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The FER Manager recognizes and draws upon the specialized experience and expertise of individual team members while maintaining broad technical oversight of the group’s work.\nThe FER Manager works across Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Projects, Turnarounds, and company technical networks to establish fixed equipment strategies, develop long-range asset plans, manage corrosion and degradation risks, address chronic equipment issues, and support safe and reliable refinery operations.\nSafety and Process Safety Leadership\nChampion the refinery safety culture and ensure activities are conducted in accordance with company safety policies and procedures.\nEnsure fixed equipment engineering activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP), and company and refinery standards.\nEnsure appropriate technical support is provided for process safety events, incident investigations, and root cause failure analyses involving fixed equipment, corrosion, materials, and related reliability issues, participating directly when warranted.\nLeadership and People Management\nLead and develop assigned fixed equipment engineering, corrosion and materials engineering, reliability engineering, and other technical personnel.\nEstablish performance expectations and provide coaching, mentoring, technical guidance, senior-level technical review, and career development opportunities.\nConduct performance reviews and succession-planning activities.\nDevelop staffing strategies and participate in recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and resource planning efforts, including use of contract technical support when appropriate.\nEnsure training and development plans are established and followed for team members.\nMechanical Integrity and Asset Management\nProvide leadership for the refinery’s fixed equipment mechanical integrity and reliability programs, including pressure vessels, piping, tanks, heat exchangers, fired equipment, and other assigned fixed assets.\nDevelop and execute strategies that improve equipment integrity and availability, manage degradation risk, reduce unplanned downtime and loss of containment potential, and optimize lifecycle cost.\nProvide engineering leadership for corrosion management, materials selection, damage-mechanism reviews, integrity operating windows, risk-based inspection, fitness-for-service evaluations, repair strategies, and remaining-life assessments.\nUse inspection findings, equipment condition, corrosion data, failure history, and risk information to prioritize improvements and communicate key indicators, trends, and concerns to business team stakeholders and refinery leadership.\nGovern fixed equipment criticality, lifecycle planning, obsolescence management, and long-term repair or replacement strategies.\nCoordinate with Operations, Maintenance, and Inspection to improve equipment performance through effective operating practices, inspection plans, preventive maintenance, monitoring, and timely corrective action.\nElevate significant or unresolved equipment risks, overdue actions, resource needs, and integrity concerns to refinery leadership when warranted.\nTechnical Oversight\nEnsure the team proactively engages with Operations, Maintenance, and Inspection departments to identify, evaluate, and resolve emerging and recurring fixed equipment issues. Provide direct technical support and leadership for complex, high-risk, or cross-functional issues when warranted.\nServe as a senior technical resource to the group by reviewing and challenging significant engineering evaluations, repair recommendations, risk assessments, and technical decisions, while appropriately leveraging subject-matter expertise within the team and company technical networks.\nEnsure appropriate engineering resources are provided to support equipment design, repair development, materials selection, welding and fabrication requirements, technical quality assurance, commissioning, and startup activities.\nSupport Management of Change (MOC) activities and perform or assign senior technical reviews and technical approvals as required, with particular attention to complex, high-risk, or non-routine changes.\nSteward consistent application of applicable API and ASME codes, company and refinery standards, risk-based decision-making, fitness-for-service, failure analysis, and lifecycle cost analysis methodologies. Ensure significant technical work is appropriately reviewed based on complexity, risk, and the experience of the assigned engineer.\nMaintain clear technical interfaces among Fixed Equipment Engineering, Inspection, Operations, Maintenance, Projects, and Turnarounds, including ownership and timely closure of recommendations and action items.\nTurnarounds and Capital Projects\nEnsure integrity-driven work scopes and capital improvements are identified, developed, justified, and advanced through the appropriate refinery turnaround or capital-planning process.\nEnsure inspection findings, corrosion risks, repair requirements, maintainability, standardization, lifecycle cost, and long-term equipment needs are incorporated into turnaround scopes and capital projects.\nEnsure qualified technical resources support scope development, design reviews, repair plans, technical evaluations, execution, quality assurance, commissioning, startup, and post-startup performance verification, as applicable.\nProvide fixed equipment technical leadership for major outages and turnarounds, serving as the technical lead when appropriate.\nBusiness and Financial Management\nDevelop and manage budgets for assigned fixed equipment engineering, corrosion and materials, and reliability activities.\nPrioritize engineering resources to align with refinery safety, mechanical integrity, operational risk, reliability, and business objectives.\nDevelop multiyear forecasts for major repairs, lifecycle replacements, corrosion mitigation, reliability improvements, and risk-reduction initiatives.\nTrack and report mechanical integrity and reliability performance indicators and the operational and financial value associated with improvement initiatives.\nSupport refinery business planning through development of annual and multiyear fixed equipment asset improvement plans.\nCorporate and Industry Engagement\nRepresent the refinery in applicable company fixed equipment, mechanical integrity, corrosion and materials, and reliability technical networks and ensure appropriate site participation and support.\nMaintain awareness of emerging technologies, applicable industry practices, regulatory requirements, and lessons learned relevant to fixed equipment integrity.\nDevelop and maintain productive relationships with technical peers across the company and industry.\nJOB QUALIFICATION\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.\nMinimum of 7 years of experience in fixed equipment, mechanical integrity, inspection, corrosion and materials, or related engineering work in refining, petrochemical processing, or a comparable industrial environment.\nPrevious supervisory experience or a demonstrated record of successfully leading technical personnel and multidisciplinary work.\nStrong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering, Turnarounds, Capital Projects, and refinery leadership.\nBroad working knowledge of fixed equipment engineering, corrosion and materials, inspection, and reliability functions within a refinery or comparable operating facility, with the technical judgment to review significant work and support complex or high-risk issues.\nDemonstrated ability to manage a large and changing workload, establish priorities, and allocate resources based on safety, equipment risk, operational impact, and business value.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate technical risks, priorities, and recommendations.\nDemonstrated commitment to safety, personal integrity, accountability, and operational excellence.\nundefined\nPreferred Qualifications\nFirst- or second-line supervisory experience in a refinery or petrochemical facility.\nAdvanced technical knowledge in at least one of the following areas: fixed equipment engineering, mechanical integrity, inspection, corrosion and materials, or equipment reliability.\nWorking knowledge of applicable API, ASME, NBIC, company, and refinery engineering and inspection standards.\nExperience applying damage-mechanism reviews, corrosion control, risk-based inspection, integrity operating windows, fitness-for-service, root cause failure analysis, lifecycle cost analysis, and risk-based decision-making.\nExperience developing or managing fixed equipment inspection, monitoring, repair, and reliability strategies.\nExperience supporting turnaround planning and execution, capital-project development, fabrication and construction quality assurance, commissioning, and startup.\nUnderstanding of refinery business drivers and the relationship between mechanical integrity, process safety, unit availability, operating risk, and lifecycle cost.\nThis description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.\nWe thank all respondents for their interest in PBF Holding Company LLC (“PBF Energy”); however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of PBF Energy about this requisition. Placement agencies or recruiters need not respond. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee of PBF Energy via email, the Internet or in any method without a valid written search agreement will be deemed the sole property of PBF Energy. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by PBF Energy as a result of the referral or through other means.\nPBF Energy will only consider the candidates that meet the above requirement(s). Candidates should include their salary requirements in order to be seriously considered for this position.\nPBF Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, reproductive health decision making, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, veteran and military status, or any other status protected by applicable law. 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