Strategic Asset Engineer

Your Job

INVISTA is hiring a Strategic Asset Engineer for the Victoria, TX facility. This role is pivotal in supporting Asset Management Excellence by collaborating across multiple disciplines to identify opportunities, bringing solutions to complex problems, and improving decision processes across the facility. Individuals in this space will need good technical skills, communication skills, and enjoy working as part of a team to solve problems.

Our Team

As a member of our site team, you will join a group of professionals who value EH&S Stewardship, innovation, and transformation. We are a collaborative team that strives to solve problems and produce chemicals that benefit humanity. Our team is dedicated to improving our Asset Management Capability, with the goal of achieving uninterrupted operations between turnarounds. You will report to our Performance Improvement Manager and work with SME's from various disciplines.

What You Will Do

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to generate high value availability improvement opportunities and Long-Term Asset Point of Views for advancing the business, Turnaround Strategy, and Equipment Specific Risk Reduction Initiatives
• Through Reliability Analysis, Analytics and Benchmarking identify the opportunities for improvement
• Owning critical site programs that help identify and manage top reliability improvement and risk reduction opportunities (i.e.: Bad Actor, Top Risk, Root Cause Analysis, Risk Mitigations, and Long-Term Asset Advancement)
• Reviewing and Developing Equipment Reliability Analysis and Recommendations
• Developing and help build asset management capability, influencing plant culture, and adaptively sharing knowledge across the organization
• Champion reliability projects and strategies through analyzing loss Pareto's and identifying top opportunities
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline OR experience in project management/plant coordination roles
• Experience with reliability principles, methodologies, and tools (FMEA, RCA, RCM)
• This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in a petroleum refinery or chemical manufacturing facility
• Data analysis experience (database querying, pivot tables, & Power BIs)
• Experience in complex troubleshooting with Mechanical, Instrumentation, or Process Engineering
• Experience leading programs that influence responsibilities of an organization (availability, PSM, MI, safety, etc.)
• Experience leading root cause failure/incident analysis methods
• Statistics, Economics and Planning and/or Project-Option analysis experience prioritizing asset management efforts
• Experience in leadership roles including supervision or project management
  
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life’s essential products to market.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.