What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Inspector position at Flint Hills?
Your Job
Flint Hills Resources is seeking a Senior Inspector to join our Corpus Christi Refinery, where you will play a critical role in improving asset reliability and influencing key business decisions that impact safety, cost, and operational performance.
In this role, you will help improve the refinery's competitive position by reducing EH&S risk through sustainable compliance programs and optimizing the availability and lifecycle cost of fixed assets. You will provide technical insight, condition assessments, and recommendations that enable informed, risk-based decisions across the organization.
You will be empowered to integrate safety, environmental, and reliability-based thinking into asset management decisions, align recommendations with business and risk priorities, and partner with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to drive safe, reliable, and cost-effective outcomes.
Our Team
You will join a team focused on maintaining and improving the reliability and integrity of fixed equipment across a highly complex refining operation. This team collaborates closely with operations, maintenance, and engineering to influence key asset decisions and deliver safe, compliant, and economically sound solutions.
This role provides the opportunity to directly impact business performance while working alongside experienced professionals in inspection, reliability, and asset management.
What You Will Do
- Maintain and continuously improve Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) data to support effective risk management decisions
- Ensure the mechanical integrity of fixed equipment and piping in accordance with API 510, API 570, and RBI standards
- Analyze inspection and thickness data to develop turnaround scope, maintenance strategies, and inspection interval recommendations
- Scope, perform, and coordinate inspection activities for turnarounds and routine maintenance events
- Provide actionable inspection findings and repair recommendations that enable safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations
- Develop repair strategies for pressure vessels and piping in accordance with applicable codes (API 510/NBIC/API 570)
- Identify damage mechanisms and evaluate corrosion rates and equipment susceptibility to inform long-term asset strategies
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- API 510 and API 570 certification
- At least seven (7) years of relevant inspection experience or equivalent experience in a related mechanical integrity role
What Will Put You Ahead
- Ten (10) or more years of experience in refining or a heavy industrial environment
- API 580 and API 571 certifications
- Experience applying Risk-Based Inspection methodologies and using PVcalc or similar software
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field of study
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products through 4,000 miles of pipeline - delivering energy to farmers, manufacturers and families. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).