Maintenance Engineer

Unilever • Hammond, IN

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About The Position

The role of a Maintenance Engineer professional is crucial for ensuring the smooth operation of an organization's assets. The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability and continuous improvement of factory equipment and assets. As the PM (Professional Maintenance) Pillar Co-Leader under the Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS) methodology, this role drives the implementation of Professional Maintenance strategies, develops autonomous maintenance capabilities, and leads cross-functional teams to eliminate equipment losses and breakdowns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering or other STEM related field.
• 3+ years of experience in maintenance engineering within a manufacturing environment.
• Experienced with continuous improvement or lean manufacturing principles.
• Excellent analytical, leadership, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Certification in Reliability Engineering or Maintenance Management is a plus.
• Proficiency in CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems).
• 5+ years of engineering experience within an FMCG/CPG manufacturing facility supporting continuous improvement or equipment reliability initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planning & Execution Work with site planners to ensure short and long-term plan of maintenance activities to minimize downtime.
• Coordinate the required downtime with the operations team to ensure downtimes are incorporated in the production plan.
• Organization of the work orders execution, ensuring alignment among production, planners and front-line managers of respective areas on the prioritization and execution of the plan.
• Assisting in the development and management of the maintenance budget by forecasting costs for maintenance activities and providing technical inputs to build the spare parts inventory plan.
• Support spare parts inventory analysis and actions with respective teams (procurement, storekeeper, Maintenance experts) to ensure spare part strategy for the site.
• Responsible for the asset health assessment and criticality analysis for the plant and build strategy for replacement.
• Control the maintenance activities during planned maintenance or overhauls.
• Analyzing maintenance data to identify trends and areas for improvement in maintenance strategies and equipment performance.
• Ensure execution of condition-based inspections and reliability measurements (examples: vibration, oil analysis, lubrication plan, thermography, etc.)
• Support the execution of actions from EWO related to improving or creating PM program.
• Coordinate the activities for running failure mode and effect analysis for critical assets and revise respective maintenance planning per the output of the analysis (Condition based monitoring or Predictive based monitoring).
• Management of Change approver for new parts and standard maintenance procedures (SMPs)
• Monitor and report that proper documentation of maintenance activities are being done by planners in the CMMS system.
• Ownership of CMMS system
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
• Lead risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies for critical equipment.
• Responsible for keeping track of all safety and legal inspections required for the critical assets.
• Collaborate with production and quality teams to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• The maintenance engineer will input on the analysis of key losses with the expertise on techniques that can be utilized to improve reliability.
• Support Autonomous Maintenance (AM) teams with training and technical guidance.
• Co-Lead the deployment of the PM Pillar across the factory, aligned with UMS methodology.
• Develop and maintain PM Master Plans, including equipment classification, criticality analysis, and maintenance standards.
• Facilitate PM audits and track progress against UMS milestones.
• Train and coach teams on PM tools (e.g., FMEA, MTBF/MTTR analysis, Lubrication Standards, Maintenance Prevention).

Benefits

• Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level