Global Machinery Engineering, Sr. Mgr.

LyondellBasell North America; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Pension Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Educational Assistance

Global Remote Work Policy: option to 2

Job summary

LyondellBasell in Houston seeks a Global Machinery Engineering Manager to lead a global team of engineers dedicated to safe, reliable, and cost-effective machinery across our manufacturing network. You will set priorities, guide asset strategies, mentor engineers, and partner with sites, procurement, and suppliers to improve reliability and lifecycle performance.

This leadership role requires deep turbomachinery knowledge, a track record with capital projects, and the ability to drive change

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering or closely related field.
• Advanced degree or relevant certification preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of machinery engineering experience, including petrochemical/refining environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead global machinery engineers and specialists, set priorities, manage performance, and mentor staff.
• Provide strategic leadership for reliability, maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, and lifecycle decisions.
• Maintain machinery engineering standards and foster knowledge transfer across sites and functions.
• Direct resources for major machinery capital projects and provide oversight for turnarounds and asset strategies.

Skills

Machinery engineering

Leadership

Reliability engineering

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Advanced degree or professional certification preferred

Job description

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Global Machinery Engineering, Sr. Mgr.

Location:

Houston, TX, US, 77049

Facility: Channelview-Hec-130

Department: Mechanical Engineering, Machinery

Division: Technology and Safety

LyondellBasellis a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-yearlegacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietaryMoReTecrecycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We'readdressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

Come Join an Inclusive Team

The Global Machinery Engineering Manager is part of the Global Asset Integrity and Turnaround organization and provides technical leadership for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of critical machinery across LYB's global manufacturing portfolio. The role serves as a corporate technical resource for turbomachinery, finishing equipment, and associated machinery systems. The Global Machinery Engineering team partners with manufacturing sites, capital project teams, turnaround organizations, Global Procurement, and equipment suppliers to improve machinery reliability and lifecycle performance. This position also strengthens organizational capability through technical networks, standards, mentoring, knowledge transfer, and collaborative problem solving.

A Day in the Life

Leadership and Organizational Development

• Lead, develop, and manage a global team of machinery engineers and specialists, including goal setting, work assignments, performance management, coaching, career development, and succession planning.
  Regularly communicate the team's impact and influence on site and global priorities.
  Establish technical priorities, work processes, and organizational goals for the immediate team and the broader machinery engineering organization.
  Develop organizational capability through training matrices, technical training, mentoring, and structured knowledge transfer.
  Build and maintain a strong global machinery community that leverages relationships with key site personnel to improve technical capability and solve challenging problems.

Machinery Reliability and Asset Strategy

• Provide strategic leadership, technical direction, and organizational accountability for critical machinery reliability, maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, and lifecycle decisions.
  Develop and support long-range improvement strategies for machinery reliability and lifecycle performance.
  Lead or facilitate efforts to identify and eliminate recurring bad actors and chronic machinery issues that impact process safety, reliability and maintenance performance.
  Support Technical Networks, Reliability Improvement Teams, RAM studies, and machinery asset strategy development.

Technical Standards and Organizational Capability

• Serve as a steward for machinery engineering standards, maintaining alignment with applicable industry standards.
  Build and sustain technical networks that connect global and site machinery personnel, enable collaboration on common problems, and promote the sharing and cataloging of knowledge.
  Champion collaborative design reviews for critical machinery changes to improve the quality and reliability of engineering solutions while developing organizational capability through active knowledge transfer, mentoring, and technical engagement of engineers across all experience levels
  Lead and oversee the team responsible for delivering technical training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to engineers and specialists across experience levels
• Capital Projects and Equipment Acquisition
• Assign and direct technical resources supporting major machinery capital projects, including equipment selection, specifications, design reviews, supplier engagement, installation, commissioning, and startup.
  Serve as the Capital Program Owner for machinery within long-range capital planning and guide machinery investment prioritization using technical, risk, and lifecycle considerations.

Turnaround, Site Support, and Emergency Response

• Provide technical resources for turnaround planning, execution, and post-turnaround review through assessments, mentoring, field support, and quality assurance.
  Support the continued development and implementation of the corporate machinery turnaround planning model and associated protocols.
  Provide oversight and quality assurance for overhauls of critical machinery trains.
  Provide strategic and tactical support to manufacturing sites for high-consequence or high-profile machinery issues.

Supplier and Technology Management

• Partner with Global Procurement and site personnel to support strategic relationships with key machinery suppliers and service providers.
• Evaluate emerging machinery technologies and recommend practical applications that improve safety, reliability, maintainability, or business value.
• Promote appropriate standardization and optimization of machinery technologies across the manufacturing network.

You Bring This Value

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline is required.
• Advanced engineering degree or relevant professional certification is preferred.
• Work Experience
• A minimum of 15 years of relevant machinery engineering experience, including required experience in a petrochemical or refining plant; additional experience in a central or corporate engineering organization or a comparable industrial setting may be applied toward the total experience requirement.
• Personnel leadership experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with critical machinery, turbomachinery, finishing equipment, and/or associated machinery systems.
• Experience supporting major capital projects, machinery overhauls, turnarounds, commissioning, or startup activities.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional and geographically dispersed engineering teams.
• Experience working with major machinery OEMs, repair facilities, and service providers is preferred.

Area of Expertise, Requirements

• Strong knowledge of machinery reliability, diagnostics, condition monitoring, maintenance strategies, troubleshooting, repair, and overhaul practices.
• Ability to analyze complex machinery problems, evaluate risk, and develop practical recommendations that balance safety, reliability, cost, and business priorities.
• Working knowledge of applicable machinery engineering standards, specifications, and industry practices.
• Demonstrated ability to author and assess technical reports, standards, specifications, procedures, and guidance documents.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and provide support across operating sites and functional organizations with minimal guidance.

Languages

• Fluent in written and spoken English; an additional language is preferred.

Other Skills

• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills with the ability to build partnerships across manufacturing sites, engineering functions, projects, procurement, and suppliers.
• High trust, integrity, and technical credibility, with the courage to champion corporate requirements and drive improvement when facing resistance.
• Ability to lead through both direct accountability and influence, advancing organizational goals across sites and functions.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present technical information to leadership and non-specialist audiences.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, mentoring, and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel to manufacturing sites, supplier facilities, project locations, and turnaround events as business needs require.

What We Offer

We offer employees a competitive total compensation package, which includes base pay and variable incentive pay programs. This supports a pay-for-performance culture, recognizing both individual and company performance, as well as benefit programs that are highly attractive and competitive within the markets for which we compete for talent.

• The Company's Global Remote Work Policy allows eligible* employees the option to work up to two or three days a week from home with manager approval.
• Savings (401k) Plan with Company Match
• Retirement (Pension) Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Educational Assistance
• Choice of Preferred Provider or Consumer Driven Medical Plan including Prescription Drug Coverage
• Dental, Vision and Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life, AD&D and LTD Insurance

*Eligibility for certain benefits and rewards programs will vary based on job status, work location and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement and may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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