Corporate Reliability Engineer

About the position

Founded in 1983 by principal shareholder William I. Koch, Oxbow is one of the world's largest recyclers of refinery and natural gas coproducts. Oxbow is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida with approximately 950 employees operating from more than 30 locations in 14 countries worldwide. Oxbow is a world leader in the production and distribution of calcined petroleum coke and the distribution of fuel grade petroleum coke. Oxbow also provides bulk storage and handling for petroleum coke and other commodities. Oxbow's scale, expertise and leading market positions have allowed it to create a powerful global sourcing platform with superior market intelligence and longstanding relationships with many of its key suppliers and customers. Oxbow's products are essential in the production of aluminum, steel, glass and cement and our specialty products are used in variety of innovative products, including high performance plastics, solar panels, electronics and batteries. Oxbow is annually ranked by Forbes as one of the top 500 privately held U.S. companies. Our success as a company and industry leader comes from a winning combination of teamwork, innovative uses of technology, and our talented employees. Oxbow Calcining LLC is currently looking for a Reliability Engineer to join our team in the Texas office. This position will be responsible to directly support Oxbow Calcining Plants to achieve the highest levels of Overall Equipment Efficiency resulting in maximum production and the lowest possible utilities and maintenance expense.

Responsibilities

• Leads efficiency functions for the plants in support of injury and incident free operations.
• Includes development & implementation of standard processes, procedures & work instructions.
• Analysis of equipment, equipment application, failure analysis, management & maintenance practices, organizational capability and training.
• Tracks and reports reliability and efficiency metrics.
• Optimizes use of the computerized maintenance management system.
• Develops and implements preventive/predictive maintenance programs.
• Responsible for workforce development, including supervisor skills enhancement, maintenance skills, technical and troubleshooting, and other training.
• Implementation of reliability and efficiency processes and documentation standards.
• Audits processes to ensure integrity and congruence with other practices and facility activities.
• Support Capital and Expense projects using reliability and maintenance centered approaches.
• Supports continual improvement as well as ongoing routine group activities.
• Collaborate with the plants about the specification of new equipment, assuring Reliability of Operation and the lowest life cycle cost.
• Leads efforts to identify and implement emerging technologies that improve reliability.
• Supports management with special projects and workflow process improvements and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering required.
• Five (5) years of experience in heavy industrial/heavy manufacturing maintenance.
• In depth knowledge of the calcining process or Portland cement manufacturing preferred.
• Prefer experience with rotary kilns, bulk handling systems and mobile equipment, gas fired furnaces, DCS (distributed control systems) with an increasing level of responsibility; or an equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiar with NDT and Condition Monitoring techniques and their inspection programs.
• Must have mechanical aptitude and ability to understand new concepts and practices and apply those to this facility's operation.
• Must be self-starter requiring very little direction from supervisor.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance
• Generous 401k match and paid time off