Global Machinery Engineering

LyondellBasell

Houston, TX

Estimated pay: Est. $33–$37/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Location:

Houston, TX, US, 77049

Req ID: 91270

Facility: Channelview-Hec-130

Department: Mechanical Engineering, Machinery

Division: Technology and Safety

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary *MoReTec* recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

**Come Join an Inclusive Team**

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The Global Machinery Engineering Manager is part of the Global Asset Integrity and Turnaround organization and provides technical leadership for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of critical machinery across LYB's global manufacturing portfolio. The role serves as a corporate technical resource for turbomachinery, finishing equipment, and associated machinery systems. The Global Machinery Engineering team partners with manufacturing sites, capital project teams, turnaround organizations, Global Procurement, and equipment suppliers to improve machinery reliability and lifecycle performance. This position also strengthens organizational capability through technical networks, standards, mentoring, knowledge transfer, and collaborative problem solving.

**A Day in the Life**

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Leadership and Organizational Development

• Lead, develop, and manage a global team of machinery engineers and specialists, including goal setting, work assignments, performance management, coaching, career development, and succession planning.

Regularly communicate the team's impact and influence on site and global priorities.

Establish technical priorities, work processes, and organizational goals for the immediate team and the broader machinery engineering organization.

Develop organizational capability through training matrices, technical training, mentoring, and structured knowledge transfer.

Build and maintain a strong global machinery community that leverages relationships with key site personnel to improve technical capability and solve challenging problems.

Machinery Reliability and Asset Strategy

• Provide strategic leadership, technical direction, and organizational accountability for critical machinery reliability, maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, and lifecycle decisions.

Develop and support long-range improvement strategies for machinery reliability and lifecycle performance.

Lead or facilitate efforts to identify and eliminate recurring bad actors and chronic machinery issues that impact process safety, reliability and maintenance performance.

Support Technical Networks, Reliability Improvement Teams, RAM studies, and machinery asset strategy development.

Technical Standards and Organizational Capability

• Serve as a steward for machinery engineering standards, maintaining alignment with applicable industry standards.

Build and sustain technical networks that connect global and site machinery personnel, enable collaboration on common problems, and promote the sharing and cataloging of knowledge.

Champion collaborative design reviews for critical machinery changes to improve the quality and reliability of engineering solutions while developing organizational capability through active knowledge transfer, mentoring, and technical engagement of engineers across all experience levels

Lead and oversee the team responsible for delivering technical training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to engineers and specialists across experience levels

• Capital Projects and Equipment Acquisition
• Assign and direct technical resources supporting major machinery capital projects, including equipment selection, specifications, design reviews, supplier engagement, installation, commissioning, and startup.

Serve as the Capital Program Owner for machinery within long-range capital planning and guide machinery investment prioritization using technical, risk, and lifecycle considerations.

Turnaround, Site Support, and Emergency Response

• Provide technical resources for turnaround planning, execution, and post-turnaround review through assessments, mentoring, field support, and quality assurance.

Support the continued development and implementation of the corporate machinery turnaround planning model and associated protocols.

Provide oversight and quality assurance for ov