Maintenance Mechanical Engineer - Manufacturing Plant Maintenance

Arrow Specialties USA, LLC•Richmond, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer leads mechanical engineering support for plant issues affecting production and equipment performance over the short and medium term. The role serves as the technical expert for resolving equipment-based and repair-technique-based issues that affect facility availability and maintainability. The engineer provides subject matter expertise during equipment-failure and root-cause investigations, supports Mechanical Integrity Quality Assurance, contributes maintenance input to projects and turnarounds, and performs regular field assessments of mechanical equipment. The position is based at the Spruance Manufacturing Plant in Richmond, Virginia, and reports to the Spruance Maintenance Technical Leader in support of Continuous Manufacturing Maintenance / Reliability. It is a full-time, salaried exempt role with an annual bonus incentive, scheduled for days with possible on-call troubleshooting. The engineer supports mechanical equipment, failure analysis and reliability, maintenance procedures and work quality, projects and turnarounds, and continuous improvement. The role works with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, suppliers, and subject matter experts to develop sound repair strategies, corrective actions, work scopes, and equipment improvements. Success means resolving equipment issues promptly, reducing repeat failures and production impacts, maintaining reliable technical records and procedures, and translating field observations and reliability data into prioritized improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
Zero to five years of manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, or related experience.
Knowledge of mechanical equipment, equipment-failure mechanisms, repair techniques, and maintainability principles.
Skill in creating and reviewing technical procedures, Standard Practices, Standard Operating Procedures, job procedures, and checklists.
Working knowledge of SAP, including bill-of-material improvement, and other maintenance information systems.
Knowledge of risk-assessment principles, root-cause analysis, scope development, and economic-evaluation tools.
Knowledge of maintenance work processes, reliability networks, maintenance cost, asset utilization, and goal alignment.
Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, including statistical analysis and reliability modeling.
Strong field-observation, analytical, technical-writing, and cross-functional communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting mechanical equipment in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Experience using Emerson AMS for machinery health, asset monitoring, vibration, or predictive-maintenance workflows.
Experience with Lube-It or comparable lubrication-management software and lubrication reliability programs.
Experience with condition-monitoring, vibration analysis, oil analysis, ultrasound, infrared thermography, or other predictive and reliability programs.
Experience translating reliability-program findings into work orders, equipment strategies, corrective actions, and measurable performance improvements.

Responsibilities

Provide mechanical engineering support for plant issues affecting production, equipment availability, and maintainability.
Serve as the technical authority for mechanical equipment failures, repair methods, and restoration strategies.
Perform regular field assessments of mechanical equipment and translate observations into corrective actions, work scopes, or reliability improvements.
Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts to define work scopes, evaluate options, and drive practical solutions.
Participate as a subject matter expert in equipment-failure and repair-technique root-cause investigations.
Apply root-cause analysis, risk-assessment principles, reliability engineering principles, statistical analysis, and reliability modeling as appropriate.
Provide input to the Reliability Bad Actors List and help prioritize corrective actions based on risk, production impact, cost, and asset utilization.
Use maintenance and condition-monitoring information to identify recurring failure patterns and improve equipment strategies.
Provide input to the Mechanical Integrity Quality Assurance process and support compliance with applicable mechanical integrity requirements.
Develop and sustain the maintenance procedure-use approach for mechanical work.
Perform technical reviews of maintenance procedures, Standard Practices, and Standard Operating Procedures.
Serve as a technical resource during procedure creation and revision; create and review job procedures and checklists.
Initiate the applicable Management of Change process when mechanical procedures, repair methods, equipment configurations, or technical requirements change.
Define clear scopes of work and provide technical direction supporting safe, repeatable, high-quality maintenance execution.
Provide maintenance input to project activities and serve as the maintenance representative for capital projects involving mechanical equipment.
Develop turnaround scopes and support turnaround planning, execution, and closeout activities.
Use economic-evaluation tools to compare repair, replacement, and improvement options.
Improve bills of material and equipment information in SAP to support planning, maintenance, and reliability.
Align mechanical maintenance recommendations with site maintenance goals, cost expectations, asset-utilization objectives, and the Arclin Maintenance Work Process.
Work collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and suppliers to understand issues and drive solutions.