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The Reliability Engineer (RE) provides leadership within Production Teams through long-term problem solving by identifying threats, assessing risk, and collecting and analyzing performance data to drive the Site to a more proactive and generative culture. Focal point for Manage Equipment Care (MEC) process including Life Cycle Cost Analysis. Production unit focal point for Manage Threats and Opportunities (MTO) work process.

Dimensions:

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annual budgets which are either directly controlled or indirectly influenced number of staff directly accountable for other key factors relating to this job

No direct annual budget, however, drives project, TA, and expense budgets by leading the Production Team Reference Plan process to understand risk and ensure that affordable and sustainable mitigations are implemented at a competitive cost. Knowledge of Solomon benchmarking to drive continuous improvement. No regular direct subordinates; mentors new team members and/or PTSE role. Will supervise interns as available and applicable. Responsible for development of competitive and affordable multi-year Capital Budgets of the assigned Production Teams.

What is the role

Accountabilities (Results, Behaviors and Team Growth)

Champions the Manage Equipment Care (MEC) work process by:

• Facilitates the Asset level optimization, benchmarking with similar Assets and development of the Asset spend profile.
• Leads the post outage reviews of the equipment care plans.
• Maintains alignment between the equipment and Asset care plans.
• Facilitates the multi-discipline optimizations of equipment care plans.
• Agrees with the environmental manager the criteria for introducing equipment that will reduce energy usage/emissions. Champions the Manage Threats and Opportunities (MTO) work process to assure:
• Uses Solomon benchmark data to develop discipline gap closure plans.
• Ensures all updates in RCM, RBI and SIS are incorporated to the Asset Care Plan.
• Facilitates the creation and updating of the overall Asset Care Plan.
• Coordinates and facilitates the Asset Care Plan development and refresh.
• Supports the T/A event manager (TEM) accountability as outlined in T/A Standard and Manual Section 2.3.3 by working with the Production Team to collect scope for T/A events.

• Regular risk assessment meetings are conducted. GUS (Global Utilization System) focal point as assigned. GUS focal point responsibilities include:
• Trains new team members on the use of MTO and work process, and
• Threats are created using a causal reasoning approach through use of the Five Causal Reasoning Questions (5CRQs),
• Teams are identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating the appropriate threats,

• Reporting of monthly performance to the site including Site Leadership and Production Teams.
• Entry of data into the global system
• Collecting of the monthly unplanned and planned downtime
• Leader of the annual business planning process for their assigned Production Team. Analyzes reliability performance data and provides as needed to site personnel for Project Forms, Asset Master Planning, risk assessments, etc. Collects and analyzes reliability data, maintenance costs, and SAP data to identify trends and opportunities. Actively uses the Reliability Engineering Principles and has the ability to discern appropriate application of:
• Reviewing the with stakeholders for accuracy on a monthly basis

• Pareto Analysis
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
• Reliability Block Diagram (RBD)
• Crow-AMSAA Analysis
• Weibull Analysis
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

MEC Role in conjunction with MEC focal point: Owns the Production Team Capital budgeting process including itemized projects in the Capital plan with budget estimates based on defined scope. Manages spending forecasts and multi-year planning for Capital using the MTO database. Must be capable of providing business cases based on risk for large capital projects that will require the execution from the projects organization. Leads the Monthly Reliability meeting by interfacing with the Production Teams to determine new threats, drive continuous progress on existing threats, identify bad actors, and facilitate multi-disciplinary teams. The RE is expected to share specific metrics with the Production Team to evaluate performance. Actively participates in informal meetings to help create clarity and ensure a reliability/causal mindset is included in the conversation as well as in the interim and long-term mitigations. Responsible for facilitating and coordinating Reliability studies with Projects & Technology (P&T) and Safety, Environment and Asset Management (SEAM). These studies can vary in frequency based on Production Team and Turnaround (T/A) cycle throughout the tenure of the RE role. Actively participate in the RCM work process, including RCM Living Program, and its role in developing optimized, long-term strategies for reliable Asset Management. Facilitates learning for repeat failures and events. Demonstrates productive advocacy and inquiry skills under substantial opposition. Compliance with all mandatory training and process safety commitments. Supports Infrastructure program management by providing facilitation of asset category CAPEX spending plan generation. Utilizes MTO work process to assign risk and prioritization to the Infrastructure program. Contributes to a robust 5-year Capital plan by developing Tactics to address top MTO threats and other strategic initiatives inline with Production Team Reference Plan and Infrastructure Program.

Responsibilities (Results, Behaviors, Team Growth and Assurance)

• MEC implementation will require a culture shift towards co-accountability across disciplines and Technology to drive a cost competitive care strategy that delivers the required Operation Availability.
• Provide daily support and challenge to the Production Team to define problem statements and take a causal approach to determine the “why” behind the defined problem statements. Test that defined mitigations/solutions address the root cause of the problem.
• Champion for Causal Reasoning within the Production Team:
  • Lead and participate in Level 1, 2, or 3 Causal Investigations focused on Health, Safety, Environmental, and Reliability Incidents, including bad actors. All REs will obtain Level 2 facilitation certification, with an expectation that each RE will participate in 2 investigations per 12 months to maintain skill set.
  • Provide daily support and challenge to the Production Team to define problem statements and take a causal approach to determine the “why” behind the defined problem statements. Test that defined mitigations/solutions address the root cause of the problem.
• Links the different facets of Reliability (MTO, Bad Actors, RCM, etc.) into one consistent strategy. Ensures alignment and progress of this strategy within the Production Teams via the Production Team Reference Plan.
• Actively participate in department and site level safety initiatives in an overall effort to achieve a goal of zero injuries, including weekly staff safety engagements, monthly staff safety meetings, field safety engagements, and Production Area safety walks.
• Knowledge of project management to drive MEC implementation per schedule.
• Lead and participate in Level 1, 2, or 3 Causal Investigations focused on Health, Safety, Environmental, and Reliability Incidents, including bad actors. All REs will obtain Level 2 facilitation certification, with an expectation that each RE will participate in 2 investigations per 12 months to maintain skill set.
• Assures that all members of the Production Team are trained in and are actively using MTO to identify, assess, and prioritize threats.
• Lead MEC work process measured against 1Q operational availability and 1/2Q maintenance index; accountable for understanding the gaps and leading discipline teams to develop gap closure plans.

Networks & Team Membership:

Identified the key networks & teams that this role interacts with to deliver results

• Assigned Production Team: The RE must develop a working relationship with all members of the Production Team, including Operations, Maintenance, and Discipline Engineering support members.
• Site Leadership Team: The RE will commonly interact with the Site Leadership Team to provide detailed information regarding business planning and Site reliability events (unplanned or planned downtime, Big Hits, etc.).

Key Challenges:

Identified the key challenges associated with the job.

• The RE must be able to prioritize a high workload within the production team and help prioritize and coordinate the production team’s worklist (i.e. FIM, MTO, etc.). This person must be able to work at all levels of the organization and have the appropriate skills to influence others.
• Influencing and enabling others to perform their work will allow for the RE to engage in high impact work. Examples include having the Production Team members updating the MTO database on their own and maintaining ownership of their threats.

What we need from you

Requirements:

• Related experience in reliability maintenance (including at a minimum causal learning/failure analysis and understanding of execution processes (turnaround and routine maintenance).
• Demonstrated skill of working with teams to achieve a common goal.
• Experience with fact-based decision-making and root cause analysis.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interface with personnel from diverse backgrounds at all levels of the organization.
• Lead peer groups of multi-discipline teams
• Models proactive and effective problem solving and decision making skills.
• Strong trouble-shooting and analytical skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to balance short and longer term reliability initiatives.
• Minimum Seven (7) years of related Manufacturing Industry experience, Petrochemical or Refinery experience preferred.
• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
• Can diagnose and present complex topics in a simple and understandable way.
• Knowledge of the concepts of Risk Assessment, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Management of Change, and Causal Learning.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Company description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally, and socially responsible. We have expertise in exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork, and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

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• We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
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