Reliability Engineer

What's the role
Shell is seeking a Reliability Engineer for a position in Michigan City.
Accountabilities:
Act as a champion of reliability within the asset, coaching and influencing at all levels to increase focus on understanding and eliminating root causes of unreliability.

Provide support and conduct risk assessments as needed. Facilitate learning from repetitive failures and reliability events. Perform Deep Dives on equipment and processes based on performance, risk, criticality. Techniques to employ here include FMEA and Fault Tree.

Act as the custodian to implement and execute the (Managing Threats & Opportunities) MTO process, providing support and coaching to the production teams in threat (and opportunity) identification, ranking, investigation, and close-out. Maintain the MTO database.

Support the Investigation process by facilitating reliability investigations. Champion efforts to grow causal learning use at the site.

Analyze Plant reliability performance data (production losses) utilizing reliability engineering tools (FMEA, reliability modelling, Weibull analysis) and provide reliability data to site personnel (for project forms, asset master planning, risk assessments, reliability reviews) to identify and understand threats to reliability and availability. Apply RCA techniques to understanding and eliminating those threats.

Assure Reliability Metrics are compiled and data communicated to the site - including site leadership, production teams, and run and maintain organization. Provide updates to Leadership Team on big hit items closure status and mitigation of other reliability threats.

Initiate and progress any changes (PM routines, procedural/process changes) through the MOC process as required to improve reliability performance.

Link between the Production teams and Maintenance attendance/participation in routine run and maintain meetings to ensure Preventative Maintenance (PM's), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), and other aspects of reliability are represented.

Act as custodian of the Manage Equipment Care (MEC) process. Maintain schedule for maintenance strategy reviews and conduct the review based on Risk & Reliability Management principles with tools such as PM Optimization (PMO), REM strategy reviews, RCM and PM Library where applicable. Implement condition-based maintenance (CBM) approach and condition monitoring (CM) strategies where appropriate.

Facilitate Root Cause Analysis or Causal Learning Investigations as necessary to support reliability improvements. Act as the asset Subject Matter Expert for RCA methodologies, particularly 5-Why and Causal Learning, and provide coaching across the asset in application of the methods.

Ensure that the right events are investigated - be the Production team conscience.

Facilitate/participate in sidebars after the routine run and maintain meetings to help create clarity and ensure Reliability is in the picture.

Facilitate periodic reviews on critical spares, min/max inventory levels, Material Master coding and support on list of materials creation and upload into Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

Provide engineering support to operations as required, including assistance with troubleshooting and process management (MOC, MTO).

Helping link the different facets of Reliability (MTO, PM, RCM, Bad Actors lists) into one strategy.

Leader and individual contributor to safe and environmentally sound facility operations. Identify training needs and resources to support this effort. Comply with plant and regulatory HSSE requirements and receive required HSSE training. Respond to hazards by reducing risks, reporting incidents and participating in root cause analyses.
Accountable for ensuring specific HSSE critical equipment is inspected and maintained on a regular basis.

Accountable for HSSE requirements when leading any project and responsible for the HSSE of any contractor employees performing work on those projects.

Apply the following systems: Permit to Work; Energy Isolation, Working in Heights, Hot Work, Confined Space Entry.

Initiate and follow the Management of Change process.

Follow all HSSE standards and lead by example. Intervene with all employees/contractors onsite when at-risk behaviours/conditions exist.

Knowledgeable in Emergency Response.

What you bring
Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related engineering discipline.

Minimum of 3 years relevant experience.

Preferably has a knowledge of the following:
Reliability and Maintenance engineering principles.

Applications (Pareto analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Reliability Block Diagram, Causal Learning Investigation techniques - level 1&2, Fault Tree Analysis, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Weibull/Crow-AMSSA, MTO, MEC, RCM, DEP's, API).

What we offer
The base salary range for this position is $101,000 - $151,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.
For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.
Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such as financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives.
You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and life experiences to apply.

Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in and international teams.

Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here .
Shell in The United States
Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years, leading the sector in energy, petrochemicals and refined products. Today, we provide millions of Americans with the energy needed to heat and cool their homes and power the economy.
We operate in all 50 states, from our Deep Water platforms in the Gulf of America to the Pennsylvania Chemicals complex and our miles of pipelines throughout the US.
We reach our customers through our 13,000 branded retail stations, and we are number 1 in gasoline sales. We also own the #1 brand of motor oil in the U.S. – Pennzoil – made from natural gas.
We are excited to play a key role in the move to net carbon emissions while providing the oil and gas needed by society for many decades to come.

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