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The Baytown facility is designed to process 5,000 barrels per day of used motor oil into Group II+ base oils, along with co-products such as gas oil and asphalt modifiers. Its process unit includes one of the largest hydrotreaters in the re-refining industry. Blue Tide is a Tailwater Capital portfolio company and developed the facility with Pennzoil-Quaker State, a Shell subsidiary.\nPosition Summary\nThe Mechanical & Small Project Engineer is the Baytown site’s in-house static equipment and mechanical engineering resource as well as acting as project engineering for small projects. The role reports to the Engineering & Technology Manager. The ideal candidate has about 10 years of experience and a static equipment background, combined with project engineering, maintenance, or turnaround experience.\nRoles & Responsibilities\nStatic equipment engineering (primary)\nAct as the site’s technical authority for static equipment, including pressure vessels, columns, heat exchangers, piping, tanks, and relief devices.\nSupport mechanical integrity: inspection planning, corrosion monitoring, fitness-for-service and remaining-life assessments, and repair or replacement recommendations, including for hydro processing and sour service.\nReview inspection findings with inspectors, operations, and maintenance, and recommend run, repair, or replace decisions.\nLead troubleshooting and root cause analysis of static equipment failures and leaks.\nReview and approve mechanical designs, drawings, datasheets, and vendor documents, and provide technical review for management of change including major projects.\n Small project engineering (secondary)Scope, estimate, and design small capital and maintenance projects, including cost and schedule. The project size would be up to 500k$.\nManage engineering contractors and vendors, and oversee fabrication, installation, and commissioning.\nComplete project close-out, including updated drawings and documentation.\n Maintenance and turnaround support (as experience allows)Help develop turnaround and maintenance work scopes and work packages.\nProvide technical support during execution, including field engineering decisions and inspection follow-up.\nQualificationsRequired\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.\nAbout 10 years of engineering experience, with a static equipment background in a refinery, petrochemical, or similar process facility.\nWorking knowledge of the codes and standards used for static equipment design, inspection, and repair.\n Preferred (at least one): Candidates are not expected to meet every item below but should at least have oneSmall project engineering experience, from scope through commissioning.\nMaintenance experience supporting a process facility.\nTurnaround experience, from planning through execution.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3028,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Environmental Science","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T22:22:46Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:10","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":500000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T16:38:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":35044,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3913113},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3913113"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/bluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbluetide-mechanical-engineer-blue-tide"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3709598}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"bluetide.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3709598},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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