Mechanical Engineer - Morgantown, PA

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for safety design modifications and improvements to equipment and facilities.
• Responsible for safety investigations and corrective actions.
• Responsible for developing, documenting, and improving preventive maintenance programs in order to support the improvement of equipment availability and throughput.
• Responsible for developing, documenting, and improving predictive maintenance programs using predictive failure techniques such as vibration analysis, thermo-graphic imaging, etc.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for equipment failures and loss of production. Assist maintenance and provide technical guidance required to return equipment to operation so as to minimize downtime and lost production. Provide “on call” support.
• Responsible for analyzing production delay data for establishing and documenting or modifying preventive maintenance tasks. Generate continuous improvement projects based on production delay data.
• Prepare and review equipment failure/root cause analysis reports and determine/evaluate corrective action items and the impact of corrective action items to the preventive maintenance programs.
• Develop cost justifications for improvement projects and corrective actions.
• Develop work orders to detail work requests needed to implement improvements projects or corrective actions. Follow-up and audit to ensure proper completion.
• Coordinate outside contractor work activities with maintenance personnel or production personnel as required to minimize impacts to cost and production.
• Responsible for critical spare parts assessments and parts standardization.
• Responsible for developing and implementing standard operating procedures, training, and skill development for all personnel.
• Determine and install appropriate performance metrics that will promote long-term continuous improvement programs consistent with the operating objectives of the department.
• Provides support for problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships.
• Perform Project Engineering duties.
• Fill in for the Supervisors or Department Manager as required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline
• Formal training or experience with Preventive and Predictive Maintenance programs.
• Maintenance Engineering or Maintenance Supervisor with a minimum of 3-5 years of proven experience