Senior Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

Nouryon is a globalspecialty chemicals leader. Markets and consumers worldwide rely on ouressential solutions to manufacture everyday productssuch aspersonal carecleaning goods paints and coatings agriculture and food pharmaceuticals and building the dedication of approximately 7650 employees with a shared commitment to our customersbusiness growth safetysustainabilityand innovation has resulted in a consistently strong financial performance. We operate in over 80 countries around the world with a portfolio of industry-leading brands.

Senior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer

At Nouryon our global team takes positive action every day to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer societys needs today and in the future.

We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward champion others and work together to do better. Does that sound like you

About the job

The Senior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer is a key technical leader for mechanical integrity and asset reliability at Nouryons PSM-covered Battleground Facility in La Porte TX. This role focuses on developing and optimizing maintenance and reliability strategies supporting safe and compliant operation of process equipment and driving long-term improvements in asset performance and cost.

The engineer works closely with Operations Maintenance EHS Engineering Projects and external service providers to ensure equipment is designed maintained and operated to meet Nouryon standards for safety reliability and productivity.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports.

In your future role as Senior Maintenance & Reliability Engineer you will

Safety Process Safety & Compliance

• Champion personal and process safety; ensure all maintenance and reliability activities comply with Nouryon EHS standards OSHA PSM EPA RMP and site procedures.
• Support PSM elements linked to maintenance and reliability including Mechanical Integrity (MI) Management of Change (MOC) Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) follow-up Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) and Contractor Management.
• Help ensure inspection testing and preventive maintenance programs meet applicable codes and standards (e.g. API ASME NBIC NFPA) and internal Nouryon requirements.
  
  

Mechanical Integrity & Inspection Programs

• Develop and maintain MI strategies for fixed and rotating equipment (pressure vessels piping tanks relief devices pumps compressors agitators mechanical seals etc.) across multiple units at Battleground.
• Collaborate with API inspectors QA/QC resources and third-party inspection contractors to plan evaluate and disposition inspections NDE and thickness monitoring.
• Define and maintain equipment criticality rankings and damage/corrosion mechanism evaluations to support risk-based inspection (RBI) and risk-based maintenance decisions.
• Ensure inspection and MI findings are translated into actionable work tracked in the CMMS and closed in a timely and compliant manner.
  
  

Reliability Engineering & Asset Strategy

• Lead root cause problem solving (RCPS/RCA) for significant equipment failures recurring issues and unplanned outages; identify and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop refine and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) programs including vibration analysis oil analysis thermography and other condition monitoring methods.
• Analyze equipment performance downtime and cost data to identify bad actors and prioritize reliability improvement initiatives across the site.
• Recommend and help implement design material or equipment changes (e.g. seal upgrades materials of construction equipment standardization) to improve reliability maintainability and lifecycle cost.
  
  

Turnarounds Outages & Projects

• Provide reliability and MI input to unit outages and plant turnarounds including scope development inspection and test planning repair strategies and post-event learning.
• Support capital and expense projects with reliability-focused design review equipment specifications and maintenance strategy development to ensure long-term reliability and compliance with PSM/MI requirements.
• Actively participate in MOC and PSSR processes to evaluate reliability MI and maintainability impacts of changes to equipment and systems.
  
  

Technical Support & Work Management

• Provide advanced technical support to maintenance operations and engineering for complex troubleshooting and repair planning.
• Work with maintenance planners schedulers and supervisors to ensure work orders PM tasks and inspection plans are technically sound properly prioritized and reflected accurately in the CMMS (SAP).
• Maintain and improve equipment master data maintenance plans and technical documentation (drawings P&IDs OEM manuals specifications) for critical assets.
  
  

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

• Serve as a site subject matter expert in maintenance and reliability engineering promoting a strong reliability culture at the Battleground Facility.
• Mentor junior engineers mechanics technicians and inspectors in reliability principles PSM MI requirements and structured troubleshooting.
• Develop and present reports dashboards and insights on reliability performance MI compliance and key equipment risks to site and business leadership.

We believe you bring

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Typically 5 years of maintenance inspection and/or reliability engineering experience in chemical petrochemical refining or similar PSM-covered industrial facilities.
• Demonstrated experience with both fixed and rotating equipment; prior experience in a multi-unit PSM-regulated chemical complex strongly preferred.

Have we got your interest

This is an onsite permanent position on a full-time basis reporting to the Maintenance Manager and based in La Porte TX.

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once its with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process visit:

We look forward to receiving your application!

We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors.

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