Fixed Equipment Specialist (Engineer)

Location: League City, Texas; hybrid

Salary: $161,100–$200,365 per year, commensurate with experience.

Company

hirify.global Olefins & Polymers USA operates a large-scale olefins and polymers manufacturing business with a focus on safety, health, environmental performance, and operational integrity.

What you will do

• Define enterprise asset care strategies, lifecycle plans, inspection intervals, replacement timelines, and renewal paths for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, piping, and related fixed equipment.
• Provide senior technical guidance to site mechanical engineering, reliability, and inspection teams on complex integrity, design, troubleshooting, repair, and failure investigation matters.
• Own fixed equipment data quality and lifecycle history practices in PCMS or an equivalent mechanical integrity platform.
• Steward the relief device program covering more than 4,000 devices, including sizing, testing, repair, condition records, and compliance documentation.
• Integrate fixed equipment risk assessments into turnaround scope, capital planning, inspection programs, RBI, FFS, and damage mechanism reviews.
• Coach more than 30 mechanical engineers and reliability leaders while participating in hirify.global, API, and AFPM technical networks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• 15–20 years of experience in fixed equipment reliability, design, or inspection within refining, petrochemical, chemical, or heavy industrial environments.
• Expertise in pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks, piping systems, degradation mechanisms, corrosion, metallurgical failure analysis, and repair techniques.
• Working knowledge of API 510, 570, 571, 579, 580, 581, 653, 520/521, applicable ASME codes, RAGAGEP, and OSHA 1910.119 Mechanical Integrity requirements.
• Experience managing relief device programs and applying RBI, FFS, damage mechanism reviews, and inspection findings to lifecycle strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to establish standards, improve PCMS data quality, influence technical decisions, and coach teams across a large manufacturing organization.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Active participation in API, AFPM, or other mechanical integrity and reliability networks.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture centered on honesty, integrity, safety, health, and environmental performance.
• Enterprise-wide scope across three manufacturing sites and the O&P USA pipeline business.
• Opportunity to influence more than $175 million in annual maintenance and inspection spending and approximately 20 turnaround events.
• Focus on adopting improved practices that create value and strengthen equipment reliability.