Maintenance EngineerWhat You'll Be Doing You'll play a key role in helping our maintenance organization move from reactive to proactive by improving planning effectiveness, supporting predictive maintenance initiatives, optimizing downtime activities, and enhancing equipment reliability.
This position offers a unique blend of:
- Engineering problem-solving
- Maintenance strategy development
- Project coordination
- Data analysis
- Continuous improvement
- Cross-functional collaboration
Your work will help create safer operations, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and strengthen the overall performance of our manufacturing facility.
What Makes You Successful You are someone who:
- Enjoys working hands-on with manufacturing and maintenance teams
- Builds strong relationships and partnerships across departments
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Has an analytical mindset and enjoys tackling technical challenges
- Can influence others and drive positive change
- Values safety as the foundation of success
- Is motivated by continuous improvement and achieving measurable results
Why People Choose Garlock - A stable, growing organization with a strong reputation for excellence
- Meaningful work that directly impacts plant performance and customer success
- Opportunities to learn, grow, and advance your career
- Collaborative culture built on Safety, Excellence, and Respect
- The chance to make a visible difference in a critical engineering role
Build reliability. Drive improvement. Shape the future of manufacturing at Garlock. Apply today. Full Job Description JOB SUMMARY: The Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for developing cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work for the Palmyra campus. This person will lead the review of applicable maintenance procedures that promote defect-free maintenance work quality. A focus on continually improving planning, scheduling, data management and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency. A successful Maintenance Engineer will collaborate with maintenance supervision, Operations Leaders, and other maintenance team members to schedule manpower and resource for planned maintenance work.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Maintain equipment and tooling in a state of compliance with specifications, fit, form, and contamination standards
- Lead through influence skilled trades/maintenance personnel to evaluate controls and mechanical requirements for maintaining and improving production yields, efficiency, and up time
- Analyze equipment performance and work to improve efficiencies; actively participate in Constraint Review Process
- Perform safety inspections to identify and ensure that safety hazards/unsafe practices are promptly corrected
- Meet PM, downtime, inventory, cost, scrap, supply, and tooling expense targets
- Create and sustain predictive maintenance programs; preparing for and fully utilizing down time
- Assist and teach maintenance troubleshooting techniques to improve mean time between failure and mean time to repair
- Partner with Maintenance Supervisor on preventive maintenance schedules, preventive and predictive inspections, and repairs to minimize down time
- Control and monitor oil, water, and energy usage
QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Ability to establish strong relationships with all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to manage through competing priorities and requests
- Ability to lead through influence and assess department and operational priorities
- Complete all job duties with the highest level of safety
- General computer competency for email and office programs required. Skills with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and Oracle desired.
- Experience in Process, Manufacturing, Facilities, or Maintenance Engineering.
WORKING CONDITIONS: Manufacturing Environment with variations in temperature and light.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: - Light to moderate physical effort (lifts / carry up to 25 pounds).
- Frequent prolonged standing/walking. Lifts supplies/equipment.
- Pushes/pulls or moves/lifts heavy equipment/supplies.
- Occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling,
- Far Acuity: ability to see clearly at 20 feet or more.
- Near Acuity: ability to see clearly at 20 inches or less.
- Depth Perception: ability to judge distance and space relationships.
- Field of Vision: ability to see peripherally.
- Accommodation: ability to adjust vision to bring objects into focus.
- Color Vision: ability to distinguish and identify different colors.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
