Reliability Engineer

Evonik; Chester (Delaware County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

SmartWork

Job summary

Evonik is seeking an experienced engineer to provide organization, planning, and direction for plant equipment reliability. The role focuses on implementing technical changes, maintaining compliance documentation, and reducing maintenance costs through data analysis.

The candidate will support process troubleshooting and cost/availability objectives, with emphasis on complex plant maintenance tasks. The position demands 5-10 years of chemical process experience, a relevant engineering degree,

Qualifications

• Engineering degree and broad-based skills in engineering and maintenance.
• 5-10 years of extensive progressive chemical process and plant experience.
• Software knowledge includes SAP CMMS, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Teams and PowerBI.

Responsibilities

• Perform failure and root cause analysis and make technical recommendations for repairs and replacements considering economics and plant availability risks.
• Provide daily technical support for equipment and process problems. Initiate, plan and implement long term corrective actions to improve the process and plant reliability.
• Supervisory support of maintenance team on a daily basis.
• Ensure regulatory compliance for preventative maintenance of plant equipment and maintenance processes.
• Maintain the mechanical integrity program for all related devices and equipment including in SAP.
• Support Management of Change process and documentation records.
• Plan and participate in the budgeting process for maintenance and outages.
• Leads maintenance team on plant equipment reliability issues and resolution.
• Maintain SAP, spare parts, mechanical integrity, and maintenance quality management systems.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Maintenance planning

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

MS Excel

SAP CMMS

MS Teams

MS PowerBI

Aspen Manufacturing Suite

Job description

What We Offer

Explore a world of opportunities with us. Look ahead with us and help shape innovative solutions to make our world more sustainable and life healthier, more vibrant and more comfortable. At Evonik, you have the chance to explore, thrive, and grow alongside 33,000 colleagues. Among attractive career paths and high-quality development programs, we not only offer performance-based remuneration and occupational health benefits but also hybrid and flexible working environments with #SmartWork. Bring your fresh perspective, develop your strengths, break out your mold, and find a career that fits your dreams with us.

What We Offer

Explore a world of opportunities with us. Look ahead with us and help shape innovative solutions to make our world more sustainable and life healthier, more vibrant and more comfortable. At Evonik, you have the chance to explore, thrive, and grow alongside 33,000 colleagues. Among attractive career paths and high-quality development programs, we not only offer performance-based remuneration and occupational health benefits but also hybrid and flexible working environments with #SmartWork. Bring your fresh perspective, develop your strengths, break out your mold, and find a career that fits your dreams with us.

This position provides organization, planning, and direction for the reliability of plant equipment. This position provides the implementation of technical changes/improvements and maintains technical & regulation compliance documentation for a production plant. The position provides the technical expertise to maintain and continuously improve the technical availability of the plant as well as work to reduce maintenance costs through statistical review and root cause analysis. Additional duties include process troubleshooting/process improvement assignments to support the cost and plant availability objectives. This position requires a seasoned engineer capable of complex process and maintenance assignments.

Responsibilities

• Perform failure and root cause analysis and make technical recommendations for repairs and replacements considering economics and plant availability risks.
• Provide daily technical support for equipment and process problems. Initiate, plan and implement long term corrective actions to improve the process and plant reliability.
• Supervisory support of maintenance team on a daily basis.
• Ensure regulatory compliance for preventative maintenance of plant equipment and maintenance processes. Ensure adherence to the Evonik GPS-PT documents for the maintenance department.

• Maintain the mechanical integrity program for all related devices and equipment including in SAP. Maintain records on safety devices, including PSV book with inspection, testing, & calculation methods.
• Support Management of Change process and documentation records.
• Ensure compliance with corporate and OSHA requirements for maintenance contractors performing activities in the plant. Support the Contractor Safety Program.
• Plan and participate in the budgeting process for maintenance. Prepare outage schedules, shutdown work list and support daily scheduling activities with job.
• Leads maintenance team on plant equipment reliability issues and resolution.
• Maintains management systems including SAP, spare parts, mechanical integrity, maintenance quality management. Ensure maintenance processes adhere to the Evonik binding technical documents.
• Scope and execute capital projects to support the plant goals and initiatives.
• Provide plant specific technical expertise on the application of equipment innovations/developments and on state-of-the-art maintenance techniques.

Requirements

• This is an experienced engineering position. Candidates for this role must possess broad-based skills in engineering and maintenance as well as in planning and organizing.
• An Engineering degree with 5-10 years of extensive progressive chemical process and plant experience is necessary for this position.
• Theoretical technical knowledge combined with analytical thinking as well as the practical experience to solve problems in the process, in maintenance and in technical project work.
• Software knowledge: MS Excel, MSWord and SAP (or related CMMS experience), MS Teams, MS PowerBI, Aspen Manufacturing Suite.

The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.