Posted 10 days ago
Equipment Maintenance Engineer
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Responsible for checking, repairing, and servicing industrial machinery and equipment to ensure reliable manufacturing operations, including troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and equipment modifications.
About this role
The Equipment Maintenance Engineer is responsible for checking, repairing and servicing machinery, equipment, systems and infrastructures to ensure that industrial machinery and equipment runs smoothly and reliably.
General Responsibilities
• Key participant in electrical or mechanical troubleshooting to determine problems in non-functioning electro-mechanical equipment used in the manufacturing process
• Key participant in dismantles, adjusts, repairs and assembles equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, operating or repair manuals, rough sketches or drawings
• Uses test and diagnostic equipment to perform checkouts
• Organizes rebuilds manufacturing equipment as required. May perform equipment modifications as directed by manufacturing engineers
Experience / Qualifications
• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Must be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
• Holds self-accountable to achieving goals and standards
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers
Additional Responsibilities / Qualifications
- This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of manufacturing equipment used in production.
- The successful candidate will lead equipment troubleshooting, preventive and corrective maintenance activities, and support equipment commissioning, upgrades, and modifications to minimize downtime and improve operational efficiency.
- Candidates should be comfortable working closely with Operations, Process Engineering, and Quality teams to improve equipment performance, maximize uptime, and support production goals.
The ideal candidate will have -
- Hands-on experience maintaining and improving production equipment in a manufacturing environment, with exposure to automation and PLC-controlled systems.
- Strong electro-mechanical troubleshooting skills, experience driving equipment reliability improvements.
- Proven ability to support breakdown maintenance and root cause analysis are highly desirable.
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