Instrumentation & Electrical Reliability Engineer - Los Angeles, United States - Lotte Chemical

Description

Job Description

Job Description
Position Summary

The Reliability Engineer will provide strategic reliability support to ensure safe, cost-effective production of high product quality. This role will be the SME for instrument and electrical reliability and long-term reliability strategies to optimize asset utilization.

Essential Job Functions

Demonstrates expertise through hands-on experience with reliability modeling and prediction methods
Collaborates with other site organizations and engineering disciplines to ensure new and modified installations meet reliability and maintainability expectations
Offers guidance on adherence to availability, maintainability, and reliability standards for equipment in maintenance, turnaround, and capital projects
Strategically define, design, develop, monitor, and maintain an annual and three-year reliability plan in a professional and systematic manner

Creates value-added preventive maintenance tasks by effectively utilizing predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.

Contributes input to a Risk Management Plan, anticipating both reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation
Devises solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations
Provides technical support to production, maintenance, and technical personnel, ensuring smooth operations
Identifies long-term opportunities for improvement focusing on equipment reliability.
Studies OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) data; uses data to Pareto and help prioritize and target equipment bad actors.
Analyzes equipment CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) performance data and equipment history to identify repetitive and/or costly failure occurrences.

Applies sophisticated reliability-based tools and processes to investigate Root Cause (RCA) equipment failures and provide recommendations for elimination, ensuring corrective actions are linked back to equipment strategies.

Performs technical review of instrumented systems designs and modifications.
Abides by all safety procedures and practices applicable to location and position; participates in appropriate safety training; demonstrates commitment to and support of EHSS principles and values; champions safety at all times; participates in and/or leads safety teams or projects as appropriate
Performs other duties assigned by management that generally fall within the expected scope of this position

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. It does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Experience & KSA's Required

List specific experience and KSA's required to perform this job

8 years minimum experience required

Preferred industries:
petrochemical, chemical, or oil refining
Experience must be in a direct hire capacity taking part in a continuous process
Knowledge of Maintenance and Reliability best practices required
Process controls, PLC infrastructure, and calibration systems experience a plus
Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and follow through on assignments
Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite; ability to use database systems and other programs and applications used by this position and at Company
Fluent in English language including reading, writing, and speaking; ability to read and write at a minimum of high school level; ability to clearly communicate to all levels in the organization
Working knowledge and proficient understanding and application of international standards:
ISO 55000, ISO 55001, ISO 55002, ISO 31000, NFPA85, NFPA 86, API 556, NFPA 70, OSHA 29 CFR
Experienced in reliability methodologies and tools: Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Weibull Tree Analysis (WTA), Pareto Analysis (PA), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

Proficiency in the following technologies:
Control Valves, Process instrumentation (temperature, pressure, flow, level), Motors, motor controls, and drives, Analyzers and sample systems, Basic knowledge of power distribution systems

Proficient in defining and developing:
PM Optimization (PMO) , Predictive (PdM)

Proficient in reading:
Electrical one-line diagrams, Control logic function blocks, PLC ladder logic, Boolean logic, Cause and effects matrix
Knowledge and experience in utilizing instrumentation engineering software: InTools, Conval 11, Flowserve Performance Nxt (control valve sizing), Fisher Specification Manager (control valve sizing)
Demonstrates a continuing consciousness of safety in daily activities and implemented in work designed.
Serves as a member of a cross-functional team to resolve equipment problems, investigate incidents, and improve

reliability/availability
Meets company quality assurance requirements for personal work assignments
Provides competent coverage for issues concerning site instrument control systems and electrical systems.
Possesses strong interpersonal leadership skills are critical due to the requirement for effective communication of complex issues across the organization as well as for mentoring and consensus building
Acknowledges the importance of instrumented systems used as Independent Protection Layers (IPLs)
Collaborates with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations
Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans
Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical suppliers and maintenance service providers
Must be self-motivated and possess skills to identify and solve unusual problems
Must be able to make decisions and recommendations with minimal supervision
Stewardship and Technical Review of Safety Instrumented Systems
Provide technical expertise to Operations and Maintenance personnel
Expertise in Process Instrumentation Including Process Monitoring Devices, Control Valves, Distributed
Control Systems and PLC
Knowledge of preventative maintenance systems and their administration.
Must be willing to spend time in the field as required

Complex Problem Solving :
identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions

Critical Thinking :
using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems

Judgment and Decision Making :
Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one

Systems Analysis :
Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes

Active Learning :
Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Systems

Evaluation :
Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system

Mathematical Reasoning :
The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem

Problem Sensitivity :
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem

Category Flexibility:
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping
things in different ways

Deductive Reasoning:
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense

Inductive Reasoning:
The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)

Oral Comprehension:
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
SAP experience is highly desirable

Education Requirement

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• Bachelor's degree required in Electrical Engineering,

Electrical/Electronic

Control Systems, or

• Additional Certifications Preferred: Control Automation Engineering, Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP), Certified Reliability Leader (CRL), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), Professional Engineer in Control Systems (P.E., CSE)

Competencies

All Company Core Competencies

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

This position requires an employee to be in an office environment, outside and exposed to various chemicals and compounds, including fumes and smells, some of them hazardous.

During construction, the employee will be required to work in a construction zone with various hazards normally experienced in these environments.

The employee may enter confined spaces and work in elevated environments. Employees may experience a range of temperatures from -10 degrees F to 100+ degrees F when outside. Employees must be able to wear PPE required by the location. General office noise may be experienced and louder sounds and vibrations when outside. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. All environments are safe with appropriate PPE.

Physical Demands

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.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, including long distances, sit, stand, speak, and hear.

The employee is required to stand for long periods of time, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; the employee may be required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch.

The employee may be required to climb stairs and ladders/tanks up to 50' in height. The employee may be required to enter confined spaces. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty (20) pounds.

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

Employees may be required to travel by air, rail, bus, car, or other modes of land transportation.

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