Rotating Reliability Engineer

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP; Hopewell (VA); In loco; USD 90.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

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Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) match

Descrizione del lavoro

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP in Hopewell, VA seeks a Rotating Reliability Engineer to own reliability strategies for pumps, gearboxes, and other rotating equipment. You will lead condition-monitoring programs, RCA investigations, and optimization of preventive maintenance with cross-functional teams.

Requires 5-10 years in rotating reliability engineering and a mechanical/technical degree. Certification in vibration (Cat Lvl 3) and RCA training are preferred. Comprehensive benefits offered.

Competenze

• 5–10 years in rotating reliability engineering experience.
• Mechanical engineering degree or technical degree.
• Vibration Cat Lvl 3 certification.
• RCA Training and Coordination.

Mansioni

• Define and own reliability strategies for rotating equipment.
• Lead or support RCAs for significant or repetitive failures.
• Develop asset criticality and lifecycle plans.
• Coordinate cross‑functional improvement with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering.
• Track rotating‑equipment KPIs and sustainment requirements.

Conoscenze

Rotating equipment

Reliability engineering

Vibration analysis

RCA training

Formazione

Mechanical engineering degree

Technical degree

Strumenti

Vibration Cat Lvl 3

Descrizione del lavoro

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP Rotating Reliability Engineer Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us. Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Rotating Reliability Engineer to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty Ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Maintenance function. This position will report to the Maintenance Manager.

Responsibilities (Key Duties)

• Rotating Equipment Strategy Owner Create and own reliability strategies for pumps, compressors, gearboxes, centrifuges, agitators, fans, blowers, and seals
• Develop asset criticality
• Define repair-versus-replace recommendations and lifecycle plans
• Maintain equipment standards, preferred designs, and application guidance
• Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Leader Lead vibration, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, oiling, and performance-monitoring programs
• Set monitoring routes, alarm limits, collection frequencies, and escalation criteria
• Review condition-monitoring findings and convert them into prioritized actions
• Ensure monitoring technologies are matched to equipment failure modes
• Defect Elimination & Root Cause Leader Lead or support RCAs for significant or repetitive rotating-equipment failures
• Analyze failure history, repair records, vibration data, and operating conditions
• Identify physical, human, and system causes and develop sustainable countermeasures
• Track corrective actions and verify effectiveness after implementation
• Bad Actor & Reliability Improvement Manager Maintain a ranked bad-actor list using downtime, cost, frequency, risk, and production impact
• Build business cases for reliability improvements and equipment upgrades
• Facilitate cross-functional improvement plans with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Supply Chain
• Quantify benefits and sustainment requirements for completed improvements
• Maintenance Strategy & Work Quality Partner Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance tasks using failure modes and equipment history
• Provide technical scope for inspections, repairs, overhauls, precision installation, alignment, and balancing
• Review repair quality, tolerance documentation, and post-maintenance acceptance data
• Partner with planners, supervisors, technicians, and vendors on complex rotating-equipment work
• Troubleshooting & Technical Response Engineer Provide field response for equipment vibration, seal leakage, bearing temperature, lubrication, and performance issues
• Integrate process conditions with mechanical data during troubleshooting
• Define safe operating limits, temporary controls, and escalation needs with appropriate stakeholders
• Communicate technical findings, risk, and recommended actions clearly
• Turnaround, Outage & Project Reliability Support Define rotating-equipment inspection and overhaul scopes for outages and turnarounds
• Identify critical spares, special tools, vendor support, and quality checkpoints
• Support equipment commissioning, startup readiness, and post-startup monitoring
• Provide reliability input to capital projects, MOC reviews, design reviews, and PSSRs
• Reliability Data, Standards & Capability Developer Maintain accurate equipment histories, failure coding, technical files, and reliability dashboards
• Track rotating-equipment KPIs and communicate trends, risks, and priorities
• Develop technical standards, troubleshooting guides, and training for site personnel
• Support spare-parts strategies and vendor performance reviews for critical equipment
• Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals, and focusing on performance and safety
• Improve the organization's capacity and capabilities through building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent and utilizing positive communications and influence with others

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in Rotating Reliability Engineering experience
• Mechanical Engineering Degree or technical degree
• Vibration Cat Lvl 3 certification
• RCA Training and Coordination
• Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior at all times

Perks of working at Ashland

• Comprehensive Benefit package, Medical, Dental and Vision starting on Day 1 for you AND your family 401(k) plan with company match

About Ashland

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow.

Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical.

Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued.

People come to Ashland and stay.

As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization.

Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company.

If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Infinite possibilities Creating good chemistry isn’t just about what happens when you add the right ingredients together. It’s about what happens when the right people are one of the ingredients. Good chemistry – the kind that can transform a market or a world – is what makes Ashland different and what makes us better. If you’re passionate about the infinite possibilities created through good chemistry, we have a rewarding and challenging opportunity for you to help us make great things happen every day for our customers, our communities, our investors and our colleagues around the world.