Maintenance Engineer

Drive reliability, equipment performance, and continuous improvement in a hands-on engineering role where you’ll work closely with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of critical manufacturing equipment.

Pay
: $95K - $125K (Dependent on experience level)

Direct Hire

Location
:
Ouachita Parish, LA | Relocation Assistance Available

Schedule: Day Shift | Mon-Thurs, Every other Friday | On call as needed

Responsibilities

• Develop engineering solutions to equipment issues and recurring failures, with a focus on long‑term reliability.
• Lead and support reliability‑centered maintenance programs and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and implement corrective actions to prevent recurring equipment and safety issues.
• Troubleshoot complex mechanical and reliability issues involving rotating and fixed industrial equipment.
• Analyze equipment history and predictive maintenance data, including vibration and oil analysis, to identify potential failures and prioritize maintenance.
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, vendors, and contractors on reliability and capital improvement projects.
• Support annual shutdown planning, including job planning, resource coordination, and budgeting.
• Maintain equipment and maintenance strategies within the site's CMMS and develop repair standards, procedures, and equipment documentation.
• Facilitate equipment criticality assessments and apply reliability and total‑cost‑of‑ownership principles to repair, replacement, and improvement decisions.
• Support the reliability and maintainability of new and modified equipment installations.
• Provide technical guidance and training to maintenance technicians and engineering personnel.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve equipment reliability, maintenance efficiency, and overall plant performance.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure maintenance activities follow established safety standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Open to early‑career engineers as well as candidates with more extensive industry experience.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and interest in rotating and fixed industrial equipment.
• Experience or exposure to rotating equipment such as pumps, compressors, turbines, reciprocating equipment, or similar machinery.
• Experience with fixed equipment such as heat exchangers, tanks, boilers, or pressure vessels is a plus.
• Chemical manufacturing or other industrial/manufacturing experience preferred; relevant experience from other industries will be considered.
• Familiarity with preventive/predictive maintenance and reliability engineering principles.
• Experience with vibration monitoring, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasonics, or similar predictive maintenance technologies is a plus.
• Familiarity with SAP or another CMMS is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication, and organizational skills.