Mechanical Engineer

Essential Functions

• Provide solid leadership that lives our Core Values of : Safety, Integrity, Openness & Trust, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, and Social Responsibility.
• Be a safety leader with solid safety behaviors and demonstrated leadership. Working with others to perform against the plant site safety plan with the goal of being a zero-injury workplace.
• Lead the effort with others to maintain a clean and safe production environment.
• Assist with management of the CMMS (SAP-HANA) to assure data availability, accuracy, and integrity.
• Assist with the development, management, and maintenance of facility preventative, predictive and condition-based monitoring programs (lubrication, vibration, and thermography rounds, etc.) to minimize mechanical downtime.
• Develop, manage, and maintain a Root Cause Analysis program for both Production and Maintenance issues, including maintaining Equipment Reliability data and logs.
• Produce reports, KPI's, and presentations showing the health and improvement of the reliability programs and maintenance in general. Assist the Maintenance Manager in justifying program and asset costs.
• Contribute to improvement of work practices and execution to achieve the highest level of plant productivity and minimal mechanical downtime through training, written procedures, and maintaining equipment documentation (drawings and manuals).
• Analyze problems in the manufacturing process and provide solutions to mechanical issues through design changes and improvements to the mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and automated controls areas of the sugar beet process.
• Collaborate with other plant personnel to develop the best possible solutions.
• Participate in the maintenance budget development, to ensure the highest return on budget and asset investments based on equipment and program data.
• Identify potential for cost reduction through extended asset life, reduce labor cost, and other asset / practices-related improvement techniques.
• Work closely with the Maintenance Manager and property risk consultants to assure, applicable code compliance fire system maintenance, equipment reliability and inspections are scheduled and complete with minimal risk of mechanical or system failures.
• Ensure health and safety standards are included and adhered to in written procedures and training.
• Active involvement in the plant safety and quality effort and the assurance of all plant safety, housekeeping, regulatory, and policies within the assigned area.
• Stay current in maintenance reliability technologies and best practices through trade magazines, seminars, and facility reliability conventions.
• Lead Capital Equipment Improvement projects as needed in support of on-going Reliability and Mechanical improvements.
• Assist with on-going efforts to create and maintain equipment bill of materials (BOM).
• Other duties assigned by the Maintenance Manager.
• To be successful, this position often requires more than 40 hours per week and occasional weekend work.

Skill & Experience Requirements