Plant Engineer

Position Summary

The Plant Engineer will lead a small team of maintenance employees at the facility, champion design and application of plant improvement projects, efforts to identify and eliminate equipment failures through Preventative Maintenance, Root Cause Problem Elimination, ongoing training, education, and equipment modifications.

Summary of essential job functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Additional duties may be assigned.

· Design and implement plant improvement projects.

· Submit and manage an annual maintenance and capital expenditure budget.

· Collect, analyze, and use data and statistical methods to make objective and informed decisions and improve processes to meet Corporate and Plant Objectives.

· Prepare reports to be submitted to the Facility Manager for Executive review.

· Direct and supervise reliability program activities designed to achieve the goals of the plant reliability program including mobile asset management.

· Assure predictive and preventative maintenance activities and support the overall reliability program.

· Manage and report KPIs detailing all the managed programs and activities’ execution and efficiency.

· Provide direction and leadership to Maintenance personnel with a focus on company’s Core Values and Culture, provide individual expectations, feedback on performance, and when necessary, discipline to correct unacceptable behavior.

· Work closely with operations team and corporate departments to ensure equipment reliability is considered throughout all project phases, equipment procurement and changes, maintenance vendor selection, spare part selection and stocking.

· Develop and adopt standards that improve equipment reliability, including but not limited to areas such as PM, RCPE, equipment procurement, stocked parts, rebuilds by equipment type, installation, and work execution.

· Review installation drawings and specifications and recommend what preventative maintenance actions should be used for new installations and modifications.

· Provide technical assistance to maintenance personnel and operations departments on equipment and reliability issues and technologies.

· Recommend innovative solutions to increase equipment and facility life and to reduce maintenance costs through the analysis of repetitive equipment failures and breakdowns.

· Perform Root Cause Problem Elimination for equipment failures.

· Submit and manage an annual maintenance and capital expenditure budget.

· Complete first aid and CPR training and act as a First Responder during plant emergencies.