Rotating Reliability Engineer

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

Perks of working at Ashland:

• 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.