Reliability Engineer

Company:  John H. Carter Company, Inc.
Location: Sulphur
Closing Date: 20/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

Ability to make strong relationships with all of the Mechanical and Engine Solutions Specialists, Mechanical and Engine Solutions Technicians and clients in the JHC/CWX territory

Have a customer service attitude, and be positive in all interactions. Integrity is key in reliability.

Support and implement the following:

Vibration Program development, full execution or augmentation

Root Cause / Bad Actor Consultation

Motion Amplification Video studies

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) studies

Dynamic pressure collection from positive displacement and centrifugal equipment

Acoustical Induced Vibration (AIV) or Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) studies

Transient, periodic or random. Can include continuous monitoring.

Structure or piping, including vessels and heat exchangers

Reciprocating compressor machine pulsation studies

Harmonic and resonance studies, natural frequency determination

Operating exclusion zone determination

Vortex shedding, flow turbulence, cavitation studies

Valve noise and acoustic fatigue studies

Fluid-elastic Instability studies

API 670 Machinery Protection System design, installation and lifecycle care

Alignment oversight

Mechanical seal evaluation and design support

Shop documentation and testing including loaded run analysis

Motor field testing

Infrared thermography on electrical and mechanical

Criticality ranking, FMEA, RCM

Have a detailed understanding of all of JHC’s MES / Emerson’s AMS products and services. This includes the hardware and software, and its application and details that establish the fundamental reason why the client would insist on buying our products and services. This hardware and software is as follows, but is not limited to:

AMS 2140, AMS 9420, AMS 9530, AMS Asset Monitor, AMS 6500 ATG, AMS 6500 Prediction, and all of the accessories that accompany the hardware

Complete understanding of AMS Machinery Health Manager (MHM), and PlantWeb OPTICS (as it is introduced), Machine Studio, Emerson’s Process World and Service Management Systems. Some familiarity of AMS Device Manager.


Thorough understanding of all the different type of sensors (i.e. – accelerometers, tachometers, eddy current proximity probes, converters / proximitors, thermocouples / RTDs). Connectors and boots of the sensor to the wiring. Wiring integrity and common industrial routing of wiring and supports (cable tray and conduit). Voltage checks of accelerometers. Field setting of proximity probes. Voltage readings at the converter. Linearity checks of prox / converter sets.


Guardian Support and Lifecycle support systems for hardware and software

Knowledge to explain wireless (WiHART and WiFi) systems, and their configuration

Knowledge of computer systems as related to our hardware and software. Familiarity of network architectures and the typical Purdue model of industrial process systems.

Schedule and follow all MES personnel and their associated PdM contracts or service projects.

Interact with client contacts for the timely completion of recurring contracts, with acceptable notice for MES personnel. Keep a daily calendar of upcoming needs, which personnel will fulfill the need and daily location of MES personnel.

Schedule emergency requests and “one-off” requests given the available MES personnel, and current demands to meet the client needs.

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