The role of maintenance engineering function is more tactical in nature, for example, ensuring that the assets within a plant meet the present demands of the company. Where the reliability engineer is
looking at the long-term reliability needs, the maintenance engineer is handling the day-to-day reliability responsibilities.
Responsibilities of Position
- Identify, initiate, coordinate, and complete tactical maintenance and process improvement opportunities
- Technical support of operations or maintenance in assigned area, for example, trouble- shooting, turnaround scoping, spares management, and so on
- On new projects, assist project engineering with development and implementation of control plans, that is, criticality, preventive maintenance plan, spares, quality, maintainability, and operability
- On existing assets, perform periodic reviews and upgrade and modify control plans
- Communicates with reliability engineering to ensure long-term operations and maintenance asset problems are appropriately investigated with solutions implemented
- Assist operations or maintenance management with department budgeting and expenditure forecasting
- Continuously track and evaluate operations or maintenance expenditures, for example, cost and labor-hours to ensure effective resource utilization
- Facilitate positive change in the maintenance organization by proactively leading department initiatives. Act as a change agent in implementing cross-functional plant business objectives
- Generate the maintenance reports for area of responsibility
- Completions of environmental health and safety (EHS) tasks, including excavation permits, preliminary hazard analysis (PHA), and the like
- Develop, implement, and survey best practices within area of responsibility, that is preventive maintenance practices, operating methods, and the like
- Review major purchases to assure correct specifications and design
- Initiate, develop, and review capital improvement projects
- Generate the monthly maintenance report for area of responsibility
- Backup for maintenance supervisor
- Other duties and projects as assigned