K.C. Murray Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Responsible for managing routine maintenance of all refinery fixed equipment (heaters, exchangers, piping, and valves) and rotating equipment. Works with Engineering and Reliability to assist in producing and implementing solutions and improvements as part of equipment maintenance and repairs. Communicates results and solutions to operations and refinery leadership team. Helps in managing refinery turnaround work, and responsible for refinery routine maintenance budget.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Provides reliability technical and engineering services to optimize fixed and rotating equipment run time. Services assigned areas of responsibility by providing technical assistance in resolving equipment design, operational, and maintenance issues. Assists in formulating, implementing, maintaining, and auditing Preventative Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Diagnostic Maintenance (PdM) programs. Assists Operations, Product Control, and Maintenance in developing procedures, training, and processes to ensure equipment is operated within its design parameters. Advises engineering on new capital designs and installations to ensure that equipment reliability, operability, and maintainability are addressed. Develops and reviews equipment specifications, standards, and cost justifications for reliability improvement.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Responsible for managing routine maintenance of fixed equipment such as heaters, exchangers, piping, valves, and other equipment. Work with Engineering and Reliability to assist in producing solutions and improvements as part of equipment maintenance and repairs. Communicate results and solutions to operations and management personnel through weekly status reports.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Responsible for supervision of rotating and reciprocating equipment maintenance personnel. Provide Operations and Management with weekly rotating equipment activity schedule. Coordinate with contract supervisors and schedule work in conjunction with Operations and Engineering counterparts. Participate in root cause analysis of rotating equipment failures, including scheduling and facilitating meetings to review data. Assist in producing solutions and improvements as part of equipment maintenance and repairs. Work and coordinate with Engineering and Reliability personnel to identify and eliminate rotating equipment “worst actors”. Planned, executed, provided cost estimates, and monitored compliance on several complete and major overhauls on reciprocating and rotating compressors on process units. Communicate results and solutions to maintenance, engineering, operations, and management personnel through weekly status reports.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Responsible for rotating equipment reliability including: Root cause analysis and classification of all rotating equipment failures, documentation of all rotating equipment repair histories, rotating equipment design review, quality control, routine surveillance and diagnosis of rotating equipment, and implementation of machinery protection systems. Performed centrifugal pump, reciprocating and centrifugal compressor, fan, blower, and turbine/generator troubleshooting. Worked with Engineering to implement reliability improvement projects on rotating equipment. Issued quarterly report for area’s rotating equipment failures.

New Orleans, La, Us

Provided rotating equipment technical and diagnostic support to three fossil-fired power plants. Served as Engineering Project Manager on turbine supervisory instrumentation project, plant chlorination system upgrade, and high pressure boiler feed water pump project. Made redline modifications to existing CAD drawings for engineering projects. Conducted status report meetings with plant management. Wrote contracts and bid specifications for rotating equipment projects. Conducted various diagnostic tests to assess plant machinery performance and reliability. Conducted pump performance and reliability testing. Member of a Plant Reliability Team that monitored performance of critical machinery through vibration data collection and analysis. Chief contact for rotating equipment during unplanned outages. Experience in alignment and balance issues. Responsible for troubleshooting pump, motor, fan, and blower issues. Worked on various other reliability projects, including: valve head/screen removal, repair and reinstallation on turbine stop valves and reheat control valves; full train steam turbine/generator inspection and repair (GE and Westinghouse machines); balance of multi-stage turbine rotor prior to startup; and forced draft fan and air pre-heater balance and repair.