Instrument Reliability Engineer

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BS Electrical Engineering with 3+ years experience working in a chemical manufacturing facility doing I/E Maintenance/Reliability Engineering.

The I&E Engineer will oversee plant instrumentation maintenance/reliability initiatives and interface with the appropriate maintenance and manufacturing groups to ensure the highest level of safety, productivity, work quality and reliability for all instrumentation, electrical and analyzer maintenance/reliability activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• I&E Engineer daily activities
  • Provide technical leadership on maintenance, assessment and troubleshooting of the plant instrumentation work 
  • Develop long and short-term improvement plans for the plant instrumentation reliability  
  • Lead plant instrumentation reliability studies on existing plant instrumentation and recommend needed improvements to key stakeholders 
  • Provide technical expertise in regard to instrumentation job plan development, equipment critical path, and job scopes
  • Evaluate PM strategies and recommend critical spare parts for the plant instrumentation
  • Contribute to development of instrumentation standards that will maximize reliability, efficiency, design, and spare part synergy 
  • Develop auditing protocol for instrumentation repairs and audit contracted repair organizations
  • Develop guidelines and procedures for the plant instrumentation repairs and calibrations 
  • Develop 5-year capital plan for the plant instrumentation and add to the plant capital project portfolio 
• Failure Analysis 
  • Conduct root cause failure analysis (RCFA) on instrumentation failures and analyze data using appropriate reliability analysis tools to develop and implement corrective improvement plans
  • Leadership accountability to ensure that data collected is accurate and addresses the appropriate failure modes of facility instruments 
  • Provides management team with well written and oral presentations with necessary information and supporting analysis to make appropriate business decisions.
  • Develop/approve equipment repairs per local/ codes and RAGAGEPs.
  • Propose instrumentation material of construction and other design changes to improve instrumentation reliability 

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