Staff Facilities Mechanical Engineer

STERIS Corporation•Sanford, NC

5d•$124,738 - $161,425

About The Position

The Staff Facilities Mechanical Engineer serves as the site's technical leader for mechanical reliability, plant utilities, maintenance excellence, and asset performance. The role provides technical leadership across rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, HVAC, boilers, steam, chilled-water, compressed-air, hydraulic, pneumatic, and related facility and manufacturing systems. The position drives equipment uptime, reliability, predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, energy and cost reduction, and continuous improvement while supporting safe and compliant operations. The engineer develops long-term mechanical asset replacement and capital improvement plans, supports capital projects from concept through turnover, and partners with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, Maintenance, Procurement, contractors, equipment suppliers, and external service providers. The successful candidate applies reliability tools, project-management practices, data, and engineering best practices to improve lifecycle performance, workforce capability, production continuity, and facility readiness. This position requires domestic travel of up to 50%.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
20+ years of facilities, mechanical, utility, reliability, maintenance, plant, or manufacturing engineering experience.
10+ years of experience in mechanical facilities, plant utilities, reliability, maintenance, or manufacturing engineering in manufacturing or regulated operations.
10+ years of experience with rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, HVAC, boilers, steam, chilled water, compressed air, hydraulic, pneumatic, and related mechanical systems.
10+ years of experience in reliability engineering and predictive maintenance using RCM, RCFA, FMEA, vibration analysis, condition monitoring, MTBF, and MTTR.
10+ years of experience in capital project scope development, technical design review, budgeting, scheduling, vendor and contractor coordination, commissioning, startup, and turnover.
10+ years of experience managing multiple cross-functional engineering initiatives involving scope, schedule, budget, risk, procurement, construction, and stakeholder communication.

Nice To Haves

15+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, food and beverage, semiconductor, automotive, chemical, life-sciences, healthcare, FDA-regulated, ISO-certified, or advanced manufacturing operations.
15+ years of experience with building automation, Industrial IoT, smart sensors, predictive analytics, CMMS, energy reduction, or asset performance management programs.
Professional Engineer, CRE, CMRP, PMP, Certified Energy Manager, or Six Sigma certification.
10+ years of experience demonstrating strong technical judgment, complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, project planning, capital project support, contractor management, vendor evaluation, risk management, and communication.
10+ years of experience reading and interpreting mechanical drawings, P&IDs, specifications, sequences of operation, equipment manuals, utility diagrams, bid packages, codes, and standards.

Responsibilities

Leads mechanical facilities engineering support for manufacturing equipment and plant utility systems, including rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, gearboxes, conveyors, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, boilers, steam, chilled water, compressed air, HVAC, water treatment, air-handling units, filtration, humidification, dehumidification, exhaust, make-up air, and pressure-control systems.
Develops, leads, and sustains the site's Mechanical Reliability Excellence program, creating and executing reliability strategies for critical assets using preventive, predictive, condition-based, and reliability-centered maintenance.
Leads troubleshooting, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), FMEA, Weibull analysis, vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and asset-criticality assessments for complex mechanical and utility-system issues.
Develops plant utility and HVAC infrastructure strategies, standards, specifications, capacity plans, reliability plans, energy-efficiency initiatives, and lifecycle recommendations.
Leads and supports capital projects, including business justification, scope, cost estimates, schedules, resource plans, technical requirements, risk assessments, design and vendor-proposal reviews, procurement, construction, shutdowns, installation, commissioning, startup, qualification, turnover, and closeout.
Manages multiple engineering projects and priorities to scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, and operational requirements; coordinates cross-functional groups, contractors, suppliers, and external partners and communicates status, risks, decisions, and recovery plans.
Evaluates and deploys Industry 4.0 technologies, Industrial IoT solutions, smart sensors, condition monitoring, predictive analytics, building automation, and asset performance management tools; tracks reliability, availability, utility-efficiency, and maintenance metrics and costs.
Ensures work complies with applicable safety, environmental, quality, engineering, and regulatory requirements, including OSHA, EPA, ASME, NFPA, ISO 14644, ISO 9001, ISO 13485, and applicable codes.
Provides technical coaching and reliability best-practice training to engineers, maintenance personnel, contractors, and cross-functional teams.