Rotating Equipment Specialist

Your Job

Koch Methanol, LLC. is now hiring for a Rotating Equipment Specialist for our Methanol production facility in St. James, LA. The Rotating Equipment Specialist will assist in the development of a structured work plan to ensure efficient and effective deployment of available resources. Working with reliability resources to the improvement of craft and machinery specific information for the facility to improve our information systems for building future capability. The development of work schedules and plans will help in maintaining and improving machinery up-time by using CMMS systems and other sources of input to effectively utilize available manpower in achieving the facility's up-time goals.

This position works a 9/80 schedule and will occasionally respond to callouts as needed.

Our Team

Our Rotating Equipment Specialists are part of a strong and collaborative team that work together to improve Maintenance/Craftsman/Operator productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating delays by promoting PBM culture, leading effective job planning, enhancing reliability, and prioritizing safety. This position will support operations, daily maintenance, projects, outages, and turnarounds when needed. Reliability is a key component in the success of St James Methanol and solid maintenance personnel is essential for consistent operations.

What You Will Do

• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues around rotating equipment
• Apply economic thinking to lead capital and expense reliability initiatives while collaborating with operations, maintenance, reliability, and project engineering
• Collaborate with plant leadership to identify and implement reliability improvements specific to rotating equipment to include turbines, compressors, pumps, and other critical high value rotating equipment
• Develop and oversee (QA/QC) execution of the scope of work for maintenance outages and turnarounds
• Promote a proactive approach to site reliability using available predictive maintenance software and vibration monitoring

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years experience working at/with chemical manufacturing facilities in a rotating reliability capacity
• Experience with CMMS operating systems or similar (IMDS/MAXIMO/SAP/Etc.)
• Rotating equipment mechanical maintenance repair experience and/or mechanical maintenance planning experience on rotating equipment, pumps, turbines, compressors, fans, precision measuring tools, alignment, and associated procedures
• Experience analyzing vibration data and using vibration data to predict future equipment failures

What Will Put You Ahead

• 5+ years reliability engineering or 10+ years rotating reliability or maintenance experience in an industrial environment
• Experience with Mechanical Integrity Programs
• Knowledgeable of relevant API codes (API 610, 617, etc..)
• Knowledgeable of high/medium pressure steam turbines
• Certified in predictive and preventive maintenance activities
• Experience building programs and maintaining information in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with MAXIMO
• Experience with System One vibration monitoring and analysis
• Experience planning Rotating Equipment maintenance activities

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.

Who We Are

As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Methanol produces and supplies the methanol that has become an essential part of our daily lives - and is a key ingredient in products like clothing, cosmetics, paints, plywood and adhesives - in addition to fueling ships, buses, trucks, fuel cells and cooking stoves. Our goal is to be the preferred supplier of methanol to our customers who depend on us for our reliability and quality of service.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).