Mechanical Engineer - Furnaces
Catalyst Recruiting Inc.
- Pasadena, TX, United States
Mechanical Engineer - Furnace Design
A global chemical manufacturing company needs a mechanical design/reliability engineer with extensive experience in furnaces to lead efforts for a series of reformers and related processes on the gulf coast.
Key:
- MUST have experience in high-temp furnaces (SMRs, ethylene/ethane crackers, pyrolysis...)
- Experience must include design and reliability
- Mechanical engineering degree
Position:
- Manage mechanical integrity work for methane reformers, burners and other furnace and boilers
- Part of central engineering and project team for company chemical plants along the gulf coast
- Manage projects - scope + budget smaller projects & part of team for larger
- Work with the "usual" API and piping codes you would see in refineries and reformers.
- Manage NDT work with pressure vessels, burners, tubes, etc, with multiple-alloys.
- Work with all from engineered materials/exotic alloys to refractories
- Extensive work with multiple teams - mechanical integrity is in the middle of it all!
Requirements:
- 4 year degree + in mechanical
- 10+ years of experience in areas related to mechanical integrity, combustion engineering, fixed equipment reliability, etc
- Must have most of that experience in or around plants - ideally reformers (methane, ammonia plants, hydrogen plants) refineries, etc.
- Legal to work in the U.S. legally, not needing a visa now or at a later date
Salary is approx $140,000 - $157,000 plus bonus.
Posted On: Monday, September 22, 2025