[Hiring] Senior Reliability Engineer @Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, LLC

Role Description

Our customers count on Solaris power to keep their operations running, and when a unit trips, they feel it right away. As a Reliability Engineer, your job is to make sure that rarely happens, and to get to the root cause when it does. You will be the person site teams, equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and leadership rely on for a clear picture of how your assigned equipment is performing and what to do about it.

You will own the reliability, availability, and lifecycle management of an assigned bank of power-generation assets: gas turbines, generators, SCR and emissions systems, balance-of-plant equipment and switchgear. As a site-aligned generalist, you are the technical point for reliability related concerns on those assets. You will go deep where a problem demands it, bring in the right specialists, and stay with an issue until the fix is proven and the lesson is shared to prevent future recurrences.

Our goal is to build a proactive repair and maintenance strategy across our power generation assets, and you will be on the front line of that effort. You will monitor your equipment remotely, catch the trends that matter before they become outages, and partner with our data-science team to turn what the machines are telling us into sharper alerts, models and dashboards.

Most of your time will be spent working to remotely monitor and analyze your assets. Our Reliability Engineers support site teams, with about 30-40% travel to the equipment’s location at your assigned facilities. A typical week might include:

• Reviewing alerts and trends across your assets and deciding which need action now, which need watching, and which are noise.
• Troubleshooting a trip or derate with a site team, remotely or on site, using OEM and in-house monitoring and diagnostic tools.
• Leading a root cause analysis and turning the findings into corrective actions that maintenance planners can triage.
• Assessing a new OEM service bulletin and agreeing on an implementation plan with operations and maintenance teams.
• Shaping the scope of critical spares for an assigned facility.
• Building the technical case for a warranty claim and verifying that the OEM’s fix holds.
• Working with OEMs and Solaris leaders to plan CAPEX for overhauls and major equipment milestones.

You will report to the Reliability Manager and work daily with Operations, maintenance planners, Supply Chain, OEM representatives and our data-science team. You will have a real voice in how Solaris maintains its equipment, from maintenance intervals and overhaul scope to critical spares and OPEX/CAPEX planning. As a technical expert in the engineering organization for field issues, your impact will reach well beyond your own assigned asset base.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, plus 5 or more years of relevant experience.
• Relevant experience means reliability, maintenance, field service, operations-support or product-support engineering on gas turbines, other rotating equipment or power-generation assets.
• Prior gas turbine experience.
• Prior field engineering experience, such as oil and gas, power generation or utilities.
• Working knowledge of a turbine-generator package and its auxiliaries (generator, SCR/emissions, switchgear, balance of plant).
• Demonstrated root cause analysis and troubleshooting on rotating or electrical equipment, using methods such as 5-Whys, fault tree and FMEA.
• Experience with maintenance planning and a CMMS or EAM system.
• Comfort analyzing equipment data (trends, alarms, KPIs) from equipment logs, remotely captured data, and SCADA systems.
• Ability to work at industrial sites requiring CAT 2 FR around medium voltage equipment.
• Authorization to work in the United States.
• Remote (U.S.) position. Living near a major airport is required.
• Ability to travel about 30-40% of working time, mostly to assigned sites.

Requirements

• Expertise on gas turbine package operation, maintenance, overhaul (eg: Solar Turbines, Baker Hughes, GE Vernova, Siemens, etc.).
• Hands-on exposure to reciprocating engines or battery energy storage systems.
• Prior rotating-equipment, reliability or fleet-engineer role at an operator, oil and gas company, or OEM.
• Experience with SCR/emissions systems, CEMS and air-permit compliance.
• Experience with warranty claims, LTSAs or OEM service agreements.
• Experience supporting prime-power or mission-critical loads, such as data centers or remote oilfield power.
• Familiarity with OEM remote-monitoring tools, Power BI dashboards, condition-monitoring analytics.
• Versed in at least one control system architecture (Allen Bradley, Mark 6e, powerMAX, etc.).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, Dental & Vision benefits
• Disability Insurance
• Company paid Life and AD&D insurance with supplemental offerings
• Company matching 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off, including 10 paid holidays
• Career Progression
• Tuition Reimbursement