Rotating Equipment Specialist

Canadian Inclusion; Brandon; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Fertilizer Canada’s Brandon, Manitoba site is seeking a Rotating Equipment Specialist to safeguard reliability and availability of critical rotating assets across ammonia, nitric acid, urea, UAN, and ANS units. This field-oriented role supports maintenance, reliability and operations teams, applying integrity programs and supplier collaboration.

The role requires Red Seal or equivalent mechanical engineering tech credentials, strong vibration/condition-monitoring expertise, and CMMS

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining rotating equipment in industrial/process environments.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings and OEM manuals.
• Legally entitled to work in Canada without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Apply Zero-SIF principles, approved procedures, and the KAES Rotating Equipment Mechanical Integrity Program while identifying and resolving machinery hazards, unsafe conditions, and technical scope gaps.
• Troubleshoot compressors, steam turbines, pumps, blowers, gearboxes, and auxiliary systems using operating history, field observations, condition-monitoring data, and equipment performance trends.
• Provide technical field leadership for precision maintenance, overhauls, inspections, measurements, QA/QC, ITPs, startups, shutdowns, trips, plant upsets/outages, and post-repair return to service.
• Lead or provide root-cause failure analyses, incident investigations, reliability improvements, and updates to maintenance strategies, inspection requirements, and equipment records.
• Analyze vibration, lube oil-analysis, operating, startup, and shutdown data to proactively diagnose developing faults, assess risk, and recommend suitable corrective actions
• Develop technical content for CMMS work orders, turnaround scopes, repair requirements, quality hold points, acceptance criteria, and lead follow-up actions.
• Partner with OEMs, repair shops, field-service providers, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Corporate SMEs and Engineering to manage repair quality, documentation, equipment readiness and new equipment installation/ projects.

Skills

Vibration analysis

Precision maintenance

Reading mechanical drawings

Root-cause analysis

Education

Interprovincial Red Seal Millwright or Machinist

Technical diploma or degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Tools

Maximo

SAP

Condition-monitoring platforms

Job description

Rotating Equipment Specialist (Engineering)

Your Job

Koch Fertilizer Canada's Brandon, Manitoba nitrogen complex is seeking a Rotating Equipment Specialist to strengthen the safety, reliability, and availability of critical rotating assets. This is a field-oriented technical role supporting maintenance, reliability and operation team for rotating assets across the ammonia, nitric acid, urea, UAN, and ANS production units.

Our Team

This role will work alongside Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Corporate SMEs and external service providers to diagnose equipment problems, define fit for purpose corrective actions, and verify machinery performance following maintenance or repair while applying Principle Based Management and the Rotating Equipment Mechanical Integrity Program.

What You Will Do

• Apply Zero-SIF principles, approved procedures, and the KAES Rotating Equipment Mechanical Integrity Program while identifying and resolving machinery hazards, unsafe conditions, and technical scope gaps.
• Troubleshoot compressors, steam turbines, pumps, blowers, gearboxes, and auxiliary systems using operating history, field observations, condition-monitoring data, and equipment performance trends.
• Provide technical field leadership for precision maintenance, overhauls, inspections, measurements, QA/QC, ITPs, startups, shutdowns, trips, plant upsets/ outages, and post-repair return to service.
• Lead or provide root-cause failure analyses, incident investigations, reliability improvements, and updates to maintenance strategies, inspection requirements, and equipment records.
• Analyze vibration, lube oil-analysis, operating, startup, and shutdown data to proactively diagnose developing faults, assess risk, and recommend suitable corrective actions
• Develop technical content for CMMS work orders, turnaround scopes, repair requirements, quality hold points, acceptance criteria, and lead follow-up actions.
• Partner with OEMs, repair shops, field-service providers, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Corporate SMEs and Engineering to manage repair quality, documentation, equipment readiness and new equipment installation/ projects.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Interprovincial (Red Seal) Millwright or Machinist certification, OR a technical diploma or degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology or a related discipline.
• Experience maintaining, inspecting, and troubleshooting rotating equipment in an industrial or process environment such as fertilizer, petrochemical, refining, power, or a similar operation.
• Extensive experience with precision-maintenance practices including shaft alignment, balancing, bearings, seals, and couplings.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, OEM manuals, and equipment specifications.
• Legally entitled to work in Canada without current or future sponsorship.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Extensive experience with critical or un-spared machinery, including centrifugal and reciprocating compressors and steam turbines.
• Familiarity with rotating equipment API standards for pumps, compressors, and reciprocating machinery, including design and repair practices.
• Experience with a CMMS (Maximo or SAP preferred) and condition-monitoring or asset-health platforms.
• Vibration-analysis certification (ISO Category I/II or equivalent) and hands-on condition-monitoring experience
• Experience in an ammonia or nitrogen fertilizer facility, or another Process Safety Management-covered site.
• Formal Reliability Certification or root-cause failure analysis methodology experience.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Fertilizer delivers a full line of fertilizers designed to boost crop performance and help growers reach their yields. Our team also brings logistical expertise and a wide range of invaluable services, from delivered freight and logistics capabilities to online shipment tracking.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.