Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Job description

Job description

Job Purpose:

The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and safe operation of plant equipment through effective preventive, predictive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance activities. The role supports continuous and efficient operation of the Soda Ash and Calcium Chloride plants by troubleshooting equipment failures, improving maintenance practices, coordinating maintenance execution, and supporting shutdowns, turnarounds, and reliability improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and execute preventive, predictive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance activities for plant equipment in accordance with approved maintenance strategies and schedules.

• Provide technical support for maintenance and troubleshooting of rotating and static equipment including pumps, compressors, gearboxes, conveyors, fans, blowers, heat exchangers, vessels, piping systems, valves, and other process equipment.

• Investigate equipment failures and recurring problems, perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and recommend corrective and preventive actions to improve equipment reliability.

• Monitor equipment condition and performance and coordinate predictive maintenance activities such as vibration monitoring, lubrication analysis, thermography, and condition inspections where applicable.

• Review maintenance notifications and work orders, define technical scope, and support preparation of job plans, manpower requirements, tools, spare parts, and technical documentation.

• Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance Planning teams to prioritize maintenance activities based on safety, equipment criticality, production requirements, and plant availability.

• Support shutdown and turnaround planning and execution, including scope preparation, technical review, inspection, maintenance execution, testing, and start-up support.

• Ensure maintenance activities are completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved procedures, equipment manuals, engineering standards, and OEM recommendations.

• Review equipment history and maintenance data to identify bad actors, repetitive failures, and opportunities for reliability and cost improvement.

• Provide technical input for equipment modifications, upgrades, replacement projects, and Management of Change (MOC) activities.

• Support commissioning, pre-commissioning, testing, and start-up of new or modified equipment and systems.

• Coordinate with Warehouse and Procurement regarding spare parts specifications, technical evaluation, material availability, and critical spare requirements.

• Maintain accurate equipment and maintenance records in SAP PM or the applicable CMMS, including work order history, failure data, technical findings, and recommendations.

• Monitor maintenance KPIs and contribute to initiatives aimed at reducing downtime, improving equipment availability, and optimizing maintenance costs.

Policies & Procedures:

• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with company HSE policies, maintenance procedures, permit- to-work requirements, isolation/LOTO procedures, and applicable engineering standards.

• Follow approved preventive, predictive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance procedures and ensure work is performed according to equipment specifications and OEM recommendations.

• Ensure maintenance work is properly documented and all technical records, inspection findings, and equipment history are maintained accurately.

• Support compliance with Management of Change (MOC), Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR), and other applicable plant safety and engineering procedures.

Budget:

• Provide technical input for annual maintenance budgets, spare parts requirements, equipment repair, and reliability improvement projects.

• Support preparation of cost estimates for maintenance activities, equipment repairs, replacements, and contractor services.

• Monitor maintenance expenditures related to assigned equipment and identify opportunities for cost optimization without compromising safety or reliability.

• Support evaluation of repair-versus-replacement decisions based on equipment condition, reliability, lifecycle cost, and operational impact.

Leadership:

• Provide technical guidance to maintenance technicians, supervisors, and contractors during maintenance and troubleshooting activities.

• Promote safe maintenance practices, equipment reliability, quality workmanship, and continuous improvement.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary maintenance activities and support effective collaboration between

Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Planning teams.

• Support development of maintenance personnel by sharing technical knowledge, lessons learned, and equipment best practices.

• Lead or participate in equipment failure investigations and reliability improvement initiatives.

Reporting:

• Prepare maintenance reports, equipment failure reports, RCA reports, technical recommendations, and equipment condition updates.

• Report critical equipment issues, maintenance risks, recurring failures, and required corrective actions to management.

• Provide updates on maintenance work order status, shutdown activities, equipment availability, and reliability improvement actions.

• Support reporting and monitoring of maintenance KPIs such as equipment availability, downtime, MTBF, MTTR, preventive maintenance compliance, and maintenance backlog.

Communication:

• Internal: Maintenance, Operations, Production, Planning, Reliability, Engineering, Inspection, HSE, Warehouse, Procurement, Projects, and Management.

• External: Equipment manufacturers, vendors, contractors, service providers, and technical suppliers.

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