Ashland Global
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Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP
Rotating Reliability Engineer
Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?
Are you always solving?
Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us. Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Rotating Reliability Engineer to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty Ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Maintenance function. This position will report to the Maintenance Manager.
The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:
Rotating Equipment Strategy Owner
Create and own reliability strategies for pumps, compressors, gearboxes, centrifuges, agitators, fans, blowers, and seals
Develop asset criticality
Define repair-versus-replace recommendations and lifecycle plans
Maintain equipment standards, preferred designs, and application guidance
Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Leader
Lead vibration, lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, oiling, and performance-monitoring programs
Set monitoring routes, alarm limits, collection frequencies, and escalation criteria
Review condition-monitoring findings and convert them into prioritized actions
Ensure monitoring technologies are matched to equipment failure modes
Defect Elimination & Root Cause Leader
Lead or support RCAs for significant or repetitive rotating-equipment failures
Analyze failure history, repair records, vibration data, and operating conditions
Identify physical, human, and system causes and develop sustainable countermeasures
Track corrective actions and verify effectiveness after implementation
Bad Actor & Reliability Improvement Manager
Maintain a ranked bad-actor list using downtime, cost, frequency, risk, and production impact
Build business cases for reliability improvements and equipment upgrades
Facilitate cross-functional improvement plans with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Supply Chain
Quantify benefits and sustainment requirements for completed improvements
Maintenance Strategy & Work Quality Partner
Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance tasks using failure modes and equipment history
Provide technical scope for inspections, repairs, overhauls, precision installation, alignment, and balancing
Review repair quality, tolerance documentation, and post-maintenance acceptance data
Partner with planners, supervisors, technicians, and vendors on complex rotating-equipment work
Troubleshooting & Technical Response Engineer
Provide field response for equipment vibration, seal leakage, bearing temperature, lubrication, and performance issues
Integrate process conditions with mechanical data during troubleshooting
Define safe operating limits, temporary controls, and escalation needs with appropriate stakeholders
Communicate technical findings, risk, and recommended actions clearly
Turnaround, Outage & Project Reliability Support
Define rotating-equipment inspection and overhaul scopes for outages and turnarounds
Identify critical spares, special tools, vendor support, and quality checkpoints
Support equipment commissioning, startup readiness, and post-startup monitoring
Provide reliability input to capital projects, MOC reviews, design reviews, and PSSRs
Reliability Data, Standards & Capability Developer
Maintain accurate equipment histories, failure coding, technical files, and reliability dashboards
Track rotating-equipment KPIs and communicate trends, risks, and priorities
Develop technical standards, troubleshooting guides, and training for site personnel
Support spare-parts strategies and vendor performance reviews for critical equipment
Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals, and focusing on performance and safety
Improve the organization's capacity and capabilities through building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent and utilizing positive communications and influence with others
In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:
5-10 years in Rotating Reliability Engineering experience
Mechanical Engineering Degree or technical degree
Vibration Cat Lvl 3 certification
RCA Training and Coordination
Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior at all times
Comprehensive Benefit package, Medical, Dental and Vision starting on Day 1 for you AND your family
401(k) plan with company match
Third party recruiters and agencies (“Agency”) should not contact employees of Ashland or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent by an Agency to a hiring manager, recruiter or submitted to Ashland’s career portal are considered unsolicited and property of Ashland. Ashland will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, unless the Agency has a signed contract with Ashland’s Human Resources/Procurement department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.
In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.
Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.
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