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Fixed and Rotating Equipment Manager

Location: Martinez, CA

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary Range: $127,000.00 – $270,000.00/ year (commensurate with scope of role, experience, education, and internal equity)

Role Overview

Our client is seeking a high-performing Fixed and Rotating Equipment Manager to join their team in Martinez, CA. This leadership role provides strategic direction and technical oversight to the site's Fixed and Rotating Equipment engineering teams to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant plant operations.

Reporting as a key leader within the facility and serving on the Extended Leadership Team (ELT), you will lead a team of specialized engineers and specialists, develop asset integrity strategies, and partner across Operations, Maintenance, Technical Services, and Capital Projects to optimize equipment performance and support overall business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Department Management

• Provide leadership, technical oversight, and direction for Fixed Equipment Engineers, Corrosion and Materials Engineers, Rotating Equipment Engineers, and Field Specialists.
• Manage workforce planning, staffing, succession planning, technical training, performance evaluations, coaching, and talent development.
• Establish departmental priorities, allocate engineering resources, and manage operating budgets.
• Serve on the Extended Leadership Team (ELT) and act as a senior technical advisor to site executive leadership.

Asset Integrity & Reliability Strategy

• Formulate and execute long-term strategies to improve the availability, integrity, and operational performance of all plant fixed and rotating assets.
• Lead equipment integrity programs, including corrosion management, condition monitoring, fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments, machinery reliability, and risk evaluations.
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to track asset health, risk reduction, and team effectiveness.
• Foster a culture of Shared Stewardship of Assets to drive cross-functional accountability for equipment health and operational excellence.

Technical Assurance & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Ensure full compliance with relevant statutory laws, industry codes, regulatory requirements, and internal engineering standards.
• Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, Capital Projects, and Business Services to support safe, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible manufacturing.
• Oversee technical scope development for capital projects, turnaround work packages, and major reliability improvement programs.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that reduce operational risk and enhance plant online factor.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

• Physical Demands: Ability to walk up and down stairs, climb ladders, and enter compact or permit-required confined spaces.
• Environmental Exposure: Ability to perform field assessments at elevated heights and outdoors in varied weather conditions.
• Schedule & On-Call: Standard full-time schedule with required availability for off-hours emergency response and participation in duty rotations. Extended or altered work schedules may be required during major maintenance turnarounds and outages.  

Candidate Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering preferred).
• Technical Experience: Minimum of 10 years of direct experience in fixed equipment or rotating equipment engineering within the petrochemical, refining, or chemical processing industry.
• Leadership Experience: Minimum of 5 years of formal supervisory/management experience leading engineering teams.
• Credentials: Valid Driver's License and active TWIC® card (or ability to obtain).

• Demonstrated expertise in damage mechanisms, fitness-for-service (API 579), vibration analysis, and machinery reliability frameworks.
• Proven capability in managing departmental operating budgets and supporting turnaround (TAR) execution scopes.
• Strong track record of driving cross-functional alignment between engineering, maintenance, and plant operations teams.