Position Overview
This Mechanical Engineer opportunity is focused on providing engineering support within a petrochemical manufacturing environment, with a strong emphasis on asset integrity, reliability, and safe operations. The Mechanical Engineer will take ownership of static and rotating equipment within an assigned production area and play a key role in improving equipment performance year on year. This Mechanical Engineer position offers broad technical scope across maintenance, reliability, operations support, and plant change activities. For candidates seeking a highly technical Mechanical Engineer role with direct operational impact, this position offers strong exposure across both fixed and rotating assets.
Role Context
This role is based within a refining and petrochemical manufacturing complex and supports production-area operations in an industrial plant setting. The working environment includes both office-based engineering activity and regular time in an operating petrochemical facility. The role involves close collaboration with operations, maintenance, inspection, process engineering, project engineering, and other engineering disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
Provide day-to-day mechanical engineering support to operations and maintenance teams to help maintain safe and reliable unit performance.
Act as the first point of contact for mechanical systems within the assigned production area, covering both rotating equipment and static equipment.
Monitor the condition and performance of mechanical equipment through field walkthroughs, inspection activity, vibration review, oil analysis, and operating data assessment.
Identify, prioritise, and help resolve equipment threats and opportunities affecting reliability, integrity, and plant performance.
Support Management of Change activities, including technical design basis development, hazard review input, pre-startup safety review participation, and change close-out verification.
Drive improvements to asset care strategies using reliability-centred maintenance principles and a consistent, structured approach.
Review mechanical failures, investigate root causes, and develop robust corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Contribute technical input to maintenance planning, turnaround scope development, commissioning activities, and mechanical equipment execution support.
Prepare well-defined scopes for equipment changes and ensure alignment with applicable industry codes, standards, and engineering practices.
Support multi-year maintenance planning by identifying and prioritising equipment improvement opportunities that enhance reliability and asset integrity.
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, with mechanical engineering strongly preferred.
Essential:
Minimum five years of experience in a related manufacturing industry.
Essential:
Proven experience with maintenance and reliability concepts, including engineering and maintenance processes.
Essential:
Knowledge of risk management, reliability-centred maintenance, Management of Change, and structured problem solving.
Essential:
Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
Essential:
Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritise multiple projects and work independently with a high level of quality and attention to detail.
Essential:
Legal authorisation to work in the US on a full-time basis.
Desirable:
Prior experience supporting general-purpose static and/or rotating equipment.
Desirable:
Prior direct full-time experience in a refining or petrochemical manufacturing complex.
Desirable:
Knowledge of industry codes and standards and their application within refining and petrochemical environments.
Desirable:
Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification.
Desirable:
Ability to qualify for a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card.
About the Company
This company is a major organisation in the petroleum sector, operating across exploration, production, industrial transformation, logistics, and marketing. This opportunity sits within a petrochemical and refining environment where engineering performance, operational reliability, and safe execution are key priorities.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project and business needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift’s geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry. If this Mechanical Engineer opportunity is of interest, please apply now.