Job Description

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.

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Why work at AdvanSix?

• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being

• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program

• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development

• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences

The Mechanical Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting plant reliability and mechanical integrity with technical expertise for preventive maintenance and mechanical reliability and mechanical integrity activities for critical plant equipment, including fixed assets (tanks, pressure vessels and piping) and rotating machinery.

Position Responsibilities:

• Work with the Maintenance Manager to provide technical support to cross functional teams.
• Determine the function, capability, functional failure modes, probability of failure, impact severity and acceptable risk for assets to define the right maintenance requirements to eliminate functional failures and their effects
• Provide support to the reliability program that includes predictive and preventive maintenance, operability, maintainability, reparability, etc. using computer data management systems.
• Work with the operations and maintenance teams to establish preventive maintenance frequencies.
• Participate in site health, environmental, PSM and safety activities.
• Develop Reliability Control Plans for critical equipment and resolve resulting issues.
• Aid in the preparation of sites audits on Process Safety Management (PSM), insurance risk assessments, reliability programs etc.
• Communicate progress and results to cross functional groups.
• Develop training programs and administer those programs.
• Provide support to other facilities within AdvanSix on occasion.
• Report on status of compliance, department goals and project.
• Gather, interpret and manage ongoing metrics related to plant reliability life cycle management.
• Ensure the safe and reliable operation of rotating equipment such as pumps, compressors and cooling towers.
• Coach site personnel in the reliability work processes to ensure continued alignment.
• Propose replacement projects based on asset health and conditions for the respective areas of responsibility.
• Provide technical support to the capital group on improvement and replacement projects.
• Provides technical support to operations and maintenance teams.
• Works with operations to perform analyses of assets including asset utilization, overall equipment effectiveness, remaining useful life, other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets
• Lead a cross functional team on a periodic basis to analyze MTBF of equipment and lead solution development.
• Participate in lean activities to support the plant.
• Work with outside vendors and industry experts to advance continuous improvement activities.
• Support the implementation of the plant reliability program that includes predictive and preventive maintenance.
• Ability to perform outdoors in adverse weather conditions (cold, hot, humid, rain, snow, etc.).

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related degree
• 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in plant reliability and/or maintenance experience

Additional Qualifications:

• Six Sigma Certified preferred
• Ability to use influencing skills to accomplish goals and objectives
• Ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of an organization
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer skills
• Experience with SAP a plus

The base salary range for this role is $86,400 to $129,600 annually.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include periodic pay rate adjustments based on market competitiveness. Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match. Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary financial benefits such as incentive pay, equity awards, and participation in a deferred compensation plan.

Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages.

The pay range, incentives and benefits listed above are general guidelines only and not a guarantee of total compensation or benefits. The final offer will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, the responsibilities of the job, experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as the job location, applicability of a collective bargaining agreement, length of service, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on your role, business results and individual performance. All aspects of total rewards offered are subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.

At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.