About this role
Job title: Sr. Maintenance Engineer
About the Role Lead the technical and administrative management of maintenance activities for production equipment to maximize safety, uptime, reliability, and cost effectiveness. This senior engineering role requires strong troubleshooting, solid understanding of maintenance KPIs, and the ability to drive preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies across the operation.
What You'll Do
- Develop, optimize, and govern preventive and predictive maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
- Monitor and analyze maintenance KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, uptime, PM compliance, breakdown frequency, spare parts consumption, maintenance cost) and translate data into actionable plans.
- Ensure accurate use of CMMS for work orders, asset history, PM plans, failure coding, backlog control, and maintenance reporting.
- Coordinate maintenance priorities with production, process, quality, engineering, and planning teams to protect output and product quality.
- Lead equipment upgrades, installations, commissioning, qualifications, and technical validations to ensure stable startup and long-term maintainability.
- Standardize maintenance procedures, troubleshooting guides, PM instructions, LOTO requirements, and critical settings for assigned equipment.
- Support spare parts strategy by defining critical spares, min/max levels, obsolescence risks, and technical specifications for replacement components.
- Mentor maintenance engineers and technicians through technical coaching, skills development, and disciplined problem-solving methods.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives using reliability, lean, TPM, RCM, FMEA, and RCA methodologies to improve performance, cost, and response time.
- Manage the administrative side of the department including planning, prioritization, documentation, contractor coordination, budget.
- Provide advanced technical support for mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, servo, control, and automation systems in production equipment.
- Lead complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis for chronic or critical equipment failures, and implement robust corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5–8 years of progressive experience in equipment maintenance engineering.
- Strong troubleshooting capability and solid understanding of maintenance KPIs; ability to drive preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies.
- Experience with maintenance planning and CMMS; ability to analyze and act on MTBF, MTTR, uptime, PM compliance, spare parts consumption, and maintenance cost data.
- Experience leading equipment upgrades, installations, commissioning, qualifications, and technical validations; ability to ensure stable startup and long-term maintainability.