Principal Rotating Equipment Engineer

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We are seeking a Rotating Equipment Engineer to join our Americas Operations Machinery team. This role supports troubleshooting maintenance performance improvement and reliability of rotating equipment across Air Products U.S. operating facilities with a primary focus on plants in the La Porte and Baytown Texas area. The preferred working location is La Porte TX and we may also consider highly qualified candidates based near Houston Port Arthur or Beaumont TX. Travel is required to support operations with most travel consisting of daily driving to nearby plants or shops and overnight travel expected to be under 10%.

In this role you will work with a wide variety of rotating machinery including centrifugal reciprocating and screw compressors; steam and gas turbines; expanders; blowers; gearboxes; cooling towers; fin-fans; and pumps including cryogenic pumps. You will support plants across Air Products Americas operations network which includes air separation hydrogen HyCO and helium facilities serving customers across multiple industries.

This is an opportunity to build deep marketable expertise in rotating equipment reliability within complex industrial gas operations. You will gain exposure to equipment systems operating conditions and failure modes that are difficult to find in a single-plant or single-technology environment. For engineers who enjoy troubleshooting field support root cause analysis and practical problem-solving this role offers meaningful technical development and visibility across a broad operating network.

Do you have a passion for safety solving technical problems and improving equipment reliability If you are a mechanical engineer who enjoys working with operations and maintenance teams analyzing machinery performance and helping plants run safely and reliably we invite you to grow with us as we continue to build a sustainable tomorrow together.

Whats In It for You:

At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. Check out some of our benefits below!

• Affordable Medical Dental and Vision Insurance (day 1 of employment)
• 401k with 100% vested company core and match
• Paid Vacation holidays sick time
• Paid Parental leave (Up to 8 weeks)
• Backup Child and Adult Care benefit
• Adoption assistance
• Flexible spending accounts (medical dependent daycare)
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance (AD&D- Paid for by Air Products) Supplemental AD&D
• Legal Plan & Identity theft coverage
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Many more supplemental benefits available

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Support troubleshooting of rotating equipment issues and failures including reviewing operating trends helping define inspection scopes contributing to repair plans and supporting long-term reliability improvements.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) failure analysis and corrective action planning for machinery reliability events.
• Provide technical support during overhauls turnarounds outages inspections and repair activities for rotating machinery.
• Support reliability and efficiency improvement initiatives including equipment performance monitoring preventive maintenance predictive maintenance and condition monitoring activities.
• Work with operations maintenance engineering and vendor teams to evaluate machinery performance and recommend improvements.
• Support re-rating optimization and reliability upgrades of existing machinery to meet changing plant needs.
• Assist with troubleshooting and reliability support for compressors turbines expanders blowers gearboxes pumps cryogenic pumps cooling towers fin-fans and associated auxiliary systems.
• Document findings communicate recommendations clearly and help translate technical issues into actionable plans for plant teams.
• Build technical capability over time through field exposure collaboration with experienced machinery engineers and participation in reliability improvement work across the operating network.
• Contribute to a safety-first culture by following site requirements supporting safe work practices and considering process safety and equipment reliability in technical recommendations.

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Working knowledge of rotating equipment such as compressors pumps turbines expanders blowers gearboxes and associated systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot mechanical equipment issues using operating data inspection findings maintenance history and field observations.
• Familiarity with vibration analysis condition monitoring failure analysis preventive maintenance predictive maintenance or reliability engineering practices.
• Ability to support root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to practical corrective actions.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and interest in hands-on plant shop and field troubleshooting.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain technical findings to operations maintenance and engineering stakeholders.
• Strong organizational planning collaboration and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently while also contributing in a team-based plant support environment.
• Experience with hydrogen compression HyCO air separation units process compressors cryogenic pumps API 610 pumps API 617 compressors rotor dynamics PSM FMEA or reliability-centered maintenance is a plus.
• TWIC card PE license CMRP CRE or vibration analysis certification is a plus.

Minimum Hiring Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting troubleshooting maintaining designing or improving rotating equipment in an industrial manufacturing refining chemical petrochemical LNG power generation industrial gas OEM or related environment.
• Experience with rotating equipment such as compressors pumps turbines blowers expanders gearboxes or auxiliary systems.
• Ability to support plant shop and field-based work as needed.

Work Schedule & Environment

• The preferred working location is La Porte TX; however we may consider allowing highly qualified candidates to be based out of Houston Port Arthur or Beaumont TX.
• Travel is required to support operations. Most travel will be daily driving to plants or shops within the La Porte and Baytown area with overnight or week-long travel occurring approximately 2 to 3 times per year. Turnaround support could extend up to a few weeks but would not typically require overnight stay. Travel requiring overnight stay is expected to be under 10%.
• Work is conducted in industrial plant environments shops and office settings.
• Typical hours are Monday through Friday business hours with flexibility based on time spent in offices plants and shops. Occasional after-hours support will be required.
• This is a full-time salaried position.
• This role offers a path toward increased technical scope broader plant responsibility and opportunities to influence machinery reliability strategy across the Americas. For those interested there may also be opportunities to pursue people leadership roles over time.

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