Koch Industries

Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer/Specialist

Koch Industries$110K — $140K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years experience in troubleshooting and maintaining rotating equipment in industrial environments.
  • Knowledge of reliability, maintenance, and engineering principles like RCA and PdM.
  • Familiarity with rotating equipment: pumps, turbines, compressors, etc.
  • Experience collaborating with maintenance, operations, and engineering teams.
  • Willingness to travel for professional development and audits.

Responsibilities

  • Lead troubleshooting and diagnostics for equipment issues with multiple teams.
  • Provide technical support for predictive maintenance and lubrication best practices.
  • Make technical recommendations to various teams based on analysis.
  • Support defect diagnosis using equipment health data from various monitoring systems.
  • Own rotating equipment work order scopes and small project upgrades.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plans and paid vacation.
  • Educational assistance and family support benefits like parental leave.
Full Job Description
Your Job

The Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer/Specialist is as a key member of the Machinery Reliability Technical Group supporting the site's vision of being the most competitive refinery in North America. This role focuses on improving the reliability and performance of critical rotating equipment (pumps, compressors, and turbines) through a combination of hands-on troubleshooting, engineering analysis, and reliability strategy development.

This position is ideal for individuals with either strong mechanical maintenance experience or engineering experience who want to expand their impact in equipment reliability and defect elimination.

What You Will Do

  • Lead troubleshoot and diagnosing efforts in collaboration with other work groups (including maintenance, operations, monitoring, engineering, and external resources as needed) to help develop a proactive path forward for equipment issues including equipment upgrade, troubleshooting, maintenance rebuild and repair scopes.
  • Provide technical support to both operations and maintenance personnel around machinery programs including predictive (PdM) maintenance, lubrication, alignment, and precision repair practices involving machinery specs/standards.
  • Provide recommendations to MRTG, the production team, process business teams, and maintenance organization based on sound technical analysis and best practices.
  • Support equipment monitoring, troubleshooting, and defect diagnosis through use of process and equipment health data from multiple sources including:
    • Portable, wireless, and continuous vibration monitoring systems
    • Process and equipment performance monitoring instrumentation
  • Area ownership of rotating equipment work order scopes, cases, and small project upgrade recommendations


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • One year or more experience troubleshooting, maintaining, or improving rotating equipment in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment
  • Experience with applying reliability, maintenance, or engineering principles (RCA, PdM, preventative maintenance, repair practices).
  • Working knowledge of rotating equipment such as pumps, steam turbines, compressors, gearboxes, electric motors, etc.
  • Demonstrated experience participating across maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to solve problems and implement solutions
  • Ability to travel for technical development, professional development, conferences, factory acceptance testing, and 3 rd party shop audits


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field
  • Experience in rotating equipment reliability engineering or maintenance within a refining or heavy industrial field
  • ISO Vibration Analyst certification (Category I, II, or higher)
  • International Council for Machinery Lubrication MLT/MLA Certifications
  • Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
  • Experience working with additional predictive/ technologies (motion amplification, oil analysis, ultrasonic, thermography)
  • Hands on experience with Installation, rebuilds, alignment, or repair of rotating equipment


For this role, we anticipate paying $ 110,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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.

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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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