Senior Machinery Engineer

Overview

The Senior Machinery Engineer is part of the ENGINE Operations R&I Machinery Engineering team within Chevron's ENGINE Center and provides machinery engineering consulting services to Chevron Business Units, including joint venture refineries.

What you'll do

• Provide technical support for gas turbines, centrifugal and positive displacement pumping systems, reciprocating compressor systems, and the design of onshore and offshore lifting devices.
• Consult on pump and mechanical seal selection and performance evaluation.
• Consult on reciprocating compressor performance evaluation and operational troubleshooting.
• Reconcile Chevron Engineering Standards requirements versus industry standards and draft engineering standard revisions.
• Contribute to Machinery Research & Development projects.
• Influence and collaborate with customers to solve technical problems with the best risk-based solution.
• Support project concept development, scoping, equipment selection, application evaluation, supplier selection, writing specifications, performing bid analysis, designing equipment, facilitating testing, assisting with field startup, performing troubleshooting, using and implementing digital solutions, and leading failure analysis.
• Support machinery fleet reliability and performance optimization through the collection, quality control and analysis of operational reliability data.
• Work with the monitoring team to incorporate equipment health and performance data with operational reliability trends.
• Assist with the identification of improvement opportunities and best practices to share across the fleet.
• Support the collection and management of machinery parts and service bulletin tracking systems.
• Track and optimize the life of machinery capital spare parts.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in an Oil and Gas operating facility.
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from a recognized (AICTE) university.
• Extensive knowledge of machinery design theory, sizing, and application to support early concepts engineering.
• Extensive experience in rotating equipment operation, maintenance, system optimization and machinery condition monitoring analysis.
• Field experience in an operating environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rotodynamic analysis software.
• Vibration Analyst Certification, Level I or II.
• Oil & gas or petrochemical experience, or experience working with a machinery fabricator.
• Experience with reliability analysis or applied statistics to drive business improvements.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Standard work week Monday to Friday; working hours 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm, aligned to support global business requirements.
• Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.