Maintenance Engineer

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Job Description

Pinnacle is committed to building future leaders through a dedicated career program where you are in control of your own professional journey. Whether you are interested in project management, solving critical problems, or working directly with the customer to understand their specific needs, we have the resources and opportunities to help you reach your goals.

Pinnacle is focused on helping industrial facilities improve reliability performance, resulting in increased production, optimized spending, and improved process safety and environmental impact. We bridge the gap between data and reliability decisions by combining reliability engineering expertise with data science and technology. Pinnacle serves a variety of industries, including:

- Oil & Gas

- Food & Beverage

- Specialty & Petrochemical

- Pharmaceutical

- Mining

- Agriculture & Fertilizer

- Lumber

- Water & Wastewater

The Pinnacle Way is our framework for ensuring that each of our teams operates with excellence while we consistently meet customer needs and provide a world-class experience.

Why Advance Your Career at Pinnacle?

Career Growth: Pinnacle supports professional development with comprehensive onboarding, training, and leadership programs. Whether you are interested in project management, solving critical problems, or working directly with the customer, we have the resources and opportunities to help you achieve your goals.

Innovative Culture: We embrace curiosity, engagement, and a commitment to excellence in everything we do. Pinnacle is where reliability meets innovation, constantly exploring ways to redefine reliability in industries like Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Mining, and more.

Work Environment: A collaborative, supportive work culture with strong team dynamics, open access to leadership, and fun workplace perks like quarterly fellowship events, family gatherings, a free premium coffee bar, and an on-site gym.

The Impact of a Maintenance Engineer

A proactive maintenance engineer driving refinery reliability, safety, and profitability by anticipating problems before they occur, eliminating recurring failures, and turning maintenance from a reactive cost into a strategic advantage. Taking actions to minimize downtime, extend asset life, and strengthen the partnership between operations, maintenance, and engineering

Your Job Responsibilities:

- Drive asset improvement in areas of safety, environmental, reliability and process capacity

- Identify and develop recommendations for changes and projects to improve unit operation.

- Participate in and eventually lead root cause analyses (RCA) for mechanical and process equipment failures.

- Assist in maintaining and improving PM/PdM programs, with increasing responsibility over time.

- Support and progressively take ownership of reliability strategy for critical assets (pumps, exchangers, vessels, piping, compressors).

- Optimize spare parts inventory and maintenance planning processes.

- Coordinate with operations to schedule and execute maintenance activities.

- Support turnaround planning and project scope development.

- Track and improve reliability KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance).

- Drive bad actor elimination and reliability improvement initiatives.

- Champion use of CMMS, data analytics, and digital reliability tools.

Accountabilities:

Improved equipment reliability ( MTBF,

- unplanned downtime).

- Increased proactive work (% PM/PdM vs reactive maintenance).

- Controlled maintenance cost per asset or per barrel.

- Reduction in repeat failures and recurrence of known issues.

- Compliance with safety, environmental, and mechanical integrity standards.

- Implementation and closure of reliability or cost improvement actions.

- Effective collaboration with operations, inspection, and project teams.

Required Qualifications:

- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Technology/Reliability

- Experience specifically working with rotating equipment

- Pumps (multi-stage and direct drive) and various compressors (small to medium)

- 50-80hp range

- Demonstrated troubleshooting ability and willingness to develop engineering-level analytical skills

- Understanding of how a good RCA works; previous facilitation experience or ability to quickly become a facilitator

- Humility and foresight when to engage an SME as needed

- Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE).

- Working knowledge of API 510/570/653, ASME codes, and reliability tools (RCM, FMEA, RCA).

- Familiarity with risk-based inspection (RBI) and fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments.

- Proficiency with data visualization or analytics tools (Power BI, Spotfire, Excel).

- Proficiency in CMMS (SAP, Maximo, etc.) and maintenance planning systems.

- Experience using condition monitoring and predictive maintenance technologies.

Benefits:

The Complete You

- Health, vision, and dental insurance, life insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off (PTO), nine paid holidays, 8 hours of volunteer paid time off (VPTO), and maternity and parental leave.

Campus Perks (while visiting or working from the Pasadena office)

- Onsite gym with full amenities, walking workstations, free parking, mini mart/snack machines, gourmet coffee machines, multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration areas, huddle rooms, deep workspaces, and lactation facilities.

Company Celebrations

- Quarterly town hall and fellowships, length of service awards where employees receive additional paid time off and bonuses to cover travel expenses for anniversary milestone trips (5, 10, and 15 years).

Empowering You for Success

- Opportunity to participate in customer-focused project management groups (PODs) that help facilitate collaboration and project support, access to company technology stack of Microsoft Office 365 Suite and MS Teams, comprehensive onboarding, on-demand training, regular lunch and learns, supervisor and accountability training, leadership development programs, continuous learning opportunities, and more.

About Pinnacle:

Headquartered in Pasadena, Texas, Pinnacle is focused on helping industrial facilities improve reliability performance, resulting in increased production, optimized spend, and improved process safety and environmental impact. Pinnacle bridges the gap between data and reliability decisions by combining reliability engineering expertise with data science and technology. Pinnacle is privately held and has been consistently recognized for its growth by Inc. Magazine, the Houston Business Journal, and more.

Working Environment

- Conditions may include working inside and/or outside. Prepare site, materials, and tools. Loading, unloading, assembly and disassembly of materials, tools, and equipment. May work in office environment or in plant around machinery with moving parts and moving objects. Working near radiant and electrical energy. Working closely with others or working alone. Working at height, including drops below ground level. Working extended or irregular hours and travelling by all possible modes of transportation. May work in conjunction with customer representatives, inspectors, and other contractors.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

- Frequently required to stand; use hands to grasp, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms; and climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl in an outdoor environment.

- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

- May be required to work flexible work hours; on-call duty, plant outages.

Tools and PPE Requirements

- Equipment (machines, tools, devices) used in performing the essential job function include but not limited to computer and related equipment, calculator, special instrumentation, hand tools, power tools, air tools, telephone, and automobile. Ability to wear proper personal protective equipment (PPE), including but not limited to, safety glasses, hardhat, reinforced toed shoes, coveralls, gloves, and ear plugs or muffs. Must abide by safety guidelines and regulations.

Limitations and Disclaimer

This job description describes the general job duties, accountabilities and physical requirements associates with the position; it is not an exhaustive list of all the duties, accountabilities, or skills required for the position.

The general job duties, accountabilities and physical requirements associated with the position are subject to modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some physical requirements may exclude individuals who pose a threat or risk to the health or safety to themselves or others.

This job description neither states nor implies that the listed general job duties, accountabilities, and physical requirements associated with the position are the only tasks expected of an employee. An employee is also required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related tasks requested by their supervisor and not in violation of any applicable laws, regulations, or rules.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities. To perform this job successfully, an employee must possess the abilities and aptitude to perform each duty, accountability, and physical requirement proficiently.

Visa Sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with Pinnacle in the U.S. is required. This employer will not sponsor any applicants for the following work visa in this job category: H-1B - Cap Subject (Change of Status or Consular Notification). Note that an H-1B Change of Employer is generally not considered to be Cap Subject.

Pinnacle participates in E-Verify, a federal government system used to verify employment authorization and social security number of each new employee.

Pinnacle is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex, age, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.