Reliability Engineer

R10094732 Reliability Engineer (Open)



Location

Houston, TX (HO) - NAM Corporate



Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

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We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.

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Air Liquide is hiring for a Reliability Engineer in Houston, TX.

We are looking for you!
 

Comprehensive Family Benefits: Air Liquide offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
Early Access: Your benefits start on the first day of employment.

Job Responsibilities:

The Reliability Engineer identifies and resolves risks to Air Liquide's production and business operations. This role involves coaching site personnel on equipment best practices and analyzing maintenance data to enhance plant availability and asset uptime. The engineer ensures successful solution implementation and collaborates with the Reliability team, Subject Matter Experts, and Plant Management to develop strategies that minimize reliability incidents and their associated costs.

• Ensures safe, efficient, and reliable asset operations as relates to self and others during operational, maintenance, optimization and troubleshooting activities

• Implements continuous improvement strategies and provides constructive feedback on  the Air Liquide programs and initiatives

• Follows all AL Policies and Standard Operating and Maintenance Procedures.

• Ability to work towards the role as a Technical Expert in reliability and maintenance

• Follows governmental rules and  engineering standards: (API, ASME, ANSI, NBIC, NFPA, etc)

• Ability to read and interpret company industrial/quality standards  and local documents

• Leads and/or participates in RCA (Root Cause Analysis) investigations

• Utilizes and understands Enterprise Asset Management system (Maximo)

• Responsible for identifying reliability threats and driving improvements for the top 10 threats to production

• Ownership of the reliability performance of the facility that they are supporting

• Ensures equipment technologies and maintenance strategies are applied uniformly throughout the facility. 

• Reviews and optimizes predictive and preventive Work Orders Job Plans with the support of Subject Matter Experts across multiple disciplines. (Rotating, Stationary, Instrumentation, Electrical)

• Reviews, and approves  maintenance job plans

• Follows up with Plants to ensure corporate PM/PdM matrix goals are being met

• Collects, Organizes, Analyzes, Interprets, and prioritizes preventive and/or predictive maintenance data as relates to mechanical inspections and condition based monitoring (vibration, oil analysis, IR analysis, data mining, predictive analytics, etc.)

• Conducts  reliability data analysis –examples include but are not limited to: statistical Process Control, Reliability modeling and prediction, Data mining, Fault Tree Analysis, Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time Between Failure, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Return on Net Assets plant/zone availability and reliability

• Generates Reliability Event reports in Air Liquide’s industrial Reporting Software/Database

• Reviews and analyzes reliability incidents. Identifies trends and proposes long-term solutions, supports execution of solutions at the facility level. 

• Supports Predictive Maintenance Programs (Vibration, Transformer Oil, Rotating Equipment Oil, PD motor monitoring and Thermography - Electrical Equipment.

• Collaborates with Maintenance & Operations Teams

• Solves complex problems: takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.

• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations

• Participates in facility Maintenance Planning and Execution meetings to identify recurring equipment issues and concerns. 

• Supports implementation of the AL Mechanical Integrity Program

• Participates in scope development and turnaround activities, activity supports on site turnaround activities from a reliability engineering perspective. 

• Leads Production Site Monthly Reliability Meetings

• Facilitates Reliability reviews for primary production plants and pipeline networks

• Participates in PSSR’s as requested

• Provides recommendations to optimize  asset maintenance, critical spare parts, rebuild and inspection costs

• Optimizes current maintenance strategies  based upon the RCA or Industry Best Practices

• Implements continuous improvement strategies

• Identifies and recommends  solutions and processes that are sustainable

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering with 5 years of related reliability engineering, operations or maintenance & reliability activities required.

• Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

• Extensive working knowledge of machinery, process equipment and associated reliability or maintenance practices.

• Ability to work self directed and make sound decisions Able to travel as required.

• Provide 24/7 production support as needed during turnaround periods. 

Accountabilities:

• Attend monthly safety meetings

• 100 % compliant with Air Liquide Business Entity Safety Standards

• Owns the reliability performance of their assigned facilities

• Complies with all Air Liquide Business Entity Maintenance Strategy Guidelines and  follows Industry Best Practices

• Complies with all  government Health and Safety regulatory agencies  (OSHA, MSHA, FDA, EPA, etc)

• Monitors and generates reports on maintenance performance standards and activities

Physical Requirements: 

• Physical range of motion required to climb/descend ladders, work off elevated platforms/surfaces at heights above 50 feet; inspect equipment in high elevation areas (cooling tower fans, gearboxes, Fin Fans, compressor decks, etc)

• Has full range of motion; ability to lift 50 lbs

• Able to enter confined spaces for inspection/testing while wearing fall restraint and respirators

• Ability to travel as needed and on short notice if necessary

• Can be consulted 24/7 by Operations and Industrial Direction Departments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior industrial gas experience

• Maintenance Engineering experience with typical petrochemical plant equipment

• Detailed knowledge of Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

• Excellent project management skills

• Excellent planning and organizational skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent practical and the theoretical  Mechanical skills (Primary Discipline)

• Cross-Functional  Discipline Experience a plus (Operations, Rotating Equipment, Electrical (HV, MV, LV)   and /or Instrumentation),

• Experience in Google, MS and other software applications

• Possess the following competencies: Initiative, Impact and Influence, Conflict Management/Teamwork, Development of Self and other, Strategic Thinking, Organizational skills.





Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.