Machinery Specialist

Your Job

The Machinery Specialist works as a key member of the Machinery Reliability Technical Group supporting the site's vision of being the most competitive refinery in North America by leveraging machinery anomaly troubleshooting, equipment failure diagnosis (pumps, compressors, and turbines), and cost-effective repair scoping to meet equipment availability targets for plant rotating equipment.

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 bets to customers, and provide alternatives as needed 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)



* Three (3) years or more of equipment reliability experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment


* Experience with reliability programs (Analysis, RCA, PdM, preventative maintenance, lubrication, equipment installation and repair).


* Basic vibration and equipment troubleshooting knowledge


* Working knowledge of machinery, including pumps, steam turbines, compressors, gearboxes, electric motors, etc.


* Demonstrated experience participating in cross-functional teams to analyze issues and implement solutions


* Ability to travel for technical development, professional development,...