BASF

Senior Reliability Engineer

BASF

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Palmyra • Montana • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Providing reliability support to the site by implementing and driving reliability programs
  • Offering guidance and details for repair, maintenance, and inspection activities
  • Utilizing tools such as RBI (Risk-Based Inspections), FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), and other reliability-based maintenance engineering principles and practices
  • Ensuring that all reliability-related activities comply with the company’s Responsible Care Management System and all statutory regulations
  • Applying appropriate reliability tools to drive improvements, optimize costs, and enhance Asset Effectiveness (e.g., Bad Actor Program, FMEA, RBI, RBM, RCM/Criticality Analysis, RCFA, etc.)
  • Maintaining site programs for Mechanical Integrity, including Pressure Vessels, Tanks, Heat Exchangers, Piping Inspections, Relief Devices, and Flame Arrestors
  • Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics for the proactive identification and resolution of reliability issues
  • Supporting capital projects by providing engineering expertise in the specification, design, and construction of projects in accordance with plant design requirements
  • Designing maintenance strategies, procedures, inspection plans, and methods

Requirements

  • Possess a Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering/Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
  • Have a bachelor’s degree and 6 or more years’ experience within a manufacturing or engineering role with technical knowledge of instrumentation and mechanical equipment; OR have a master’s degree and 4 or more years’ experience within a manufacturing or engineering role with technical knowledge of instrumentation and mechanical equipment.
  • Have strong troubleshooting and diagnosis capability within operations and maintenance teams.
  • Have strong interpersonal skills.
  • Possess knowledge of Reliability Management tools such as maintenance strategies, inspection strategies, Bad Actor Program, FMEA, RBI, RBM, RCFA, EPAC.
  • Have ability to develop and maintain metrics to measure reliability and efficiency of equipment, also applying digital tools (e.g. Power BI).
Benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
  • Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
  • Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
  • Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
  • Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
  • Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
  • Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
  • Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
  • Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Reliability EngineeringTroubleshootingDiagnosisMechanical IntegrityMaintenance StrategiesInspection StrategiesAsset EffectivenessKey Performance IndicatorsDigital ToolsEngineering Expertise
Soft skills
Interpersonal Skills