Rotating Equipment Engineer

Our client, a major chemical company, is looking for a Lead Rotating Equipment Engineer to work on a long-term contract in Houston, TX / La Porte, TX.

Main Responsibilities :

Work in a team environment with other engineering disciplines, operations, and mechanical personnel

Specify new rotating equipment to comply with industry and company design practices

Ensure safe, cost effective, operable rotating equipment and associated systems are provided and maintained to meet business unit needs

Have leadership capabilities with strong organizational, communication, and team working skills, through a combination of formal training and / or experiences

Provide quality control and design reviews of new projects that involve rotating equipment

Have a demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority

Project design support – engineering of the right equipment for the project and selection of the best manufacturers

Project implementation support - testing of large rotating equipment together with the manufacturers

Work with the proposal team (including third party engineering firms) to develop a competitive basis for the rotating equipment scope and its integration into the process cycle, represent the Machinery Engineering function in project planning activities and prepare the functional execution strategy and manhours estimate aligned to the project scope, overall execution strategy and schedule in detail design phase.

Lead the execution for technical elements of critical rotating equipment on assigned projects during DED phase with responsibility for delivering committed work on-schedule and on-budget.

Represent the Machinery Engineering function in cross-functional project meetings including P&ID review, HAZOP, layout review and model review.

Review technical specification packages for enquiry / purchase for critical rotating equipment and undertake technical evaluation, development, and technical risk assessment (including development of associated risk mitigation plans) of supplier proposals.

Lead kick-off and design review meetings with suppliers of purchased critical rotating equipment.

Liaise with the other engineering functions and coordinate cross-functional review of supplier drawings to facilitate integration of purchased equipment into the overall plant design

Witness inspections and testing of purchased critical rotating equipment.

Provide technical support throughout the project construction and commissioning phases retaining overall technical responsibility for rotating equipment until successful handover to the operations. Perform site inspections to ensure installation in accordance with Oxy and supplier requirements Main Requirements :

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering

Minimum of 4 years direct rotating equipment support as a maintenance or reliability engineer in an operating facility.

Minimum 2 major projects experiences functioning as an rotating equipment engineer or machinery engineer

Working knowledge on rotating equipment standards such as API, PIP