Strategic Asset Engineer

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources is now hiring a Strategic Asset Engineer (SAE) for the Corpus Christi, TX refinery.

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.

The successful individual for this role must be willing to take personal initiative to understand plant operations, gain relevant knowledge, engage SME's and be able to work both individually and as a part of a team to innovate our Asset Management Capability with the vision that units run turnaround-to-turnaround without unplanned outages.

You will be part of a site team striving to evolve site EH&S Stewardship, while innovating and transforming our capabilities to supply fuels and chemicals essential for human flourishing.

What You Will Do



* Lead and facilitate small teams with the goal of asset or system improvements (RCA/problem solving; long term asset POVs and business improvements; and TA or equipment-specific risk reduction initiatives)


* Data analysis, analytics, and benchmarking to identify opportunities for improvement


* Review, mentoring and/or implementation for equipment reliability strategies


* Program ownership and/or support (Asset Management/Reliability Strategies, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Learning Team/HOP Facilitation, Benchmarking, and Long-Term Asset Advancement) based on experience


* Collaborate with Maintenance and Reliability teams to ensure EAM records support insightful analytics and predictive maintenance initiatives.


* Trainer to develop and support building asset management capability, influencing plant culture, and adaptively sharing knowledge across the organization


* Able to work in the field and climb towers, vessels, and work in shops, etc.

when needed

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* 8 years of experience in Reliability; Asset Management or Monitoring; Process or Project Engineering or a related area in a refinery, petrochemical, fertilizer or related industry


* Proven ability to lead cross-functional and/or cross-site initiatives and collaborate across diverse teams.


* Available to travel up to 10%

What Will Put You Ahead



* Bachelor's degree in engineering


* Ten (10)+ years of experience in a refinery or process plant


* Field troubleshooting experience - Mechanical, Instrumentation, Process Engineering and/or Turnaround Support roles


* Knowledge and practical use of Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Value Creation Events (VCE) / Lean methodologies to drive data and process improvements.


* Statistics, Economics, and Planning and/or Project-Option analysis experience prior...