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The Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer/Specialist is as a key member of the Machinery Reliability Technical Group supporting the site’s vision of being the most competitive refinery in North America. This role focuses on improving the reliability and performance of critical rotating equipment (pumps, compressors, and turbines) through a combination of hands-on troubleshooting, engineering analysis, and reliability strategy development.
This position is ideal for individuals with either strong mechanical maintenance experience or engineering experience who want to expand their impact in equipment reliability and defect elimination.
Our Team
The Machinery Asset Management team works to ensure that safety and environmental stewardship are a key part of the Flint Hills Resources (FHR) business process. We support the greater refinery team by bringing equipment knowledge along with safety, environmental and reliability-based thinking to all asset management decisions.
Our team works to align with organizational risk profile while supporting our customer’s needs and sharing ownership of risks. We generate and maintain life cycle metrics for rotating equipment, communicate risk and equipment tradeoffs, and provide alternatives to support safe, environmentally responsible and profitable decision making, aligned with FHR machinery standards and industry best practices.
What You Will Do
- Lead troubleshoot and diagnosing efforts in collaboration with other work groups (including maintenance, operations, monitoring, engineering, and external resources as needed) to help develop a proactive path forward for equipment issues including equipment upgrade, troubleshooting, maintenance rebuild and repair scopes.
- Provide technical support to both operations and maintenance personnel around machinery programs including predictive (PdM) maintenance, lubrication, alignment, and precision repair practices involving machinery specs/standards.
- Provide recommendations to MRTG, the production team, process business teams, and maintenance organization based on sound technical analysis and best practices.
- Support equipment monitoring, troubleshooting, and defect diagnosis through use of process and equipment health data from multiple sources including:
- Portable, wireless, and continuous vibration monitoring systems
- Process and equipment performance monitoring instrumentation
- Area ownership of rotating equipment work order scopes, cases, and small project upgrade recommendations
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- One year or more experience troubleshooting, maintaining, or improving rotating equipment in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment
- Experience with applying reliability, maintenance, or engineering principles (RCA, PdM, preventative maintenance, repair practices).
- Working knowledge of rotating equipment such as pumps, steam turbines, compressors, gearboxes, electric motors, etc.
- Demonstrated experience participating across maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to solve problems and implement solutions
- Ability to travel for technical development, professional development, conferences, factory acceptance testing, and 3rd party shop audits
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field
- Experience in rotating equipment reliability engineering or maintenance within a refining or heavy industrial field
- ISO Vibration Analyst certification (Category I, II, or higher)
- International Council for Machinery Lubrication MLT/MLA Certifications
- Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
- Experience working with additional predictive/ technologies (motion amplification, oil analysis, ultrasonic, thermography)
- Hands on experience with Installation, rebuilds, alignment, or repair of rotating equipment
For this role, we anticipate paying $110,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products through 4,000+ miles of pipeline -delivering energy to farmers, manufacturers and families. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
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