Mechanical Engineer

Overview

Cleveland-Cliffs has an immediate opportunity for a Mechanical Engineer at our Toledo, OH HBI location. The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for providing maintenance engineering support to ensure plant equipment availability is maximized. This position will be responsible for support to the operation through analysis of equipment health and recommending strategies to increase the time between overhauls. This role serves as a technical resource for planning, scheduling, and execution of mechanical maintenance.

This position will be responsible for supporting plant reliability using knowledge of mechanical systems to troubleshoot and decrease lost opportunities.

• Provide engineering design and specifications for mechanical equipment and systems including but not limited to rotating equipment, piping systems, vessels, conveyors and other mechanical equipment
• Utilize various reliability tools in support of continuous improvement including leading or supporting key activities of the reliability program
• Apply education to become familiar with and apply corrosion and metallurgy requirements imposed by codes, specifications and guidelines developed by organizations such as but not limited to NACE, API, ASME, ANSI, and others.
• Flag and advise the production team with regard to risks related to equipment reliability, process equipment availability, and mechanical integrity
• Maintain a unit availability perspective and an equipment reliability strategy; document problematic equipment and provide input and context to operational and maintenance activities
• Establish Key Processing “Best Practices” to improve profitability, including operating conditions, hardware change recommendations, monitoring process conditions, and unit performance reporting/comparison (benchmarking).
• Evaluate existing system and component capabilities by analyzing data utilizing engineering software
• Review data from preventative maintenance activities and operations, monitoring those activities for effectiveness and if applicable, frequency, and making changes as necessary
• Be the lead on specific predictive technologies such as NDE/NDT, oil analysis, vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasonics and motor circuit analysis
• Analyze operational and maintenance equipment history to deliver improvements in critical maintenance related metrics and KPI’s
• Perform Root Cause Analysis in support of operational event and equipment failure investigations to ensure that the root cause/causal factors have been identified, corrective actions prescribed and follow-up monitoring conducted as applicable to determine effectiveness
• Provide mechanical technical guidance and assistance with trouble-shooting to Shift Supervisors and Mechanical Craft people on a daily basis
• Conduct studies and prepare reports on project cost projections and potential cost-saving projects
• Prepare capital expenditure documentation and justification
• Act as a liaison with third party service providers for oil, vibration, and thermography
• Maintain equipment register; adds, subtracts, change standard jobs and maintenance scheduling tasks
• Write work orders and provide input to execution of work where required
• Direct and coordinate the work performed by operating employees as required for new equipment installations or testing to ensure conformity to engineering design and specifications
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 3+ years of plant-level maintenance mechanical engineering experience with mechanical systems in the petrochemical, metals, or mineral processing industry.
• Knowledge of machinery design, statistics and project management required
• High proficiency while working within the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and utilizes its functionality to correlate the data for reliability analysis
• Experience in predictive technologies such as NDE/NDT, oil analysis, vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasonics, and motor circuit analysis
• Effectively communicate both orally and through written text
• Ability to read and constructively influence personnel in cross functional groups
• Ability to…