Rotating Equipment Engineer

Chicago Metro Area (Near Gary, IN)

 

A chemical company needs a reliability engineer to be part of the engineering team. This position works with both fixed and rotating equipment with additional focus on asset management.

 

KEY:

• Over 5 years of experience in chemical/similar plant asset management and reliability engineering.
• Experience with rotating and fixed ideal
• Mechanical/chemical or similar degree

 

Position:

• Work with local plants and corporate reliability team chemical operations reporting to company reliability director.
• Assist site maintenance/reliability and ops with their reliability issues
• "Own" The RCA program to address major failures and put forward solutions for sites and corporate
• Work with individual operations to set-up and optimize their reliability systems
• Manage site and multi-site reliability initiatives
• Extensive work with rotating equipment: pumps, compressors, blowers
• Extensive work with fixed equipment: chillers, piping, vessels, hydraulics, process assemblies, etc.
• Understand/work with NDT/vibrant, etc.
• Work with, improve, RCM and TPM system.
• This is a team position - no one need be expert at it all!
• RCA, FMEA, MOC, etc - acronyms that you must know well!
• Support capital projects and turnarounds

 

Required

 

• BS in mechanical or chemical engineering
• Potentially 10% travel for training and to assist/oversee efforts at other plants.
• Significant experience in as many of the items above as possible
• At least 5 years experience with operating plants (chemical, petrochem, refining, etc)
• Must be legal to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future

 

Salary is over $130k - $160k, bonus, etc

Posted On: Monday, March 17, 2025