Project Engineer – Leadership Development Program

Description

Pinnacle is committed to building future leaders through a dedicated career program where you are in control of your own professional journey. Whether you are interested in project management, solving critical problems, or working directly with the customer to understand their specific needs, we have the resources and opportunities to help you reach your goals.

At Pinnacle, our vision is to make the world reliable, one customer at a time.

What does Reliability mean to you? For Pinnacle, reliability means our customers can trust that their facilities operate when and how they are supposed to. With a focus on data, Pinnacle drives to increase safety, efficiency, and evolve facilities to an optimized state through reliability. Pinnacle serves a variety of Industries, including:
•Oil & Gas
• Food & Beverage
• Specialty & Petrochemical
• Pharmaceutical
• Mining
• Agriculture & Fertilizer
• Lumber
• Water & Wastewater

Rooted in exploration, we constantly seek innovative ways to enhance industrial reliability. By fostering team development and embracing growth, we deliver added value to customers, creating a lasting global impact. This commitment drives us to cultivate bold future leaders, continuously reshaping the understanding of reliability.

Innovation resides at the heart of our core values—excellence, impact, and growth—propelling us toward our vision.

Why Advance Your Career at Pinnacle?
Our people are our driving force, vital in realizing our goal of a more reliable world. We prioritize fostering professional growth, offering comprehensive onboarding, training, leadership programs, and continuous learning opportunities. At Pinnacle, you'll expand your horizons across disciplines, collaborating with diverse teams, and participating in the development of leading-edge solutions. Curiosity, engagement, and impact are celebrated traits here. We strive for excellence in everything and seek people who share this drive to join our team. Our collaborative work environment encourages employees to develop the tools and techniques that redefine what reliability means to the industry.

The Impact of a Reliability Data Analyst
As a Reliability Data Analyst (RDA), you’ll be exposed to programs like Mechanical Integrity (MI), Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Quantitative Reliability Optimization (QRO), technology development and implementation, and groundbreaking research and development opportunities. You will gain exposure to and will require growth in both project leadership and technical competencies.

The Impact of a Reliability Data Analyst

As a Reliability Data Analyst (RDA), you will expand on your professional experience by leveraging existing skills to contribute to new industries in numerous disciplines, such as, Mechanical Integrity (MI), Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Quantitative Reliability Optimization (QRO), technology development and implementation, and groundbreaking research and development opportunities. You will gain exposure to and will require growth in both project leadership and technical knowledge competencies.

Your job responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems using data and critical thinking while following Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP)
• Gather and organize design, operating, and maintenance data to make recommendations in reliability strategies, leveraging different software and technology.
• Analyze pertinent data to evaluate the consequence and probability of failures and overall risk levels for fixed and non-fixed assets across different types of units and facilities.
• Facilitate or participate in customer kickoff, update, and validation meetings for tasks such as process interviews, task selections, and other reliability focused deliverables
• Develop an individualized career plan for quick progression into the Project Management or Technical Excellence leadership paths.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
• 4+ years working in an industrial process facility, in the areas of reliability, operations, maintenance, or inspections.
• Ability to progress into a Sr. RDA position within 12-18 months and identify a defined career path
• Independent problem solver and high performing-team player.
• Ability to learn and understand technical literature, documents, and drawings (e.g., process descriptions, training manuals, P&IDs, etc.)
• Ability to write or learn to write technical documents (Technical Writing).
• Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills
• Commitment to relocate domestically or internationally (multiple locations) to a Pinnacle office or customer site or travel up to 50% based on project and customer needs.Locations could include, but are not limited to the following: Houston area (multiple locations), Chicago, IL, Salt Lake City, UT, Lake Charles, LA, Pascagoula, MS, The Netherlands, Canada, Germany
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; intermediate to advanced Excel skills preferred.
• Ability to pass background, drug screen and customer/site-specific safety training.Depending on project site assignment, may be subject to hair follicle
• Ability to obtain a TWIC card, if project location assignment requires.

Preferred Qualifications:

• IDMS and/or CMMS experience (SAP, Maximo, PCMS, AllAssets, GE/Meridium, etc.)
• Any of the following certifications:API 510/570/653API RP 580API 571CMRPPMP/CAPM

Direct reports:

• This role does not have direct reports, but as you grow and advance into Project Management or Technical excellence roles, you will potentially lead a team with multiple direct reports.

Benefits:

The Complete You

• Health, vision, and dental insurance, life insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off (PTO), nine paid holidays, 8 hours of volunteer paid time off (VPTO), and maternity and parental leave.

Campus Perks

• Onsite gym with full amenities, walking workstations, free parking, mini mart/snack machines, gourmet coffee machines, multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration areas, huddle rooms, deep workspaces, and lactation facilities.

Company Celebrations

• Quarterly town hall and fellowships, length of service awards where employees receive additional paid time off and bonuses to cover travel expenses for anniversary milestone trips (5, 10, and 15 years).

Empowering You for Success

• Opportunity to participate in customer-focused project management groups (PODs) that help facilitate collaboration and project support, access to company technology stack of Microsoft Office 365 Suite and MS Teams, comprehensive onboarding, on-demand training, regular lunch and learns, supervisor and accountability training, leadership development programs, continuous learning opportunities, and more.

About Pinnacle

Headquartered in Pasadena, Texas, Pinnacle is focused on helping industrial facilities improve reliability performance, resulting in increased production, optimized spend, and improved process safety and environmental impact. Pinnacle bridges the gap between data and reliability decisions by combining reliability engineering expertise with data science and technology. Pinnacle is privately held and has been consistently recognized for its growth by Inc. Magazine, the Houston Business Journal, and more.

Visa Sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with Pinnacle in the U.S. is required and the company will not pursue Visa sponsorship for this position.

Pinnacle participates in E-Verify, a federal government system used to verify employment authorization and social security number of each new employee.