Koch Industries

Reliability Engineer

Koch Industries$95K — $115K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field with 5+ years of reliability engineering experience, or 10+ years of equivalent proficiency.
  • Experience with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Responsibilities

  • Lead root cause analyses for high impact equipment failures and recommend corrective actions.
  • Collect and analyze reliability metrics to identify equipment issues.
  • Develop and implement reliability enhancement programs.
  • Support preventive and proactive maintenance activities for critical assets.
  • Conduct fitness-for-service (FFS) and risk-based inspection (RBI) analyses to ensure compliance with industry standards.
  • Assist in capital project scopes, materials selection, design reviews, and construction oversight.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address equipment-related challenges.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
  • Disability insurance and retirement plans.
  • Paid vacation and time off.
  • Educational assistance and support for infertility, parental leave, and adoption.
  • Focus on overall employee wellness and work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Methanol St James is currently seeking a motivated Reliability Engineer to join the Reliability team. This role creates significant value for the site by ensuring the reliability, integrity, and safety of all assets in our facility.

What You Will Do

  • Lead root cause analyses to identify the underlying causes of high impact equipment failures and recommend corrective actions to the site leadership team
  • Collect and analyze reliability metrics to identify bad actors
  • Develop and implement reliability programs to eliminate fixed equipment threats
  • Support preventive and proactive maintenance planning activities for critical assets
  • Conduct fitness-for-service (FFS) and risk-based inspection (RBI) analysis to ensure equipment is operated in compliance with industry standards and regulations
  • Support capital projects related to fixed equipment, including scope development, materials selection, engineering design review, and construction oversight
  • Serve on cross site tech teams to ensure Koch's internal fixed equipment engineering practices are competitive and up to date with industry practices
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including maintenance, operations, and other engineering disciplines to identify and address equipment-related challenges


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field with at least 5 years of reliability engineering experience, or a minimum of 10 years of reliability or industrial manufacturing experience providing equivalent technical proficiency.
  • Experience in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)


Physical Requirements
  • Ability to wear PPE in designated areas.
  • Ability to climb up to 150 ft on occasion


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience with maintenance/reliability associated with medium/high pressure steam turbines
  • Relevant certifications such as API 510, API 570, API 653, API 610, API 580, and API 581 are desirable
  • Proficiency in using reliability software and tools for data analysis and predictive maintenance
  • Experience with inspection techniques, NDE methods, and fitness-for-service assessments
  • Knowledge of industry codes and standards such as ASME, API, and ANSI
  • Experience in reliability engineering in an industrial manufacturing industry


This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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