Strategic Asset Engineer

Your Job

INVISTA is hiring a Strategic Asset Engineer for the Victoria, TX facility.

This role is pivotal in supporting Asset Management Excellence by collaborating across multiple disciplines to identify opportunities, bringing solutions to complex problems, and improving decision processes across the facility.

Individuals in this space will need good technical skills, communication skills, and enjoy working as part of a team to solve problems.

Our Team

As a member of our site team, you will join a group of professionals who value EH&S Stewardship, innovation, and transformation.

We are a collaborative team that strives to solve problems and produce chemicals that benefit humanity.

Our team is dedicated to improving our Asset Management Capability, with the goal of achieving uninterrupted operations between turnarounds.

You will report to our Performance Improvement Manager and work with SME's from various disciplines.

What You Will Do


* Lead multidisciplinary teams to generate high value availability improvement opportunities and Long-Term Asset Point of Views for advancing the business, Turnaround Strategy, and Equipment Specific Risk Reduction Initiatives


* Through Reliability Analysis, Analytics and Benchmarking identify the opportunities for improvement


* Owning critical site programs that help identify and manage top reliability improvement and risk reduction opportunities (i.e.: Bad Actor, Top Risk, Root Cause Analysis, Risk Mitigations, and Long-Term Asset Advancement)


* Reviewing and Developing Equipment Reliability Analysis and Recommendations


* Developing and help build asset management capability, influencing plant culture, and adaptively sharing knowledge across the organization


* Champion reliability projects and strategies through analyzing loss Pareto's and identifying top opportunities

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline OR experience in project management/plant coordination roles


* Experience with reliability principles, methodologies, and tools (FMEA, RCA, RCM)


* This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience in a petroleum refinery or chemical manufacturing facility


* Data analysis experience (database querying, pivot tables, & Power BIs)


* Experience in complex troubleshooting with Mechanical, Instrumentation, or Process Engineering


* Experience leading programs that influence responsibilities of an organization (availability, PSM, MI, safety, etc.)


* Experience leading root cause failure/incident analysis methods


* Statistics, Economics and Planning and/or Project-Option analysis experience prioritizing asset management efforts


* Experience in leadership roles including supervision or project management

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