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Reliability Engineer
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Opportunity Snapshot

In this key impact role, you'll fill an important need by taking control of the vibration and oil data analysis for our rotating equipment. It's a new function that you'll enjoy building from the ground up, creating a program, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting the data and presenting it to management. You'll have front line access to information that could lead to significant cost savings for the plant. Quick question for you - click here Find success and you can open multiple doors of opportunity within FMC and the highly prized reliability field, or a related discipline.

FMC Corporation is one of North America's largest producers of Hydrogen Peroxide. Our Engineering Services division has provided solutions to Hydrogen Peroxide storage and handling challenges for nearly 50 years. Our innovative use of pre-designed and customer-designed Hydrogen Peroxide storage and handling systems enables customers to safely store bulk quantities of Hydrogen Peroxide, and our extensive inventory of tanks and trial metering units also provide customers with cost effective trial support equipment as well as alternatives for low-cost permanent installations. FMC's sister manufacturing plants in Bayport, TX and Prince George, British Columbia, have a combined annual installed capacity of 380 million pounds.

 

The Requirements

To be successful in this position you will have:
  • A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • At least five years of manufacturing experience in the chemical or refining industries.
  • Three or more years working directly with rotating equipment.
  • Knowledge of rotating equipment maintenance and troubleshooting.
  • Three to five years of experience in vibration analysis.
  • Three to five years of experience in oil analysis. Level I or higher certification is preferred.
  • Knowledge and three to five years of experience in reliability principles and techniques. CMRP certification is preferred.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; some managerial experience would be a plus.

The Role

In this position you'll work within the Maintenance Department to improve plant safety, reliability, efficiency, and the quality of plant operations. As Reliability Engineer, you'll be responsible for troubleshooting day-to-day equipment operations, developing the systems and measurements necessary to improve equipment on-stream time and availability. Quick question for you - click here Your focus will be on rotating equipment including centrifugal pumps, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors and steam turbines. You'll be responsible for maintaining and updating the Mechanical Integrity Program, and determining and maintaining the proper critical equipment spare parts.

Specifically you will:
  • Lead the plant Reliability Centered Manufacturing (RCM) program as a cornerstone of the reliability efforts, insuring the prompt follow-up of all findings.
  • Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) reviews of all equipment failures, and develop a long range capital plan for the replacement of equipment.
  • Assume responsibility for the day-to-day monitoring and performance of plant rotating equipment, implementing reliability and efficiency upgrades, conducting performance tests and troubleshooting issues relating to the rotating equipment.
  • Develop and maintain predictive and preventative maintenance (PM) programs for process equipment using condition based monitoring methods like vibration analysis, oil analysis, infra-red and ultrasonics. Quick question for you - click here
  • Establish and maintain the proper PM and spare parts inventories using RCM.
  • Formulate the resources required to ensure that production performance meets the quality assurance specifications needed to meet the identified needs of both internal and external customers.
Your high reaching mission will be to develop and implement the changes necessary to create major cost reduction programs that improve efficiency and reliability, and reduce the overall product costs. To achieve that goal you'll:
  • Assist in the analysis of process variations and recommend corrective actions.
  • Formulate the resources required to plan, develop and implement large scale process equipment improvements that enhance or maintain product quality and production efficiencies, meeting specific customer requirements and production needs.
  • Actively participate and lead as a member of the Manufacturing Excellence network aimed at efforts to improve ME core programs (RCM, 5S, RCFA) and develop metrics to guide and prioritize initiatives.
Once developed and built, you'll communicate and implement best practices between and among plants.

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Why FMC

Challenging impact role with high visibility -- ours is an important but smaller plant. We have 90 employees on site, 15 of whom are long term contractors. While we have a talented team, there is no one here who can analyze vibration data. It's important data and will put you in the unique position of making a cost impact on the organization. Plus, this is your baby. The programs aren't built yet, but with full management support, you'll build, nurture and maintain programs that you need.

Advancement potential --  we believe you could be challenged and grow within the role for years to come, but for our top performers, FMC also has abundant advancement opportunities. For example, you could move up in your department, make a sideways move changing your focus, or, if you're open to relocation, you could pursue a number of reliability focused possibilities throughout our global company.

Stability and innovation -- FMC offers a stable profile: we've been in business 127 years; our company is diversified across agricultural, industrial, and specialty chemicals; and we're active in markets across the globe. However, rather than resting on our laurels, we're continuously trying new ideas and exploring new markets, and this will provide you with a steady stream of new and intriguing challenges.

Growth environment -- our senior leadership recently unveiled a plan for FMC to double in size by 2015 and we have a number of corporate-wide initiatives under way to accomplish that goal. This growth will create opportunities for strong performers.

Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary we offer comprehensive benefits that include all you would expect plus some pleasant surprises, such as retirement savings and 401(k) plans, flexible spending accounts, and more. Benefits go into effect the day you start.
 

More About Your Role

For the last four years the Bayport plant has worked under a process improvement initiative to become safer, implement cost improvements, tighten the effectiveness of teamwork and communication, and continuously maintain manufacturing excellence. We're now putting strong focus on how the plant can become more reliable -- specifically related to maintenance.

As Reliability Engineer, you'll work closely with maintenance technicians and engineers, as well as other functional areas that cross over to reliability. You'll serve as the right hand of the Maintenance Manager, interpreting vibration and oil analysis data, looking for trends, running follow-up tests to confirm a potential problem, and looking for opportunities for improvement. You'll need to build a program, identifying the data you'll need and organizing the program in an effective way. A large amount of your time will be spent on analysis, taking a proactive rather than reactive stance. You must understand and be able to explain the meaning of the data to others. You'll spend half of your day working alone in the plant, looking, listening, putting your hands on, learning and understanding the equipment. The other half will be spent working with the team and analyzing the data.

Keys to Success

The quality of your competencies with rotating equipment, data analysis, and program creation will be key to your success. We have a very specific need and one that is not currently being filled, so we'll look to you for guidance. As such, you'll need to be a leader by influence and credibility rather than power. You'll spend a great deal of time on the production floor, interacting with multiple levels and personnel and working hands-on. You should be a results oriented self-starter who will come in and hit the ground running. You'll work on the equipment with a proactive and preventative mindset.

To be successful you should also be:
  • An action oriented person who drives results.
  • Confident with strong command skills including timely decision making.
  • Innovative and creative in problem solving.
  • Organized and informative in your data analysis.
  • A continual learner both in technical and non-technical areas.

About Us

FMC Corporation is committed to providing employees with ample opportunities to contribute, lead and be recognized as innovators, to look beyond barriers to provide solutions, to be challenged in what they do and to love doing it. FMC is a S&P 500, diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century. As a global leader utilizing advanced technologies and customer-focused research and development, FMC provides innovative and cost-effective solutions to food, agriculture, pharmaceutical, specialty and related industries.

FMC Peroxygens division is a worldwide producer of Hydrogen Peroxide, Persulfates, and Peracetic Acid products with production facilities in the United States, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands and Thailand. These plant locations, along with our state-of-the-art process technology, are key to our low-cost supply network and leading North American market positions.

FMC employs people across a broad range of occupations in locations across the world. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. Employees enjoy competitive compensation, a menu of work/life benefits and opportunities to continue developing their skills and building their career.

FMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV and supports a drug free workplace.

 

 

Opportunity Snapshot

In this key impact role, you'll fill an important need by taking control of the vibration and oil data analysis for our rotating equipment. It's a new function that you'll enjoy building from the ground up, creating a program, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting the data and presenting it to management. You'll have front line access to information that could lead to significant cost savings for the plant. Quick question for you - click here Find success and you can open multiple doors of opportunity within FMC and the highly prized reliability field, or a related discipline.

FMC Corporation is one of North America's largest producers of Hydrogen Peroxide. Our Engineering Services division has provided solutions to Hydrogen Peroxide storage and handling challenges for nearly 50 years. Our innovative use of pre-designed and customer-designed Hydrogen Peroxide storage and handling systems enables customers to safely store bulk quantities of Hydrogen Peroxide, and our extensive inventory of tanks and trial metering units also provide customers with cost effective trial support equipment as well as alternatives for low-cost permanent installations. FMC's sister manufacturing plants in Bayport, TX and Prince George, British Columbia, have a combined annual installed capacity of 380 million pounds.

 

The Requirements

To be successful in this position you will have:
  • A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • At least five years of manufacturing experience in the chemical or refining industries.
  • Three or more years working directly with rotating equipment.
  • Knowledge of rotating equipment maintenance and troubleshooting.
  • Three to five years of experience in vibration analysis.
  • Three to five years of experience in oil analysis. Level I or higher certification is preferred.
  • Knowledge and three to five years of experience in reliability principles and techniques. CMRP certification is preferred.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; some managerial experience would be a plus.

The Role

In this position you'll work within the Maintenance Department to improve plant safety, reliability, efficiency, and the quality of plant operations. As Reliability Engineer, you'll be responsible for troubleshooting day-to-day equipment operations, developing the systems and measurements necessary to improve equipment on-stream time and availability. Quick question for you - click here Your focus will be on rotating equipment including centrifugal pumps, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors and steam turbines. You'll be responsible for maintaining and updating the Mechanical Integrity Program, and determining and maintaining the proper critical equipment spare parts.

Specifically you will:
  • Lead the plant Reliability Centered Manufacturing (RCM) program as a cornerstone of the reliability efforts, insuring the prompt follow-up of all findings.
  • Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) reviews of all equipment failures, and develop a long range capital plan for the replacement of equipment.
  • Assume responsibility for the day-to-day monitoring and performance of plant rotating equipment, implementing reliability and efficiency upgrades, conducting performance tests and troubleshooting issues relating to the rotating equipment.
  • Develop and maintain predictive and preventative maintenance (PM) programs for process equipment using condition based monitoring methods like vibration analysis, oil analysis, infra-red and ultrasonics. Quick question for you - click here
  • Establish and maintain the proper PM and spare parts inventories using RCM.
  • Formulate the resources required to ensure that production performance meets the quality assurance specifications needed to meet the identified needs of both internal and external customers.
Your high reaching mission will be to develop and implement the changes necessary to create major cost reduction programs that improve efficiency and reliability, and reduce the overall product costs. To achieve that goal you'll:
  • Assist in the analysis of process variations and recommend corrective actions.
  • Formulate the resources required to plan, develop and implement large scale process equipment improvements that enhance or maintain product quality and production efficiencies, meeting specific customer requirements and production needs.
  • Actively participate and lead as a member of the Manufacturing Excellence network aimed at efforts to improve ME core programs (RCM, 5S, RCFA) and develop metrics to guide and prioritize initiatives.
Once developed and built, you'll communicate and implement best practices between and among plants.

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Why FMC

Challenging impact role with high visibility -- ours is an important but smaller plant. We have 90 employees on site, 15 of whom are long term contractors. While we have a talented team, there is no one here who can analyze vibration data. It's important data and will put you in the unique position of making a cost impact on the organization. Plus, this is your baby. The programs aren't built yet, but with full management support, you'll build, nurture and maintain programs that you need.

Advancement potential --  we believe you could be challenged and grow within the role for years to come, but for our top performers, FMC also has abundant advancement opportunities. For example, you could move up in your department, make a sideways move changing your focus, or, if you're open to relocation, you could pursue a number of reliability focused possibilities throughout our global company.

Stability and innovation -- FMC offers a stable profile: we've been in business 127 years; our company is diversified across agricultural, industrial, and specialty chemicals; and we're active in markets across the globe. However, rather than resting on our laurels, we're continuously trying new ideas and exploring new markets, and this will provide you with a steady stream of new and intriguing challenges.

Growth environment -- our senior leadership recently unveiled a plan for FMC to double in size by 2015 and we have a number of corporate-wide initiatives under way to accomplish that goal. This growth will create opportunities for strong performers.

Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary we offer comprehensive benefits that include all you would expect plus some pleasant surprises, such as retirement savings and 401(k) plans, flexible spending accounts, and more. Benefits go into effect the day you start.
 

More About Your Role

For the last four years the Bayport plant has worked under a process improvement initiative to become safer, implement cost improvements, tighten the effectiveness of teamwork and communication, and continuously maintain manufacturing excellence. We're now putting strong focus on how the plant can become more reliable -- specifically related to maintenance.

As Reliability Engineer, you'll work closely with maintenance technicians and engineers, as well as other functional areas that cross over to reliability. You'll serve as the right hand of the Maintenance Manager, interpreting vibration and oil analysis data, looking for trends, running follow-up tests to confirm a potential problem, and looking for opportunities for improvement. You'll need to build a program, identifying the data you'll need and organizing the program in an effective way. A large amount of your time will be spent on analysis, taking a proactive rather than reactive stance. You must understand and be able to explain the meaning of the data to others. You'll spend half of your day working alone in the plant, looking, listening, putting your hands on, learning and understanding the equipment. The other half will be spent working with the team and analyzing the data.

Keys to Success

The quality of your competencies with rotating equipment, data analysis, and program creation will be key to your success. We have a very specific need and one that is not currently being filled, so we'll look to you for guidance. As such, you'll need to be a leader by influence and credibility rather than power. You'll spend a great deal of time on the production floor, interacting with multiple levels and personnel and working hands-on. You should be a results oriented self-starter who will come in and hit the ground running. You'll work on the equipment with a proactive and preventative mindset.

To be successful you should also be:
  • An action oriented person who drives results.
  • Confident with strong command skills including timely decision making.
  • Innovative and creative in problem solving.
  • Organized and informative in your data analysis.
  • A continual learner both in technical and non-technical areas.

About Us

FMC Corporation is committed to providing employees with ample opportunities to contribute, lead and be recognized as innovators, to look beyond barriers to provide solutions, to be challenged in what they do and to love doing it. FMC is a S&P 500, diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century. As a global leader utilizing advanced technologies and customer-focused research and development, FMC provides innovative and cost-effective solutions to food, agriculture, pharmaceutical, specialty and related industries.

FMC Peroxygens division is a worldwide producer of Hydrogen Peroxide, Persulfates, and Peracetic Acid products with production facilities in the United States, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands and Thailand. These plant locations, along with our state-of-the-art process technology, are key to our low-cost supply network and leading North American market positions.

FMC employs people across a broad range of occupations in locations across the world. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. Employees enjoy competitive compensation, a menu of work/life benefits and opportunities to continue developing their skills and building their career.

FMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV and supports a drug free workplace.

 

FMC Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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