At a Glance
- Tasks: Enhance equipment reliability and performance in a hands-on engineering role.
- Company: Dynamic manufacturing facility focused on innovation and improvement.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, quarterly bonuses, relocation assistance, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for continuous improvement and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by improving critical manufacturing processes and equipment reliability.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and 3-5 years of relevant experience.
The predicted salary is between 83000 - 115000 £ per year.
Job Description
Mechanical Engineer – Maintenance
Location: Salisbury, NC
Schedule: Full-Time | Day Shift | Monday–Friday
Salary: $83,000–$115,000
Bonus: Quarterly Cash Bonus Program
Relocation Assistance Available
Improve Equipment Reliability in a High-Impact Manufacturing Role
We are seeking a hands-on Reliability Engineer to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance programs at a specialized metals manufacturing facility.
This position is ideal for a Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or experienced Maintenance Supervisor who can combine maintenance planning with hands-on equipment troubleshooting.
You will spend significant time on the production floor working directly with maintenance, operations, and plant leadership to improve the reliability of furnaces, presses, material-handling equipment, and other critical manufacturing assets.
This is not a strictly office-based engineering position.
The successful candidate must be comfortable investigating equipment failures firsthand, developing long-term maintenance strategies, and helping execute practical solutions.
- What You’ll Do
- Evaluate plant equipment and identify opportunities to improve reliability, availability, and throughput
- Develop, document, and improve preventive maintenance programs
- Help transition the facility from preventive maintenance toward predictive maintenance
- Investigate chronic equipment failures and recurring production delays
- Perform root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans
- Troubleshoot mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and process equipment
- Support production during unplanned equipment downtime
- Develop maintenance schedules for repairs, shutdowns, equipment replacements, and upgrades
- Create and update preventive maintenance tasks, work orders, equipment assets, and inspections within the CMMS
- Maintain a critical spare-parts inventory
- Analyze equipment performance, downtime, maintenance, and failure data
- Prepare equipment failure reports and determine the impact of corrective actions
- Develop cost justifications for equipment upgrades and reliability improvement projects
- Support capital projects and major maintenance activities
- Assist with process engineering and project engineering assignments
- Coordinate outside contractors and service providers
- Help develop standard operating procedures for maintenance activities
- Monitor maintenance spending and support departmental budget goals
- Recommend equipment modifications that improve safety, reliability, quality, and productivity
- Lead or participate in continuous improvement initiatives
- Develop performance metrics that support long-term equipment reliability
- Work closely with maintenance technicians, production employees, engineers, and operations leadership
- Must-Have Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline
- At least 3–5 years of relevant engineering or industrial maintenance experience
- Maintenance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Maintenance Supervisor experience
- Hands-on mechanical troubleshooting experience
- Experience developing or improving preventive maintenance programs
- Experience supporting predictive maintenance initiatives
- Strong understanding of industrial production equipment
- Root Cause Analysis experience
- Ability to balance maintenance planning with hands-on plant-floor support
- Strong mechanical aptitude
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working independently in a small manufacturing facility
- Preferred Qualifications
- Mechanical Engineering degree
- Five or more years of reliability or maintenance engineering experience
- Metals, foundry, aerospace, forging, casting, or heavy manufacturing experience
- Experience with furnaces, presses, hydraulic equipment, or thermal-processing systems
- FMEA experience
- Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing experience
- Predictive maintenance program implementation
- Capital project management
- Maintenance budgeting and cost control
- Experience developing equipment reliability metrics
- Solid Works experience
- Auto CAD experience
- CMMS experience
- Equipment and Systems
The Reliability Engineer may support equipment including
- Industrial furnaces
- Melting and thermal-processing equipment
- Hydraulic presses
- Pneumatic systems
- Pumps and motors
- Gearboxes and bearings
- Cooling systems
- Material-handling equipment
- Production machinery
- Mechanical drive systems
- Plant utilities and supporting equipment
- What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will help the plant
- Reduce unplanned equipment downtime
- Improve furnace and press availability
- Strengthen preventive maintenance execution
- Introduce additional predictive maintenance practices
- Improve maintenance planning and scheduling
- Identify and eliminate recurring equipment failures
- Improve critical spare-parts management
- Increase production reliability and equipment throughput
- Build sustainable maintenance systems rather than relying on reactive repairs
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