Operations Reliability Engineer - Engineering

Headquartered in the U.S., INVISTA is one of the world's largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers, primarily for nylon, spandex, and polyester applications. With a business presence in more than 20 countries, INVISTA delivers exceptional value for its customers through market insights, technology innovations, and a powerful portfolio of global trademarks including Lycra fiber, Coolmax fabric, Cordura fabric, Antron carpet fiber and Stainmaster carpet. We transform daily through innovations. Clothing, carpets, luggage, plastic bottles, automobile interiors and airbags- these and many other products originate in one of INVISTA's global manufacturing facilities. You can be a part of the difference we make by joining the INVISTA team.

As a member of the INVISTA team, you will also be part of Koch Industries, Inc.'s affiliates, one of the largest privately-held companies in the world. Koch companies have a presence in nearly 60 countries and employ about 70,000 people.

OPERATIONS RELIABILITY ENGINEER (Asset Availability Leader)

INVISTA, Victoria is looking for candidates who have the following attributes:

The ability to produce accurate, high quality work in a time-sensitive fast paced environment.
The ability to organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting and/or exceeding deadlines.
Strong communication skills and proven success in communicating effectively with all levels.
Initiative and ability to work independently and as part of a team with a strong sense of urgency.
The ability to motivate, influence and drive good business decisions forward while working with a diverse workforce.
Experience applying problem solving skills with the ability to identify key business drivers and delve into the details
Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with integrity, compliance and in a safe and efficient manner.

JOB RESPONSIBILITES:

Perform a wide variety of engineering tasks to ensure that assets are available and ready to be put to their designed or intended use
Participate in the production planning of a business unit to ensure that resources for reliability engineering programs are being allocated
Prepare and manage the reliability program plans for assigned business units
Evaluate the reliability potential of alternative designs, processes or methods
Ensure that all components in a design will operate/ function as they are designed or intended
Formulate and run tests on systems, subsystems and individual components
Provide information to operations and maintenance on how to improve both the life of a system and its ease of maintenance
Investigate user complaints and reliability losses. Manage programs to ensure that information about reliability loss is timely, accurate, well organized, and communicated
Monitor equipment reliability measures and establish additional measures as needed to insure continued safe and efficient operation
Work with cross-functional teams to conduct reliability centered maintenance analysis on equipment , proactively identify and address issues that can cause work delays and increased job cost
Build working relationships with other parts of the organization to better understand and utilize the resources available to the business
Lead/Determine the best maintenance strategies for the Plant facilities, and initiate design changes to improve equipment reliability, including predictive, preventive and refurbishment tasks required during a Plant outage
Ensure that scopes of work developed for Preventive/Predictive Maintenance (PMs),including reliability improvements, are included in the turnaround planning process
Use Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint ) products in daily activities such as using Excel to create and modify spreadsheets using functions, filters and graphs to analyze data, using PowerPoint to prepare and deliver presentations, including detailed flowcharts, and using Word to create and edit documents and prepare reports and tables
Provide leadership, expertise and guidance to site maintenance, reliability and operations personnel as it pertains to specific area assignment of Chemical Plant
Provides leadership, expertise, and guidance to site personnel as it pertains to contract work items (jobs, manpower, etc.)


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

BS degree in engineering or other technical or academy degree
Minimum of 2 years experience in operations, maintenance, engineering or other technical support (or equivalent military experience)
Experience communicating with various levels of an organization (engineers, supervisors, operators, mechanics, contractors, off-site vendors)
Experience working independently with functional guidance rather than direct assignments
Experience interpreting instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or scheduled form
Experience using Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) to:
Create and modify documents and tables using Word
Create and modify spreadsheets using Excel
Create, prepare and present data using PowerPoint
Must have a valid and current government issued drivers license
Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

Experience using Root Cause Analysis
Experience regarding reliability based maintenance and operations
Experience in a manufacturing site, preferably chemical/refinery plant environment


PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS (with or without reasonable accommodation) AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

Accessing elevated platforms by ladder (includes egress)
Accessing multiple floors of open structures by stairway (includes egress)
Accessing equipment by ladder or stairway
Entering and movement within confined spaces
Entering and movement upon unpaved areas
Operating company vehicles
Manipulating and donning respiratory protective equipment
Donning flammable resistant clothing
Periodic workdays in excess of 8 hours
Periodic outside work in extreme temperatures at various times throughout the year
Must be willing to relocate to the Victoria, TX area

We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V

Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.