Reliability Engineer II

ChampionX has an immediate need for a Reliability Engineer II located in Odessa, TX. This is your opportunity to join a growing company offering a competitive base salary and benefits.

What’s in it For You:

• Access to best-in-class resources, tools, and technology

• Opportunity for a long term, advanced career path

• A culture that values safety first, including training and personal protection

• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching and more!

What You Will Do:

• Conduct ESP failure analysis, inspection, determine root causes and provide effective recommendations for customers

• Write professional technical Report (Dismantle Inspection and Failure Analysis - DIFA) detailing the failure to prevent future failures

• Perform data analysis to capture Average failure rate, Mean Time To Failure estimates, Failure Index, Average runtime up to component level for the region

• Assist in training and coaching new Reliability Engineers. This includes reviewing/revising submitted DIFA reports

• Provide Reliability/Technical support to Customers, Sales, Operations

• Attend customer ESP failure review meetings as needed

• Maintain good/professional working relationships with customers and other employees

• Perform inspection failure analysis on infant ESP components. Collect detailed evidence, photos during dismantle and produce DIFA Report within expected timeline from the date of dismantle

• Use problem solving tools such as Cause/Effect Diagram, 5 Whys to determine Failure cause

• Work closely with Quality & Engineering to identify areas of improvement with new & existing product line 

• Planning & Scheduling DIFAs 

• Lead & facilitate continuous improvement of DIFA processes, tooling and dismantle operations

• Perform other duties and special Reliability projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

• 2 years related work experience.

• Strong technical knowledge of ESP Design, Assembly, Operations, Optimization, Testing and Dis-assembly

• Thorough understanding of all ESP component failure modes

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

• Knowledge of 5 Whys Analysis and Fishbone Diagram Analysis

• Expert in commonly used Microsoft office suite

• Effective presentation skills.

• Immigration sponsorship is not offered for this role.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Role is deemed safety sensitive and may be subject to employer or customer drug testing.

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

• Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to customer or other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

• May sit for extended periods of time.

• Moving between desk and file cabinets and/or office equipment.

• Substantial movement (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers to use a computer.

• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal.

• The employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, thoroughness of work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

About ChampionX

ChampionX is a global leader in providing chemistry programs and services, drilling technology, artificial lift solutions, and automation technologies for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. Our world-class safety culture fuels our purpose to improve lives through our commitment to deliver sustainable operations.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

At ChampionX, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every employee can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran. 

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce.  

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.