engineering
Posted YesterdayMechanical Engineer
at Airswift
United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Monitor the condition and performance of mechanical equipment through field walkthroughs, inspection activity, vibration review, oil analysis, and operating data assessment.
- Identify, prioritise, and help resolve equipment threats and opportunities affecting reliability, integrity, and plant performance.
- Support Management of Change activities, including technical design basis development, hazard review input, pre-startup safety review participation, and change close-out verification.
- Drive improvements to asset care strategies using reliability-centred maintenance principles and a consistent, structured approach.
- Review mechanical failures, investigate root causes, and develop robust corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Prepare well-defined scopes for equipment changes and ensure alignment with applicable industry codes, standards, and engineering practices.
- Support multi-year maintenance planning by identifying and prioritising equipment improvement opportunities that enhance reliability and asset integrity. Qualifications &
Requirements
- Experience Essential: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, with mechanical engineering strongly preferred. Essential: Minimum five years of
- experience in a related manufacturing industry. Essential: Proven
- experience with maintenance and reliability concepts, including engineering and maintenance processes.
- Essential: Knowledge of risk management, reliability-centred maintenance, Management of Change, and structured problem solving.
- Essential: Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Essential: Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritise multiple projects and work independently with a high level of quality and attention to detail.
- experience supporting general-purpose static and/or rotating equipment. Desirable: Prior direct full-time
- experience in a refining or petrochemical manufacturing complex.
- Desirable: Knowledge of industry codes and standards and their application within refining and petrochemical environments.
- Desirable: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
- Desirable: Ability to qualify for a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card.
Additional details
- Position Overview This Mechanical Engineer opportunity is focused on providing engineering support within a petrochemical manufacturing environment, with a strong emphasis on asset integrity, reliability, and safe operations.
- The Mechanical Engineer will take ownership of static and rotating equipment within an assigned production area and play a key role in improving equipment performance year on year.
- This Mechanical Engineer position offers broad technical scope across maintenance, reliability, operations support, and plant change activities.
- For candidates seeking a highly technical Mechanical Engineer role with direct operational impact, this position offers strong exposure across both fixed and rotating assets.
- Role Context This role is based within a refining and petrochemical manufacturing complex and supports production-area operations in an industrial plant setting.
- The working environment includes both office-based engineering activity and regular time in an operating petrochemical facility.
- The role involves close collaboration with operations, maintenance, inspection, process engineering, project engineering, and other engineering disciplines. Key
- Responsibilities Provide day-to-day mechanical engineering support to operations and maintenance teams to help maintain safe and reliable unit performance.
- Act as the first point of contact for mechanical systems within the assigned production area, covering both rotating equipment and static equipment.
- Contribute technical input to maintenance planning, turnaround scope development, commissioning activities, and mechanical equipment execution support.