Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources is looking to hire a Mechanical/Reliability Engineer at our Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount, MN.

The Mechanical/Reliability Engineer has accountability to the health, performance and availability of the assets in their defined area.

This is a key role in the refinery that will work with many disciplines, primarily: Operations, Process, Project Management, Construction Services, and Reliability.

This role is an excellent opportunity to increase leadership skills and collaboration while learning and leveraging business management and reliability skills.

Our Team

The Mechanical/Reliability Engineer is a core team member of the Asset Management organization.

This team exists to excel in and transform the ways we maintain, improve and restore asset availability.

What You Will Do



* Work with a team that has diverse knowledge focused on optimizing cost, availability, and risk within KII Risk Profile and Stewardship Framework


* Understand and provide context for how a given asset creates value for the business and ensure our reliability strategies and decisions reflect that value


* Develop and implement equipment reliability strategies


* Set appropriate turnaround work scope for equipment while optimizing cost, availability, and risk


* Perform root cause failure analysis to understand equipment failures and update equipment strategies as appropriate


* Assist in complex critical equipment troubleshooting and aligning on scope of repair


* Lead change through MOC process ensuring process safety objectives are met


* Analyze maintenance and capital spending against investment strategies and benchmarks


* Act as project manager on select reliability and business improvement projects


* Some overtime may be required, which might include nights, weekends and holidays during turnarounds and outages


* Able to climb structures and inspect equipment both at high elevations and in confined spaces

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor's degree in Engin eerin g AND t hree (3) years or more of industrial experience in refining, energy, chemical or related fields OR Four (4) years or more of industrial experience in refining, energy, chemical or related fields



* Knowledge and understanding of equipment reliability engineering with ability to troubleshoot and diagnose


* Experience framing opportunities and advancing initiatives

What Will Put You Ahead



* Ten (10) years or more industrial experience in refining, energy, and/or chemical sectors


* Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering


* Experience with construction management, field execution, and craft coordination


* Experience in project development, economic thinking, and marginal analysis

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