Ethylene Maintenance Rotating Equipment Engineer

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda – key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem's market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

- Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and or transport our products, as our highest priority.

- Ensure that Process Safety and Risk Management objectives are practiced daily through participation in Management of Change, Process Hazards Analysis, Process Safety Hazard Hunter, and Pre-startup Review responsibilities.

- Establish, develop, and implement the Rotating Equipment Maintenance (REM) program in accordance with company guidelines, codes, and governmental regulations.

- Ensure Ingleside Plant’s REM program guidelines are current, and instill correct practices across all Ingleside’s Operations sites, and comply with the latest Maintenance Guidelines maintained by Corporate HES Risk Engineering, manufacturers, or industry.

- Maintain appropriate Engineering drawings, files, and specifications as required.

- Review facility rotating equipment activities to ensure manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, and operation conform to all specifications, codes, standards and procedures.

- Assist and/or lead in development, planning, and execution of outages or major repair work with maintenance and production.

- Evaluate capital project scopes and vendor proposals for new equipment purchases.

- Prepare capital appropriation for maintenance related projects.

- Conduct failure mode analyses to identify units posing excessive failure risks and support proposed changes in design.

- Assist in the training / coaching of hourly personnel in repairs and preventative maintenance.

- Supervise hourly and contract personnel as required.

- Maintain knowledge of current practices within the industry related to rotating equipment design, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operation to assist in ensuring success of the REM program.

- Maintain or gain certification in vibration acquisition and analysis to assist in rotating equipment troubleshooting and repair.

- Develop, implement, monitor, and communicate mean-time-between-failures program for all critical rotating equipment within the Ingleside Site.

- Recommend, establish and maintain spare parts requirements for existing equipment.

- Maintain critical rotating equipment repair records and logs.

- Monitor performance of critical rotating equipment daily.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree with 2 years minimum experience in plant maintenance or project engineering.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- In-depth knowledge of industry standards and other applicable codes relating to mechanical systems and rotating equipment.

- Actual experience in design/maintenance of miscellaneous rotating equipment and associated failure analysis is preferred.

- Actual experience in maintenance repair and troubleshooting of rotating equipment such as steam turbines, multi-stage chemical compressors, reciprocating compressors, screw compressors, liquid ring compressors, centrifugal pumps, mechanical seal systems, lubrication systems, blowers, gearboxes, mixers, cooling tower fans and centrifuges.

- High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).

- Ability to read, write and speak in English.

- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.

- Ability to work weekends, holidays and respond to callouts on a non-routine basis.

- Physical requirements - Must be able to lift 40 lbs, climb ladders and stairs. Walking, bending, stooping is required. Must be able to wear personal protective equipment including the use of a respirator. Must be able to respond to visual and audible alarms.

Recruitment Fraud

It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.

Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:

• Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees

• Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or

• Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.

We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.