Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Preventative & Predictive Maintenance: Implement daily, weekly, and monthly preventative maintenance schedules for all mechanical plant assets to minimize costly production line stops.
• Troubleshooting & Emergency Repair: Diagnose complex mechanical failures across the manufacturing lineincluding conveyors, calciners, board cutters, and transfer tablesand coordinate swift, permanent repairs.
• Rotating Equipment Management: Monitor and maintain critical rotating machinery, analyzing vibrating and thermal telemetry to forecast component breakdown.
• Hydraulics & Pneumatics: Service and optimize pneumatic systems (used in board handling/stacking) and hydraulic power units (used in heavy pressing and forming).

Inventory & Resource Management

• Spare Parts Optimization: Manage critical mechanical spares inventory, ensuring immediate availability of long-lead items like specialized bearings, gearboxes, and customized cutting blades.
• Budget Alignment: Assist the Maintenance Manager in planning annual maintenance budgets, identifying cost-saving areas without compromising safety or reliability.
• Vendor & Contractor Supervision: Manage third-party mechanical contractors and technicians during routine turnarounds or complex machinery overhauls.

Safety, Systems, & Compliance

• CMMS Administration: Utilize Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to track work orders, catalog equipment history, and generate key reliability reports (MTBF/MTTR).
• EHS Standards: Strict enforcement of industrial safety standards, Lockout-Tagout (LOTO) protocols, and dust-mitigation maintenance practices unique to gypsum and stucco environments.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent technical discipline.
• Experience: 5 to 7 + years of mechanical maintenance experience in a continuous manufacturing plant. Direct experience in gypsum board, cement, plaster, or heavy building materials industries is highly preferred.

• Technical Skills:
• Hands-on proficiency with heavy industrial gearboxes, belt/screw conveyors, and pneumatic pneumatic systems.
• Expertise in reading and interpreting mechanical blueprints, fabrication drawings, and structural schematics.
• Familiarity with alignment tools, balancing instruments, and vibration analysis equipment.
• Operational Demands: Ability to work flexible shifts, handle "on-call" emergency support, and work efficiently within dusty, high-temperature manufacturing zones.
• Preferred Skills
• Working knowledge of automated machinery, PLCs, and how they interface with mechanical actuators.
• Certifications in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).