Instrumentation Reliability Engineer
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R10085614 Instrumentation Reliability Engineer (Open)\&\#xa;\&\#xa;
Location
Houston, TX (HO) \- NAM Corporate\&\#xa;\&\#xa;
Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading\-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.
**How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?**
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At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.
The Instrumentation Reliability Engineer is responsible for identifying and proposing solutions to improve the reliability performance related to instrumentation, control valves, and control systems. Investigate and analyze instrumentation and critical valve reliability issues to help define sustainable solutions to improve plant production reliability and asset uptime. Leads, facilitates and implements key instrumentation reliability programs, Trip Abatement and Alarm Management program at an LI\-NAM level, as well as, bad actor plant sites. Ensures the successful implementation of proposed solutions. Partners with other reliability team member’s, Subject Matter Experts, Plant Management, Engineering, and Operations personnel to develop sustainable strategies to reduce and/or eliminate instrumentation reliability incidents and the associated costs of unreliability.
* Ensures safe, efficient, and reliable asset operations as relates to self and others during operational, maintenance, optimization and troubleshooting activities
* Implements continuous improvement programs and strategies for instrumentation, critical valves, and control systems
* Leads the trip abatement program for all our sites, working closely with experts and operations to define improvement strategies, secure funding, and implement improvements.
* Follows all AL Policies and Standard Operating and Maintenance Procedures.
* Ability to work towards the role as a Technical Expert in instrumentation \& critical valve reliability and maintenance
* Follows governmental rules and engineering standards: (API, ASME, ANSI, NBIC, NFPA, etc)
* Ability to read and interpret company industrial/quality standards and local documents
* Keeps abreast of industrial standards and automation trends for applicability
* Utilizes and understands Enterprise Asset Management system (Maximo) in reference to instrumentation and critical valves
* Responsible for identifying instrumentation reliability threats and driving improvements to improve plant reliability and asset up time.
* Ownership of the instrumentation reliability programs to improve performance of LI\-NAM plant operations
* Ensures instrumentation reliability programs and technologies and maintenance are applied uniformly throughout the facilities and zone level.
* Collects, Organizes, Analyzes, Interprets, and prioritizes instrumentation \& critical valve preventive and/or predictive maintenance data as relates to asset performance. Identifies opportunities and develops programs to improve instrumentation reliability.
* Conducts reliability data analysis –examples include but are not limited to: statistical Process Control, Reliability modeling and prediction, Data mining, Fault Tree Analysis, Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time Between Failure, Overall Equipment Effectiveness related to instrumentation and valve performance.
* Reviews and analyzes instrumentation reliability incidents. Identifies trends and proposes long\-term solutions, supports execution of solutions at the facility level.
* Collaborates with Maintenance \& Operations Teams
* Solves complex problems: takes a broad perspective to identify innovative instrumentation solutions.
* Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
* Implements continuous improvement strategies
* Works closely with other experts and the training department to develop and implement training program enhancements to improve reliability
* Identifies and recommends solutions and processes that are sustainable
**Skills:**
* Possess expertise to interface
Location
Houston, TX (HO) \- NAM Corporate\&\#xa;\&\#xa;
Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading\-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.
**How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?**
-------------------------------------
At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.
The Instrumentation Reliability Engineer is responsible for identifying and proposing solutions to improve the reliability performance related to instrumentation, control valves, and control systems. Investigate and analyze instrumentation and critical valve reliability issues to help define sustainable solutions to improve plant production reliability and asset uptime. Leads, facilitates and implements key instrumentation reliability programs, Trip Abatement and Alarm Management program at an LI\-NAM level, as well as, bad actor plant sites. Ensures the successful implementation of proposed solutions. Partners with other reliability team member’s, Subject Matter Experts, Plant Management, Engineering, and Operations personnel to develop sustainable strategies to reduce and/or eliminate instrumentation reliability incidents and the associated costs of unreliability.
* Ensures safe, efficient, and reliable asset operations as relates to self and others during operational, maintenance, optimization and troubleshooting activities
* Implements continuous improvement programs and strategies for instrumentation, critical valves, and control systems
* Leads the trip abatement program for all our sites, working closely with experts and operations to define improvement strategies, secure funding, and implement improvements.
* Follows all AL Policies and Standard Operating and Maintenance Procedures.
* Ability to work towards the role as a Technical Expert in instrumentation \& critical valve reliability and maintenance
* Follows governmental rules and engineering standards: (API, ASME, ANSI, NBIC, NFPA, etc)
* Ability to read and interpret company industrial/quality standards and local documents
* Keeps abreast of industrial standards and automation trends for applicability
* Utilizes and understands Enterprise Asset Management system (Maximo) in reference to instrumentation and critical valves
* Responsible for identifying instrumentation reliability threats and driving improvements to improve plant reliability and asset up time.
* Ownership of the instrumentation reliability programs to improve performance of LI\-NAM plant operations
* Ensures instrumentation reliability programs and technologies and maintenance are applied uniformly throughout the facilities and zone level.
* Collects, Organizes, Analyzes, Interprets, and prioritizes instrumentation \& critical valve preventive and/or predictive maintenance data as relates to asset performance. Identifies opportunities and develops programs to improve instrumentation reliability.
* Conducts reliability data analysis –examples include but are not limited to: statistical Process Control, Reliability modeling and prediction, Data mining, Fault Tree Analysis, Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time Between Failure, Overall Equipment Effectiveness related to instrumentation and valve performance.
* Reviews and analyzes instrumentation reliability incidents. Identifies trends and proposes long\-term solutions, supports execution of solutions at the facility level.
* Collaborates with Maintenance \& Operations Teams
* Solves complex problems: takes a broad perspective to identify innovative instrumentation solutions.
* Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
* Implements continuous improvement strategies
* Works closely with other experts and the training department to develop and implement training program enhancements to improve reliability
* Identifies and recommends solutions and processes that are sustainable
**Skills:**
* Possess expertise to interface
Posted: 2026-03-16