Chief Engineer

Job Description

HALIFAX LINEN SERVICE

Chief Engineer

Roanoke Rapids, NC | Technical Leadership, Reliability, People Development

Halifax Linen Service is seeking a Chief Engineer to own the reliability, technical capability, and life cycle performance of our equipment, facilities, utilities, and technical infrastructure. This is not simply a senior maintenance technician position. We are seeking a hands-on technical leader who can build a disciplined maintenance organization, develop people, improve reliability, strengthen maintenance systems, exercise sound engineering judgment, and protect Halifax’s capital investment.

• Equipment reliability and structured diagnosis of significant and recurring failures.
• Leadership, accountability, and technical development of the maintenance team.
• Discipline and effectiveness of Halifax’s maintenance management system (HAM), including work orders, asset history, PM/PdM, backlog, labor, parts usage, and failure documentation.
• Preventive and predictive maintenance strategy that measurably reduces failures and unplanned downtime.
• Maintenance, reliability, engineering, utilities, facilities technical systems, and technical infrastructure.
• Repair-versus-replace analysis, equipment lifecycle decisions, capital recommendations, installations, and commissioning.
• Technical vendor relationships, engineering resources, critical-spare strategy, and partnership with the Parts Coordinator on purchasing and inventory execution.
• Safe maintenance practices and technical compliance, including electrical safety, Lockout/Tagout, machine guarding, hot work, boilers/pressure vessels, and related inspections.
• Cross-functional partnership with Operations and Production while maintaining clear engineering and reliability ownership.

• 5-7 years of industrial mechanical/electrical maintenance, engineering, or closely related experience.
• Progressive maintenance leadership responsibility, including direct leadership and development of technical employees.
• Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting capability with exposure to PLCs, VFDs, HMIs, sensors, I/O, motor controls, and industrial controls.
• Experience with CMMS/work-order systems and disciplined preventive/predictive maintenance programs.
• Demonstrated use of structured troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis.
• Experience with major equipment installations, commissioning, vendors, contractors, or capital projects.
• Ability to make difficult technical and business decisions under pressure and communicate clearly with production, maintenance, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Curiosity, learning agility, and the ability to become deeply knowledgeable about unfamiliar equipment and systems.

Experience in a manufacturing or industrial production environment is strongly valued. Commercial laundry, textile, uniform, apparel, or linen experience is valuable but not required. Experience with boilers/steam, industrial utilities, material handling, highly automated production equipment, and multi-site facilities is a plus.

The Chief Engineer reports to the Vice President of Operations. The Chief Engineer owns maintenance, reliability, engineering, utilities, and technical infrastructure and works as a peer functional leader with the Plant Manager, who owns production execution and custodial/housekeeping operations.

Company Description

Since 1946, Halifax Linen Service has provided uniform and linen programs and services across the Southeast. Our operations combine advanced laundry systems, high-tech production equipment, RFID solutions, hygienic processing, and technology-driven textile services.

Benefits

• 401(K)
• Dental Insurance
• Major Medical
• Paid time Off (PTO)
• Vision Insurance
• Short Term Disability