Manager, Reliability Engineering

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company; Orange (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Comprehensive benefits package

Alternate work schedules

Job summary

Chevron Phillips Chemical is seeking a Reliability Engineering Manager for the Southeast Texas Chemical Complex in Orange. You will lead the reliability strategy, drive improvements in equipment performance, and manage reliability engineers and specialists to ensure safe, cost-effective operations.

Collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, and Capital Project teams is essential. The role involves failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and lifecycle cost optimization, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required.
• Proven track record managing reliability schedules, planning and cost-controls systems.
• Ability to assess costs, schedule, and prepare forecasts.
• Experience with SAP, scheduling, planning, and cost estimation.
• Ability to manage tasks and reliability tasks across implementation stages.

Responsibilities

• Develops people and manages direct reports.
• Assist in site Reliability budget development and tracking.
• Deploys complex reliability excellence activities and identify value-creation opportunities.
• Ensures strategic development of asset reliability-centered maintenance applications.
• Develops equipment repair procedures and specifications to improve plant reliability and EH&S compliance.
• Evaluates and provides recommendations for Project Management Optimization.
• Directs equipment failure investigations and root-cause analyses to prevent recurrence.
• Leads integration of reliability systems in the Capital Project process; performs lifecycle cost analysis.

Skills

Reliability leadership

Cost controls

Project planning

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

Chevron Phillips Chemical is seeking a Reliability Engineering Manager to join our Southeast Texas Chemical Complex (STCC) manufacturing Polyethylene facility located in Orange, Texas. This role leads the site's reliability strategy to ensure the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of manufacturing assets while providing leadership to reliability engineers and specialists and driving improvements in equipment performance, maintenance effectiveness, and asset availability. Working closely with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, and Capital Project teams, the Reliability Engineering Manager identifies and prioritizes reliability improvement opportunities, develops long-term asset strategies, and leads initiatives that enhance plant performance. The position is responsible for failure analysis, root cause investigations, reliability-centered maintenance, risk reduction, and lifecycle cost optimization to prevent recurring equipment issues and improve asset reliability. The role also supports capital investment decisions through reliability analysis, integration of reliability requirements into projects, and effective management of reliability resources. Above all, the Reliability Engineering Manager champions a culture of safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and people development while strengthening the site's technical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develops people and manages direct reports.
• Assist in site Reliability budget development and tracking.
• Deploys complex reliability excellence activities and identify and prioritize reliability engineering value creation opportunities.
• Ensures the implementation of the strategic development of asset reliability centered maintenance applications.
• Develops equipment repair procedures and specifications necessary to improve plant and equipment reliability and supporting of all EH&S policies and procedures.
• Evaluates and provides recommendations for Project Management Optimization.
• Directs equipment failure investigations and cause analysis into high capex escalations and implement action items to prevent recurrence using Cause Analysis tools.
• Drives the organization to find true root cause and effective mitigations to systematically eliminate bad actors.
• Leads the integration of reliability system in the Capital Project process. Performs economic analysis of capital projects through life cycle cost analysis.
• Communicates capital investment and expense project ideas based on reliability analysis and feedback from operations and other site personnel.
• Manages the analysis of failure mechanisms and failure trends, implementing tools to monitor asset conditions and anticipate failures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Proven track record managing a reliability schedule, planning and cost controls systems
• Ability to assess costs, schedule and plan and prepare cost, schedule, and plan forecasts
• Experience in SAP, scheduling, planning, and cost estimation
• Ability to manage tasks and reliability tasks in various stages of implementation

Preferred Qualifications

• Successfully held small plant Reliability Supervisor/Lead position for minimum of 3 years.
• Detailed knowledge of mechanical standards as applied in petrochemical industry and knowledge of various codes (i.e. API, ASME, ANSI, NFPA).

Chevron Phillips Chemical offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package and at most locations, alternate work schedules.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or marital status.

Travel Requirements: Up to 10%

Eligibility for Relocation: Yes

Closing Date: 11/10/2026

Nearest Major Market: Beaumont
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