Reliability Supervisor

Job Summary:

The Reliability Supervisor leads CVRF’s refinery-wide asset reliability program to reduce risk, prevent unplanned downtime, improve equipment performance, and support safe, compliant, and reliable production. Integrates equipment reliability, mechanical integrity, condition monitoring, maintenance strategy, asset criticality, root-cause learning, lifecycle planning, and performance measurement across Operations, Maintenance, PEI/Inspection, Engineering, Process Controls, Projects, HSE, and Turnarounds.

Essential Functions:

• Reliability Strategy & Governance: Own the site reliability strategy, standards, annual plan, multi-year roadmap, risk register, action governance, and integration with operating plans, budgets, capital planning, MOC, projects, and turnarounds.
• Asset Criticality & Maintenance Strategy: Maintain the asset hierarchy and critical-equipment register; optimize preventive, predictive, condition-based, and run-to-failure strategies using failure-mode and risk-based methods; improve PM value, intervals, job plans, backlog health, schedule completion, and repair quality.
• Rotating Equipment: Lead programs for pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, gearboxes, motors, seals, lubrication systems, and auxiliaries. Establish vibration, oil analysis, ultrasound, thermography, performance monitoring, precision maintenance, repair specifications, acceptance criteria, and bad-actor elimination.
• Fixed Equipment, Piping & Mechanical Integrity: Partner with PEI/Inspection on pressure vessels, piping, tanks, exchangers, boilers, fired equipment, relief systems, damage mechanisms, RBI, corrosion monitoring, remaining life, temporary repairs, fitness-for-service, inspection findings, and repair/replace decisions.
• Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls: Develop reliability programs for motors, switchgear, MCCs, transformers, relays, UPS/DC systems, analyzers, instrumentation, control valves, SIS/BMS interfaces, bypass risk, electrical testing, infrared inspection, motor monitoring, and critical field devices.
• RCA & Defect Elimination: Lead RCAs for significant or repeat failures and production-loss events; address physical, human, and systemic causes; assign owners and due dates; verify effectiveness; and prioritize bad actors using risk, recurrence, downtime, and cost.
• Projects, MOC & Commissioning: Set reliability and maintainability requirements for capital projects, replacements, and modifications. Support equipment selection, design reviews, lifecycle cost, vendor documents, FAT/SAT, commissioning, acceptance testing, and handover of asset data, PM/PdM tasks, spares, manuals, drawings, and operating limits.
• Turnarounds & Outages: Provide risk-based scope input, disposition discovery work and equipment findings, support quality repair decisions, capture lessons learned, update maintenance strategies, and monitor repaired or replaced assets after startup.
• Critical Spares, Obsolescence & Lifecycle: Manage critical-spares reviews based on consequence, lead time, redundancy, repairability, and supply risk; mitigate single-point failures; maintain end-of-life and obsolescence registers; and support multi-year replacement plans.
• Operations Partnership: Strengthen operator rounds, early defect recognition, equipment care, operating-window discipline, and abnormal-condition escalation. Connect operating excursions and process data to equipment degradation and durable corrective action.
• CMMS, Data & Analytics: Improve asset master data, bills of material, failure coding, work history, PM records, and data quality. Build actionable dashboards from work-order, inspection, condition-monitoring, downtime, failure, and cost data using consistent, auditable definitions.
• Process Safety, Compliance & Technical Risk: Support PHAs, MOCs, PSSRs, incident investigations, audits, mechanical-integrity programs, environmental stewardship, and recognized engineering practices. Apply relevant API, ASME, NFPA, IEEE, ISA, and NETA requirements as appropriate to each asset and service.
• Leadership & Capability: Lead assigned engineers, specialists, technicians, contractors, and cross-functional teams; set priorities and accountability; build skills in troubleshooting, vibration, lubrication, precision maintenance, RCA, and reliability analysis; and ensure technical concerns can be escalated without schedule or production pressure.
• Budget, Contracts & Vendors: Manage reliability budgets and forecasts; develop economic justification for risk reduction; define contractor and vendor scopes; and monitor technical quality, cost, schedule, deliverables, and closeout documentation.

Performance Measures:

• Asset availability/reliability, unplanned downtime, production loss, MTBF/MTBR, repeat failures, and maintenance cost by critical asset or unit.
• PM/PdM compliance, schedule completion, planned-versus-unplanned work, overdue critical work, condition-monitoring coverage, and finding-to-correction cycle time.
• Bad-actor reduction, RCA action effectiveness, critical-spares coverage, single-point vulnerability closure, obsolescence reduction, and reliability-related process-safety or mechanical-integrity action status.
• Asset criticality completion, maintenance-strategy optimization, CMMS data quality, and reliability program maturity.

Education:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Reliability, or related engineering/technical discipline, or equivalent directly relevant refinery/industrial experience.
• Progressive reliability or maintenance-engineering experience in refinery, petrochemical, chemical, renewable fuels, or similarly asset-intensive process operations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of rotating equipment, fixed-equipment/PEI interfaces, electrical and instrumentation reliability, condition monitoring, RCA, PM/PdM optimization, asset criticality, CMMS/EAM systems, MOC, and turnaround support.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, communicate technical risk to leadership, and drive actions through verified completion.

Preferred

• PE registration, advanced reliability education, CMRP or CRL certification.
• Certification/training in vibration analysis, machinery lubrication, thermography, ultrasound, RCA facilitation, RBI, RCM, precision maintenance, or lifecycle cost analysis.
• Prior leadership in refinery reliability, maintenance engineering, asset integrity, or technical services.

Core Competencies:

• Safety and process-safety leadership
• Risk-based decisions
• Equipment troubleshooting
• Technical rigor
• Data-driven problem solving
• Planning and execution discipline
• Cross-functional influence
• Clear communication
• Coaching
• Continuous improvement and accountability

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to pass a physical test of pushing, pulling, and lifting a minimum of 50 lbs
• Physical strength and good hand-eye coordination
• Prolonged periods of standing and walking
• Ability to perform repetitive movements over long periods of time
• Requires frequent reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching
• Requires lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring equipment and materials

Working Conditions and Authority:

• Regular work in an operating refinery, including process units, equipment areas, control rooms, shops, and outage/turnaround areas; support significant equipment events, startups, and emergent issues as business needs require; comply with applicable PPE, training, medical, respiratory, and safe-work requirements.
• Expected to elevate unacceptable asset risk, challenge practices that could compromise equipment integrity, recommend repair, shutdown, or escalation when technically warranted, and document significant decisions through CVRF governance. Final authorities remain subject to CVRF policies and delegated approval levels.

Other duties Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity Grapevine Operating Company LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.