Senior Machinery Engineer

About the role

Chevron's Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center (ENGINE) in Bengaluru, India, offers machinery engineering consulting to its business units, including joint venture refineries. The Senior Machinery Engineer works in the ENGINE Operations R&I Machinery Engineering team and covers pumps, compressors and lifting devices.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical support for gas turbines, centrifugal and positive displacement pumping systems, reciprocating compressor systems and the design of onshore and offshore lifting devices.
• Advise on pump and mechanical seal selection and performance evaluation, and on reciprocating compressor performance evaluation and troubleshooting.
• Reconcile Chevron Engineering Standards with industry standards and help draft standard revisions.
• Contribute to Machinery R&D projects and collaborate with customers on risk-based solutions.
• Support project scoping, equipment selection, specification writing, bid analysis, equipment design, testing, field startup, troubleshooting, digital solutions and failure analysis.
• Support fleet reliability through collection, quality control and analysis of operational reliability data, and share improvement opportunities across the fleet.
• Support parts and service bulletin tracking and track the life of capital spare parts.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in an Oil and Gas operating facility.
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from a recognized (AICTE) university.
• Knowledge of machinery design theory, sizing and application for early concept engineering.
• Experience in rotating equipment operation, maintenance, system optimization and condition monitoring.
• Field experience in an operating environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Rotodynamic analysis software experience.
• Vibration Analyst certification, Level I or II.
• Oil and gas or petrochemical experience, or experience with a machinery fabricator.
• Reliability analysis or applied statistics experience.

The standard work week is Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm. Chevron does not sponsor employment visas or consider candidates on time-limited visa status. Applications are submitted through the online application form.