Kyle McGinley

Maintenance Engineer @Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

Baytown, TX, US

Owned analysis of SAP maintenance and failure data to identify bad actors and chronic failure modes, driving mitigation actions that reduced repeat maintenance and improved equipment reliability (maintenance rework program)• Developed and led a maintenance engineering best practice team, setting standards to simplify critical engineering tasks and improve consistency of maintenance execution• Led plant wide rotating equipment PM strategy for 610 high criticality assets, eliminating low value preventive tasks and aligning maintenance activities with failure modes to reduce unnecessary maintenance cost while improving reliability (PM optimization)• Organized maintenance outages by identifying and freezing scope with stakeholders, creating high level maintenance schedules, and controlling and managing costs• Led safety critical activities including JSAs, hazard evaluations, PSSRs, MOC reviews, permit audits, and hot bolt/in-service-welding risk assessments to support safe maintenance execution• Led as STAR (Safety Together Achieves Results) team leader to direct group to execute safety projects and influence safety culture among maintenance engineering STAR team• Developed alternate MOC pathways for steam traps and flanges, reducing administrative burden while maintaining risk visibility and compliance• Managed base maintenance costs by tracking and following medium and high dollar items and routing approvals for expenditure to leadership• Developed and revised critical maintenance procedures to improve safety, consistency, and execution quality• Assisted contractors with daily/emergency needs including spec questions, torque/gasket calculations, and planning support• Mentored junior engineers and set expectations for maintenance engineering rigor, improving technical consistency and decision quality across the team

Purdue University

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering