Mechanical Engineer

Location:

United States of America, West Virginia, Ravenswood. Division:
Metals. Company:
Ravenswood. Function:
Engineering. Workplace Type:
On‑Site. Position Type:
Full Time.

Responsible for engineering activities to maximize safety, quality and productivity in the daily maintenance of plant equipment in order to drive continuous improvements to equipment availability and throughput.

• 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 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 improvement 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.

• Work with planning to prepare, coordinate and maintain schedules for extended production outages and major maintenance work.
• Work with maintenance supervisors and department managers to determine priorities and establish schedules.
• Support the management and maintaining of the information required for utilizing the plant computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Work with maintenance craftsmen and operations to resolve equipment failures.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or technical discipline related to maintenance.
• Formal training or experience with Preventive and Predictive Maintenance programs.
• Maintenance Engineering or Maintenance Supervisor position with a minimum of 1‑3 years of proven experience.

• Ability to provide leadership.
• Expertise, knowledge and training in engineering and maintenance.
• Extensive knowledge and training in product manufacturing.
• General knowledge of manufacturing processes involved in manufacturing of forged or flat rolled metal products.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• General traits such as action oriented, conflict manager, decision maker, comprehensive listener, time manager and positive attitude.
• Fulfill the roles of facilitator, coach, mentor, counselor and communicator.
• Computer skills and the ability to advance those skills as required.

• Demonstrate overall experience in electrical and mechanical maintenance and repairs. Demonstrate expertise in a specific engineering field.
• Demonstrate the ability to troubleshoot electrical and mechanical problems causing…