Maintenance Mechanical Engineer - Manufacturing Plant Maintenance

Arrow Specialties USA, LLC

Richmond, VA

Estimated pay: Est. $34–$41/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Shift: Full time

**Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - Manufacturing**

Position: **Full Time, Salaried, (Exempt role with annual bonus incentive)**

Schedule**: Days - With possible on call for troubleshooting**

Location: **Spruance Manufacturing Plant Site**

**5401 Jefferson Davis Highway,** **Richmond, Virginia 23234**

www.

ARCLIN.

com

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer: *Resolve equipment issues. Strengthen reliability. Improve mechanical performance.*

**The role**

The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer leads mechanical engineering support for plant issues affecting production and equipment performance over the short and medium term. The role serves as the technical expert for resolving equipment-based and repair-technique-based issues that affect facility availability and maintainability. The engineer provides subject matter expertise during equipment-failure and root-cause investigations, supports Mechanical Integrity Quality Assurance, contributes maintenance input to projects and turnarounds, and performs regular field assessments of mechanical equipment.

*This role reports to the Spruance* Maintenance Technical Leader in support of Continuous Manufacturing Maintenance / Reliability

**What you will own**

MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT SUPPORT

• Provide mechanical engineering support for plant issues that affect production, equipment availability and maintainability.
• Serve as the technical authority for mechanical equipment failures, repair methods and restoration strategies.
• Perform regular field assessments of mechanical equipment and translate observations into corrective actions, work scopes or reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts to define work scopes, evaluate options and drive practical solutions.

FAILURE ANALYSIS & RELIABILITY

• Serve as a subject matter expert in equipment failures and repair techniques during root-cause investigations.
• Apply root-cause analysis, risk-assessment principles, reliability engineering principles, statistical analysis and reliability modeling as appropriate.
• Provide input to the Reliability Bad Actors List and help prioritize corrective actions based on risk, production impact, cost and asset utilization.
• Use available maintenance and condition-monitoring information to identify recurring failure patterns and improve equipment strategies.
• Provide input to the Mechanical Integrity Quality Assurance process and support compliance with applicable mechanical integrity requirements.

PROCEDURES & WORK QUALITY

• Develop and sustain the maintenance procedure-use approach for mechanical work.
• Perform technical reviews of maintenance procedures, Standard Practices and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Serve as a technical resource during procedure creation and revision; create and review job procedures and checklists.
• Initiate the applicable Management of Change process when mechanical procedures, repair methods, equipment configurations or technical requirements change.
• Define clear scopes of work and provide technical direction that supports safe, repeatable and high-quality maintenance execution.

PROJECTS, TURNAROUNDS & IMPROVEMENT

• Provide maintenance input to project activities and serve as the maintenance representative for capital projects involving mechanical equipment.
• Develop turnaround scopes and support turnaround planning, execution and closeout activities.
• Use economic-evaluation tools to compare repair, replacement and improvement options.
• Improve bills of material and equipment information in SAP to support planning, maintenance and reliability.
• Align mechanical maintenance recommendations with site maintenance goals, cost expectations, asset-utilization objectives and the Arclin Maintenance Work Process.

**What you bring**

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline required.
• Zero to five years of manufacturing, maintenance, reliability or related experience required.
• Experience supporting mechanical equipment in a manufacturing or industrial environment preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Knowledge of mechanical equipment, equipment-failure mechanisms, repair techniques and maintainability principles.
• Skill in creating and reviewing technical procedures, Standard Practices, Standard Operating Procedures, job procedures and checklists.
• Working knowledge of SAP, including bill-of-material improvement, and other maintenance information systems.
• Knowledge of risk-assessment principles, root-cause analysis, scope development and economic-evaluation tools.
• Knowledge of maintenance work processes, reliability networks, maintenance cost, asset utilization and goal alignment.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, including statistical analysis and reliability modeling.
• Strong field-observation, analytical, technical writing and cross-functional communication skills.

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