Mechanical Reliability Engineer

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources is looking to hire a Mechanical/Reliability Engineer at our Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount, MN. The Mechanical/Reliability Engineer has accountability to the health, performance and availability of the assets in their defined area. This is a key role in the refinery that will work with many disciplines, primarily: Operations, Process, Project Management, Construction Services, and Reliability. This role is an excellent opportunity to increase leadership skills and collaboration while learning and leveraging business management and reliability skills.

Our Team

The Mechanical/Reliability Engineer is a core team member of the Asset Management organization. This team exists to excel in and transform the ways we maintain, improve and restore asset availability.

What You Will Do

Work with a team that has diverse knowledge focused on optimizing cost, availability, and risk within KII Risk Profile and Stewardship FrameworkUnderstand and provide context for how a given asset creates value for the business and ensure our reliability strategies and decisions reflect that valueDevelop and implement equipment reliability strategiesSet appropriate turnaround work scope for equipment while optimizing cost, availability, and riskPerform root cause failure analysis to understand equipment failures and update equipment strategies as appropriateAssist in complex critical equipment troubleshooting and aligning on scope of repairLead change through MOC process ensuring process safety objectives are metAnalyze maintenance and capital spending against investment strategies and benchmarksAct as project manager on select reliability and business improvement projectsSome overtime may be required, which might include nights, weekends and holidays during turnarounds and outagesAble to climb structures and inspect equipment both at high elevations and in confined spaces

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering AND three (3) years or more of industrial experience in refining, energy, chemical or related fields OR Four (4) years or more of industrial experience in refining, energy, chemical or related fieldsKnowledge and understanding of equipment reliability engineering with ability to troubleshoot and diagnoseExperience framing opportunities and advancing initiatives

What Will Put You Ahead

Ten (10) years or more industrial experience in refining, energy, and/or chemical sectorsBachelor’s degree in Chemical or Mechanical EngineeringExperience with construction management, field execution, and craft coordinationExperience in project development, economic thinking, and marginal analysis

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products through 4,000+ miles of pipeline – delivering energy to farmers, manufacturers and families. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.

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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 visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf