Rotating Reliability Engineer

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Rotating Reliability Engineer

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Rotating Reliability Engineer to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty Ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Maintenance function.

This position will report to the Maintenance Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Rotating Equipment Strategy Owner
+ Create and own reliability strategies for pumps, compressors, gearboxes, centrifuges, agitators, fans, blowers, and seals
+ Develop asset criticality
+ Define repair-versus-replace recommendations and lifecycle plans
+ Maintain equipment standards, preferred designs, and application guidance


* Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Leader
+ Lead vibration, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, oiling, and performance-monitoring programs
+ Set monitoring routes, alarm limits, collection frequencies, and escalation criteria
+ Review condition-monitoring findings and convert them into prioritized actions
+ Ensure monitoring technologies are matched to equipment failure modes


* Defect Elimination & Root Cause Leader
+ Lead or support RCAs for significant or repetitive rotating-equipment failures
+ Analyze failure history, repair records, vibration data, and operating conditions
+ Identify physical, human, and system causes and develop sustainable countermeasures
+ Track corrective actions and verify effectiveness after implementation


* Bad Actor & Reliability Improvement Manager
+ Maintain a ranked bad-actor list using downtime, cost, frequency, risk, and production impact
+ Build business cases for reliability improvements and equipment upgrades
+ Facilitate cross-functional improvement plans with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Supply Chain
+ Quantify benefits and sustainment requirements for completed improvements


* Maintenance Strategy & Work Quality Partner
+ Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance tasks using failure modes and equipment history
+ Provide technical scope for inspections, repairs, overhauls, precision installation, alignment, and balancing
+ Review repair quality, tolerance documentation, and post-maintenance acceptance data
+ Partner with planners, supervisors, technicians, and vendors on complex rotating-equipmen...