WHAT DOES A FACILITY ENGINEER DO?
Updated: Jun 13, 2025 - The Facility Engineer maximizes equipment reliability through proactive monitoring and continuous improvement proposals. Coordinates design, construction, and maintenance to enhance productivity and equipment functionality. Ensures compliance with environmental standards and operational procedures, managing documentation and optimizing cost-efficiency in plant operations.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Facility Engineer
1. Facility Engineer Duties
- Leadership: Provide leadership and strong advocacy for process and personal safety.
- Review: Provide engineering reviews in the MOC process for all changes associated with the operating assets. Review and sign off on the completion of Pre-Startup Safety Reviews that are directly supported.
- Standardization: Lead efforts to ensure modifications, designs, and construction standards for equipment are fully understood and effectively run through the management of change (MOC) process.
- Risk Management: Lead and/or participate in Risk Assessments, PHA/LOPA, and Incident Investigations/Learning Teams.
- Program Management: Support the management of the mechanical integrity programs and steward the execution and follow-up actions of Mechanical Integrity inspections across all Crestwood PSM/RMP facilities.
- Compliance: Act as key interface to ensure regulatory and HSE compliance for Asset Integrity functional support.
- Technical Support: Provide technical expertise to support the facility in adhering to environmental, safety, and regulatory policies, codes, and standards.
- Solution Development: Develop and implement solutions for the facility maintenance and operational issues as directed by management.
- Troubleshooting: With operations personnel, help troubleshoot minor process issues to identify and implement solutions.
- Resource Management: With operations personnel, identify resources and develop budget estimates necessary to ensure that operational needs/improvements and integrity threats are prioritized and appropriately addressed.
- Procedure Development: Develop or update operating and maintenance procedures and then assist with implementing the new changes with Operations
2. Facility Engineer Details
- Monitoring: Maximise equipment reliability and availability through monitoring plant reliability.
- Improvement Proposal: Propose improvements for line management consideration.
- Data Analysis: Gather, collate, and analyse data in the maintenance management system, identify opportunities and make proposals for continuous improvement in maintenance service delivery, reliability, and availability.
- Documentation Management: Ensure all plant documentation is available to plant management, including plant specifications, certificates, process documentation to ensure plant and equipment can be used and function in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Project Coordination: Plan, direct, and coordinate activities concerned with design, construction, modification, and maintenance of plant, equipment, and machinery to improve productivity, reliability, and availability.
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitor pollution control, installation, modification, quality control, testing, operating procedure, inspection, and maintenance of plant and equipment, and report areas or instances of non-compliance.
- Contract Preparation: Prepare bid sheets and contracts for supply of new or modification and extension of existing plant and equipment to improve functionality or performance.
- Equipment Testing: Test newly installed machines and equipment to ensure fulfillment of contract specifications.
- Cost Estimation: Estimate the cost of products, services, and facility of plant and equipment, and evaluate and implement cost-savings and cost-saving methods for plant and equipment.
- Schedule Review: Review existing production schedules and prioritise projects based on resources, current methods, and company requirements.
3. Facility Engineer Responsibilities
- Technical Support: Provide technical engineering support to VEN and represent facility engineering in necessary multi-discipline meetings at all stages of project development.
- Contractor Review: Review and work with independent 3rd party engineering contractors in all aspects of facility layout, design, and specification.
- Design Optimization: Review third-party designs and optimize as required to ensure that VEN best practices and standards are met.
- Technical Participation: Provide technical input and participate in drawing reviews, HAZOPS, HAZIDS, WHATIF analysis, SIMOPS, etc., and provide technical feedback from a facility, process, mechanical or civil aspects.
- In-house Engineering: Complete engineering in-house when applicable.
- Safety Assurance: Use technical knowledge to ensure that safety, compliance, and operability are achieved on all projects.
- Operations Management: Be responsible for day-to-day facility operations and maintenance, including lab, manufacturing plant, and utility plant.
- Project Assistance: Assist in managing the implementation of new construction projects, including design, permit applications, construction (especially clean room construction), system testing, and commissioning.
- Team Management: Manage the facility operation & maintenance team, suppliers, and contractors.
- System Improvement: Improve facility system reliability and efficiency.
4. Facility Engineer Accountabilities
- Compliance: Comply with BD quality system, cGMP, Health & Safety and Environmental standards, and GDP.
- Core Values Alignment: Perform all duties in line with Company core values.
- Maintenance Oversight: Day-to-day maintenance/inspection of all site plants.
- SAP Proficiency: Complete maintenance tasks and ordering of spare parts via SAP.
- Rota Participation: Participate in site call-out rota.
- Specification Development: Prepare user requirement specifications and functional specifications, including HVAC, architecture, and utilities to meet the GMP requirements.
- Stakeholder Communication: Communicate with various stakeholders, including external contractors and suppliers.
- Technical Review: Review technical documents, provide specification and design requirement to consultant, review and confirm the drawings.
- Validation Support: Participate and support the Validation Team for all FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ, and PQ activities.
- Project Participation: Participate in new manufacturing plant projects, including but not limited to the laboratory, production line.
5. Facility Engineer Functions
- HVAC Management: Manage AHUs (Air Handling units) and Chillers.
- Electrical Management: Manage electrical devices/equipment such as transformers and power distribution panels.
- Supplier Coordination: Contact local gas supplier, issue PR and perform gas bottle replacement.
- Maintenance Scheduling: Maintains facility equipment and devices according to PM schedule.
- Equipment Maintenance: Filter cleaning, pump overhaul and replacement of lights, security system, fire alarm, and so on.
- Facility Oversight: Landscape management and dormitory.
- Quality Inspection: Regularly inspect the construction and installation progress for conformance to established drawings and specifications.
- Labor Management: Manage 3rd party laborers like security guards and janitors.
- Risk Assessment: Conduct EH&S risk assessment and control near-miss responder through facility service request site.
- Training Delivery: Perform legal training to all employees (Firefighting, sex harassment, Safety, Privacy protecting act, etc.).
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitors company environmental safety programs and policies to ensure compliance with local environmental, health, safety and industrial health regulations and maintains liaison with appropriate regulatory agencies.
- Training Participation: Participate in legally required training for firefighting code, refrigerating machine, elevator safety, electrical safety, environmental and health.