Engineer, Staff Reliability in Houston, TX

Description

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems. The partnership's assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity. 

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Reliability Engineer to join our Reliability Programs team. This role is critical in driving asset reliability across our facilities, including gathering stations, plants, pipelines, and marine terminals. The ideal candidate will apply Reliability Engineering principles to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities to reduce downtime, enhance safety, and improve operational reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use reliability engineering tools to evaluate availability and failure data to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement.
• Help to facilitate and drive reliability improvement initiatives
• Provide technical assurance and governance for the Production Loss Analysis (PLA) process, ensuring accurate data capture, root cause identification, and action tracking.
• Assist in the implementation of Asset Performance Management (APM) work processes and tools across the organization.
• Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to implement consistent and value-based preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Analyze equipment performance data to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support and mentor others with the root cause analysis process to determine the underlying causes of reliability issues.
• Support the regions with the development of their long-term reliability improvement strategies and tactics.

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in reliability, maintenance, or asset integrity engineering, in the upstream or midstream oil and gas or downstream petrochemical sectors.
• Knowledge of reliability tools and software (APM platforms, PLA, EAM, statistical analysis tools).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a particular strength in crafting concise and coherent written summaries of analytical findings, recommendations, and complex technical concepts.
• Effectively work independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Certification in Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) or Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP).
• Experience with digital transformation initiatives in reliability or maintenance.
• Working knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools (Spotfire, Power BI, Excel).