Maintenance Reliability Engineer
Mitsubishi Chemical · LaPorte, TX
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $130k–$140k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level reliability role at Mitsubishi Chemical (chemicals) in LaPorte, TX. You will.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FMEA
- Base pay
- $130k–$140k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $124k–$135k. This one lists $130k–$140k.
Median of the low and high ends of 9 live postings that list pay, out of 55 reliability engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 54 other live reliability postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- About 27% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 4+)
Typical $91k–$121k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 47%
- SAP 25%
- Automation 25%
- Team leadership 24%
- ✓ FMEA 22%
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Full description from Mitsubishi ChemicalAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
are incorporated into equipment design and installation.
- ✓Develop concepts and technical documentation for maintenance-related equipment repairs, replacements, and improvements.
- ✓Support equipment checkout, commissioning, and start-up activities.
- ✓Participate in Process Hazard Analyses, safety audits, and incident investigations as needed.
- ✓Maintain equipment documentation, engineering files, procedures, specifications, and drawings to support long-term mechanical integrity.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
- ✓Root Cause Failure Analysis training
- ✓Experience with centrifugal and positive displacement pumps
- ✓Experience supporting mechanical reliability improvements within a PSM-covered chemical or process manufacturing facility
Why This Role?
This isn't a reliability position where you'll spend all day analyzing data from behind a desk. You'll have the opportunity to be visible in the plant, work directly with the equipment, partner with experienced maintenance professionals, and solve real mechanical reliability challenges.
If you're a Mechanical Engineer who enjoys understanding why equipment fails—and figuring out how to keep it from happening again—we'd love to hear from you.
responsibilities
of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary may also be subject to geographic adjustment if authorization is granted to work outside of the posted location.
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Company
Soarnol
Job Description
Maintenance Reliability Engineer
Are you a Mechanical Engineer who enjoys getting out from behind the desk, troubleshooting equipment, and solving reliability challenges where your work has a direct impact on plant performance?
Mitsubishi Chemical America is looking for a Maintenance Reliability Engineer to join our SoarnoL team in La Porte, Texas . This is an opportunity to take ownership of equipment reliability while working closely with Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering in a hands-on chemical manufacturing environment.
This role is ideal for an engineer who combines strong mechanical fundamentals with practical field experience. You'll spend approximately 50% of your time focused on reliability initiatives, 30–40% supporting equipment and troubleshooting in the field, and the remainder supporting reliability and capital projects.
As a key mechanical and reliability resource for the site, you will
- •Troubleshoot mechanical equipment issues alongside Maintenance and Operations, providing second-level technical support when problems require engineering expertise.
- •Improve the reliability and performance of both rotating and stationary equipment, including pumps, mechanical seals, bearings, blowers, piping, valves, tanks, and pressure vessels.
- •Investigate recurring equipment failures and develop practical, sustainable solutions that improve equipment performance and reduce downtime.
- •Apply maintenance and reliability best practices, including Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), FMEA, and asset criticality principles.
- •Support mechanical systems and reliability-related Management of Change (MOC) activities.
- •Partner with the Engineering team on capital projects to ensure maintenance and reliability
What We're Looking For
- •Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- •5+ years of mechanical engineering experience in a chemical plant environment
- •Strong hands-on experience maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, overhauling, or installing rotating machinery and stationary equipment
- •Working knowledge of pumps, mechanical seals, bearings, piping, valves, tanks, and pressure vessels
- •Knowledge of maintenance and reliability best practices
- •Understanding of Process Safety Management (PSM), particularly as it relates to mechanical and asset integrity
- •Experience with reliability methodologies such as RCM, FMEA, asset criticality, or root cause analysis
- •Ability to work effectively across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and SHE teams