Reliability Engineer – Refinery Equipment & Turnarounds

Flint Hills; Rosemount (MN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Flint Hills Resources is seeking a Reliability Engineer for our Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount, MN. You will own equipment reliability within your production area, lead complex troubleshooting, and guide turnarounds with cost, availability, and risk considerations.

Expect afterhours during outages and potential climb inspections. Qualifications include 4+ years in refining/chemicals, maintenance expertise, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• 4+ years refining or chemicals experience.
• Experience with refinery equipment maintenance and repair.
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose refinery equipment failures.
• Experience framing opportunities and advancing improvement initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication with ability to present to stakeholders.
• Experience with construction coordination and on-site execution.

Responsibilities

• Owns maintenance & reliability of equipment within assigned production area
• Lead complex critical equipment troubleshooting and develop/align on scope of repair
• Lead development and alignment of turnaround work scope for unit equipment while optimizing cost, availability, and risk
• Track and forecast maintenance spending for your area
• Lead change through the MOC process, ensuring process safety hazards are identified and changes are clearly documented
• Oversee, audit, and implement equipment reliability strategies
• Perform root cause failure analysis to understand equipment failures and update equipment strategies as appropriate
• Act as project manager on select reliability and business improvement projects
• Some afterhours work may be required, which might include nights, weekends and holidays during turnarounds and outages
• Able to climb structures and inspect equipment both at high elevations and in confined spaces

Skills

Refining/chemicals experience

Refinery equipment maintenance

Troubleshooting/diagnosis

Opportunity framing & improvement

Communication skills

Construction coordination

Project management

Process safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in chemical or mechanical engineering

Job description

Flint Hills Resources is seeking a Reliability Engineer for our Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount, MN. You will own equipment reliability within your production area, lead complex troubleshooting, and guide turnarounds with cost, availability, and risk considerations.

Expect afterhours during outages and potential climb inspections. Qualifications include 4+ years in refining/chemicals, maintenance expertise, and strong communication.