Maintenance Engineer (Electrical)

About the position

This opportunity is in Woodburn, Indiana in Michelin's BF Goodrich Tire Plant (BFG4). Woodburn is a small town located about 30 mins east of Fort Wayne, IN. Fort Wayne is the cultural and economic center of northeastern Indiana, and the second largest city in Indiana. Established in 1961, our Plant makes passenger and light truck tires. We have an immediate opening in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a Maintenance Engineer who will be responsible for providing electrical support for maintaining the machines and equipment in their area of responsibility. The Maintenance Engineer works closely with the methods and reliability teams, breakdown engineers, and maintenance crews.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that maintenance work is performed in compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Optimize maintenance plans in terms of frequency, quality, and time spent.
• Monitor the effectiveness of machine interventions in order to prevent breakdowns, make sure that spare parts are available and keep production on line.
• Improve rate and duration of breakdowns and preventive stop times and help improve cycle time rate consistent with the objectives of the shop and each machine.
• Confirm efficiency of machine interventions, as to resources used, consumption of spare parts, and sustained energy efficiency of equipment.
• Support the shop’s day to day operations.
• Application of Total Process Control (MTP) standards by the maintenance respected, especially concerning locks and unlocking procedures.
• Analyze and provide information about the life of equipment, especially as to reliability, quality and efficiency.
• Become a technical expert of equipment with the ability to coach troubleshooters and maintainers’ scheduled work, including training on technical interventions, ensuring the application of maintenance methods, promoting the use of standard problem solving, maintaining the conformity of the equipment, and updating technical drawings and information.

Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (preferred), or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years industrial maintenance experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact in a professional manner with external partners, suppliers, customers, and colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Strong teamwork, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office® Suite and ability to become proficient in internal software systems.
• Demonstrated ability to use software systems for data mining and data analysis.
• Experience in CAD software (Solidworks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD).
• Previous utilization of CMMS system for maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Attention to detail, data accuracy.

Benefits

• Career advancement through various options, including skill and career development, training, career exploration and work with cross-functional teams.
• Possibility of a varied and fulfilling career path in an environment where unique contributions are valued.
• Participation in 10 Business Resource Groups (BRGs) which support business strategies and initiatives along with meeting the needs of members.
• Cross-cultural support, career management resources and opportunities for community involvement.