals are attained in both the short and long-term.

Principal Responsibilities

Insure that all maintenance activities are performed in a safe manner. Support and adhere to the principles of the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care(r), OSHA VPP and EPA Performance Track initiatives by protecting the environment, health, safety and security of our employees, contractors, carriers, distributors, visitors, customers and neighbors.

 Review, monitor and modify maintenance methods, practices, systems and organization to maximize contribution to profitability.

Review, monitor and take the necessary action to make the people in the department capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Provide an example of leadership that is consistent with the common objectives and values throughout the organization.

Provide an atmosphere that allows each individual in the department and the department itself to grow and develop as needs and opportunities change.

 Establish and maintain a communication system that ensures employees are aware of business objectives and conditions and allows each team member to know what is needed from others – and make sure that others know what is expected of them.

 Establish the performance standards for reliability engineering and maintenance utilizing KPI’s, develop the method of measurement and provide timely and routine feedback to those responsible for the performance.

 Maintain open and frequent communications with the customers of Maintenance to insure they are satisfied with the service.

 Exercise financial planning and control for the maintenance cost by generating annual budgets, controlling labor and materials usage, maximizing overall productivity and reviewing variances to budget on a monthly basis in order to provide maintenance service at the lowest possible total cost.

Ensure that ongoing proficiency training is conducted to improve skills and to keep current with technology.  Ensure that adequate funding and staffing are requested to meet maintenance requirements.

 Troubleshoot quality and process problems in collaboration with production engineers, process engineers, quality engineers, and others to ensure that all aspects of equipment operation and maintenance are managed.

Nature and Scope -

-         Work environment (extent of interaction with Supervisor(s) for approval, concurrence, resolution, etc.):

Approve expense expenditures, determine appropriate discipline in concert with HR and administer as required, improve work practices, and allocation of approved resources.  Careful planning, forecasting and scheduling is required to minimize interruptions to operations, which could cause considerable loss of production, time and cost.

-         Business environment (economic or technological conditions dealt with on a regular basis):

-         Must increase departmental effectiveness when essential resources are delayed or denied; limited budget.

-         The process problems include dealing with the technical difficulties of corrosive and hazardous chemicals and operating temperatures up to 2400°F.

  -         Internal and external relationships (nature and frequency):

 Inside:  Other departments routinely e.g., Production, Purchasing, Human Resources, Accounting, Purchasing, Project Engineering, Technical Service Center.

Outside:  Consultants for training, engineering, and organizational development; government organizations for inspections; contractors for maintenance services.

 Supervises 8 to 10 PMU and 10-15 through other direct reports

Knowledge and Experience

Engineering degree in Mechanical, Chemical or Industrial.  Science or Business degrees may be considered depending on associated experience.  Working knowledge of functions and design of plant equipment, process and products; methods development and procedures; industrial and personnel administration; labor relations; repair maintenance of machinery and equipment; ability to prepare, administer, and monitor departmental budgets.  

3 to 9 years technical experience in Chemical industry and strong exposure to maintenance principles and practices.  The candidate will have demonstrated success in positions of increasing supervisory responsibilities.

Location: Michigan - Grand Rapids

Ideal Candidate:

10+ to 15 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

This position will lead the development of electric motor solutions through in-house design and development and through external customers.

Provide technical leadership and oversight for new product development of ac and dc motors.

The person will plan concurrent development programs for several motors, including in-house and external development.

Manage and control requirements using a requirements management tool such as DOORS.

Perform mechanical, electrical and magnetic design and analysis using engineering CAD tools to meet function, performance and environmental requirements.

Develop motor design specifications, verification specifications and test equipment specifications.

Apply engineering processes and standards throughout the development process.

Work with multi-disciplinary development teams including offshore resources.

Manage assigned projects to schedule and budget.

- Provide technical oversight to suppliers and offshore resources.

- Develop fractional horse-power to 30+ horse-power brushed and brushless dc motors, permanent magnet synchronous machines, ac induction and switched reluctance motors depending upon requirements of the application.

- Lead cost-out efforts. Manage full cycle development of motors from requirements through qualification and in-service support.

Job Qualifications/Educational Requirements:

- Qualified candidates will have a BS in Mechanical Engineering or BSEE.

- MSME or MSEE preferred with minimum of 10 years experience in designing and developing motors.

- Qualifications in related technical disciplines such as physics will also be considered.

Candidates will have hands-on domain expertise in at least 5 of the following:

- Brushed dc motor design

- Brushless dc motor design

- AC induction motor design

- AC switched reluctance motor design

- Permanent magnet synchronous machine design

- Supplier development

- Mechanical design for motors including thermal and stress analysis

- Design to cost

- GD&T

- Verification and Qualification testing

Experience in 5 of the following:

Brushed dc motor design

Brushless dc motor design

AC induction motor design

AC switched reluctance motor design

Permanent magnet synchronous machine design

Supplier development

Mechanical design for motors including thermal and stress analysis

Design to cost

GD&T

The Ideal Candidate

5+ to 7 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

The Reliability Engineer job position is in the Reliability Services group in the Engineering & Services Department at the Longview site.   Personnel in this job position perform work in a variety of areas including: 

(1) performing reliability studies or reliability modeling on specific plant equipment or larger systems to identify and recommend projects to improve plant reliability and reduce conversion cost

(2) providing reliability and maintenance input to capital project design

(3) providing technical support to operating and maintenance departments to support on-going plant operations

(4) data mining and data analysis to identify projects to improve plant reliability and reduce conversion cost.   Individuals in this role will utilize a broad range of mechanical engineering, reliability engineering, project leadership and problem solving skills to perform the Reliability Engineer job.

Job Responsibilities:

-Support operations and maintenance during on-going plant operations including troubleshooting, equipment repairs, and support during major turnarounds

-Provide input into capital project scope and detailed engineering to insure reliable plant design, production at target rates, and low life cycle costs,

-Perform analysis of production loss and equipment failure data using statistical analysis tools and recommend projects to improve reliability

-Lead, facilitate, or participate in root cause analyses of process upsets and equipment failures to identify corrective actions to prevent recurrence

-Lead, facilitate, or participate in failure modes and effects analyses for specific equipment, plant systems, or entire production units to identify improvement projects to improve reliability and reduce conversion cost.

-Coordinate engineering, repair and construction activities for plant alterations and improvements,

-Lead problem solving teams to identify, design and implement improvements

-Effectively utilize and promote the use of reliability tools such as RCA, Weibull analysis, Reliability Modeling, and other reliability tools

-Coordinate and manage reliability project development, design, and installation

Job Qualifications/Skills:

-Broad range of mechanical engineering skills

-Working knowledge and training in basic reliability engineering tools including root cause analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, reliability modeling, Weibull analysis and other reliability tools.

-Practical statistical analysis

-Strong problem solving/troubleshooting skills

-Good understanding of common equipment preventative and predictive technologies

-Ability to effectively handle a large volume of important or urgent issues in a timely manner

-Ability to effectively self manage a very demanding workload

-Ability to work effectively in a team environment with diverse groups of people

-Very high level of initiative

-Very service oriented and customer focused

-Strong commitment to personnel and process safety

-Good written and oral communication skills

-Good team leadership skills

-Strong problem solving and decision-making skills

-Good judgment

-Good planning and organizing skills

-Capital project engineering experience is desirable

-Project management experience is desirable

-Operations or Maintenance experience is desirable

Bachelor (BS) or Master’s (MS) degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited university is required. 

 Three years minimum experience in a reliability engineering related job position in the petrochemical or petroleum refinery industry or similar industry is required.