Reliability Engineer

Company: Praxair, Inc.
Location: Port Arthur
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

About Linde:

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2019 sales of $28 billion (25 billion). We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets including aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing and primary metals. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit www.linde.com.

Job Overview:

HyCO has an immediate opening for a position in the Reliability group to support HyCO's operating plants in the Sabine Region, based out of the Port Arthur, TX facility. This position is responsible for improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of plant fixed and rotating equipment by applying engineering expertise to maintenance, performance, and operational issues. Aspects of the job include the following:

• Drive standard practices around preventive and predictive maintenance processes for responsible sites.
• Establish and monitor inspections, PMs and PdMs for mechanical equipment.
• Maintain high level of effectiveness around CMMS and Spare parts availability.
• Drive reduction in unplanned down time, discovery work and repeat events to reduce overall life cycle cost and increase operating profit for the HyCO business

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform inspections and support troubleshooting activities on mechanical equipment to improve plant safety, reliability, and overall performance.
• Perform failure analysis and RCAs on equipment failures. Develop corrective actions and track results.
• Develop maintenance procedures and PMs to improve equipment performance and reliability while minimizing repair costs.
• Develop and implement equipment maintenance strategies working with Subject Matter Experts
• Analyze bad actors and repeat corrective maintenance items. Maintain bad actor list and serve as scope lead for projects that eliminate bad actors.
• Perform quarterly IR scans of refractory-lined equipment and issue recommendations as needed.
• Review results of predictive programs (i.e. oil analysis, vibration routes) to monitor equipment health, predict failures, and optimize maintenance frequency.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in PM and PdM programs and techniques to improve equipment reliability.
• Capable of handling multiple assignments and appropriately prioritizing work.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to communicate with all levels of the organization to drive improvements in reliability.
• Highly motivated individual with the ability to work independently or in a team environment.
• Ability to travel 30% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Hydrogen Producing Facility
• Vibration Institute Certification
• MHM database training
• International Council for Machinery Lubrication Level 1
• Infrared Training

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

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