Talascend is currently seeking a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer for a direct hire opportunity with our client in Calvert, Alabama.
Overview
This position focuses on maintenance strategy and Equipment Maintenance Plan management, including ownership of the maintenance planning process, monthly review of time-based maintenance activities, and leadership of preventive maintenance reviews. The role supports equipment reliability improvements, reduction of unplanned downtime, elimination of repeat failures, and continuous improvement of maintenance plans and strategies.
Responsibilities
- Own the Equipment Maintenance Plan process, ensuring maintenance strategies are developed, documented, implemented, reviewed, and continuously improved.
- Lead the periodic review and optimization of preventive maintenance, time-based maintenance, and other maintenance activities to ensure tasks, frequencies, scopes, and resources remain technically justified and effective.
- Coordinate and facilitate monthly time-based maintenance and maintenance strategy reviews with reliability, maintenance, planning, operations, and other technical stakeholders.
- Develop, review, and improve technically based maintenance strategies for critical equipment using equipment criticality, failure history, failure modes, maintenance history, inspection findings, and equipment performance data.
- Own, maintain, and update maintenance and reliability key performance indicators related to Equipment Maintenance Plans, time-based maintenance, preventive maintenance compliance, maintenance strategy effectiveness, and other assigned reliability processes.
- Analyze equipment failures, downtime, maintenance history, preventive maintenance performance, costs, and other key performance indicators to identify trends, problem equipment, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Prepare, consolidate, and present maintenance and reliability performance, key performance indicator results, plan status, trends, findings, and improvement opportunities to leadership and other stakeholders.
- Maintain and standardize maintenance plans, maintenance strategies, preventive maintenance requirements, technical recommendations, and supporting documentation.
- Lead periodic reviews of maintenance plans with equipment owners and technical specialists to validate maintenance requirements and incorporate equipment modifications, operating experience, failure learnings, inspection findings, and new technical information.
- Track maintenance and reliability improvement actions, ensuring clear ownership, proper documentation, timely follow-up, and effective closure of identified gaps and recommendations.
- Support root cause failure analysis and other structured problem-solving activities by reviewing findings and ensuring applicable corrective actions and lessons learned are incorporated into maintenance plans and strategies.
- Support the development, standardization, and continuous improvement of maintenance and reliability processes, procedures, standards, key performance indicators, and reporting practices.
- Provide hands-on technical support during equipment breakdowns, outages, and other critical operational events.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
- At least five years of engineering experience in a heavy industrial or highly automated manufacturing environment, including maintenance and reliability engineering experience.
- Experience troubleshooting complex industrial equipment and systems.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, schematics, equipment specifications, and technical documentation.
- Strong technical knowledge of industrial mechanical and/or electrical equipment and systems.
- Experience identifying equipment failure causes and implementing sustainable corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience with root cause failure analysis, cause mapping, Kaizen, or other structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Working knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance principles and maintenance strategy development.
- Proficiency in collecting, analyzing, and presenting equipment performance data to support reliability improvements and technical decision-making.
- Proficiency in developing and communicating technical reports, proposals, scopes of work, and recommendations to multiple levels of an organization.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, Excel, Teams, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders across maintenance, reliability, operations, and other supporting teams.
- Strong analytical, organizational, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to facilitate and lead maintenance strategy and reliability meetings efficiently and effectively.
- Strong attention to detail in maintaining technical documentation, maintenance plans, and action tracking.
- Ability to analyze maintenance and equipment performance data and translate findings into clear recommendations and improvement opportunities.
- Strong ownership and accountability, with the ability to coordinate stakeholders and drive agreed actions to completion.
- Ability to communicate and present maintenance performance, findings, and recommendations to different levels of an organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Steel hot rolling or similar heavy industrial manufacturing experience.
- Experience with predictive maintenance and condition monitoring technologies, including vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, oil analysis, motor circuit analysis, or other predictive maintenance technologies.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD and/or SolidWorks.
- Working knowledge of SAP or other computerized maintenance management system platforms.
- Proficiency with Power BI or other data visualization tools.
- Experience leading and/or supporting equipment reliability improvement projects.
- Experience supporting major mill outages, commissioning activities, and equipment startups.
- Experience supporting capital improvement projects, including technical evaluations, equipment modifications, installation, and commissioning.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Military connected talent encouraged to apply.