Mechanical Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Need someone with strong root cause analysis (engineering) skills to lead team while providing solutions.

Provides technical guidance and support to technical and mechanical staff on areas of wastewater projects.
Develops reports and other administrative documents. Provides technical support to urban design staff. Interprets codes and regulations. Investigates and/or responds to inquiries from technical personnel, and regulatory agencies.
Analyzes work processes and implements improvements to enhance planning for a resilient approach to stormwater technical support and management.

Builds, maintains & updates hydraulic and water quality models for the La Porte Rail and Terminal water system and applies models to develop operational and CIP projects and long-range strategies. Evaluates and analyzes the water systems using various data, tools, and techniques including advanced computer models, Business Analytics (BI), and Geographical Information System (GIS). Identify, evaluate, recommend, and plan for improvements of operations, procedures, facilities, and systems.

Performs water demand projection, short-term and long-term water planning. Prepares, reviews, and provides recommendations on technical studies, CIP project reports, DCR reports, and planning reports. Performs and reviews engineering computations. Develops and designs conceptual utilities layouts, drawings, etc. Reviews, research, analyzes, internal and external data. Reviews and evaluates service requests. Assist surface & groundwater accounting. Review and identify regulatory requirements for the water utility and perform analysis to evaluate the system to find regulatory deficiencies. Coordinates engineering activities in all disciplines (i.e., Water, Wastewater, and Storm Water) as a project manager. Coordinate and participate in various meetings, keep track of project and data logs, etc.

Performs wastewater infrastructure including all wastewater systems within La Porte Rail and Terminal which are comprised of collection systems (networks of sewer pipes, manholes, sewage lift stations) and wastewater treatment facilities.

Wastewater (or wastewater) generated after the use of water from any combination of domestic, industrial, commercial or , surface runoff / storm water, and any sewer inflow or sewer infiltration.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) or a preventive maintenance approach that focuses on optimizing the reliability of a system or process. At its core, RCM seeks to identify potential failure modes and ways to prevent them before they occur. The goal is to proactively assess the risk associated with any potential failure so maintenance teams can take corrective measures quickly and effectively.

Experience

• Mechanical engineering: 3 years (Preferred)
• Clarifying: 3-5 years (Preferred)
• Chemical Plant: 3-5 years (Preferred)
• Water treatment: 3-5 years (Preferred)
• Reliability Engineering: 3-5 years (Preferred)

Desirable Experience/Attributes:

• CMRP certified (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional).
• Knowledge of and experience with:
• Rotating equipment, piping, and pressure vessels system, fluid, and solids handling systems.
• Mechanical design, machine design and operational systems.
• Mechanical integrity standards applications of materials in corrosive and toxic environments.
• Developing maintenance procedures, equipment fabrication, and repair specifications.
• Planned Preventive Maintenance technologies.
• Instrumentation and process control.
• Root Cause Failure Analysis and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.
• Industry and Corporate Engineering codes and their application.
• Cost/Capital analysis and justification.
• Process Safety Management process particularly Management of Change.
• Familiarity with Electrical Engineering (motors, controls, instruments, starters, etc.) is a plus.

Overall job description:

Provide higher level of reliability analysis through utilization of Reliability principles, tools, techniques and resources.

Track Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) recommendations, effectiveness and Optimize the PPM program (add, modify or delete tasks).

Evaluate New PPM and Equipment Technologies for use at Site to improve Reliability.

Apply engineering theory, practices, and principles to perform physical failure analysis, determine root cause of equipment failures.

o Analyze equipment trends, historical data, and equipment downtime data to recommend and justify improvements to obtain optimal life cycle cost.

• Analyze Predictive Maintenance data and make recommendations.
• Understand failure modes of critical equipment and identify appropriate Maintenance Strategies/Technologies to mitigate.
• Create, Maintain and Track the Bad Actor List (Low MTBF, High Costs, Big Downtime contributors) and develops an Action Plan for each Bad Actor through identification of proximate cause (5-Why) or formal root cause analysis as needed.
• Create Growth Models, Weibull and MTBF Calculations on individual equipment items to predict time to next failure, Changes in reliability, Probability of failure, probability of failure at some future time, Optimum time for restorative task.

o Lead Reliability Maintenance (RCM) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA+) opportunity efforts and initiatives.

Develop, lead and implement programs/systems/processes and equipment upgrades that improve equipment reliability

Monitor equipment performance and trouble shoot equipment problems.

Provide technical input to the Maintenance coordinator and Operations management for determining the criticality of scheduling equipment down for needed maintenance.

Develop equipment repair scopes and specifications, assist sourcing in selection of repair facilities, develop mechanical integrity and quality assurance plans, schedules, specifications, and render field engineering assistance during equipment repairs, inspections, fabrication, testing, and commissioning.

Develop and implement programs that optimize maintenance costs such as Optimizing PM Tasks (add, modify or delete tasks) on critical equipment.

Lead mechanical turn-around/shutdown and participate in the Post Shutdown Analysis for all Shutdown/Turnarounds.

Participate in PSM activities as defined by site manuals and practices, mainly focused in mechanical integrity (MI) and quality assurance (QA)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• La Porte, TX 77571: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person