Facilities Engineer

kaisercareers; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Aluminum is seeking an onsite Facilities Engineer in Kalamazoo, MI to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could impact plant operations. You will collaborate with maintenance, engineering, and external partners to ensure reliability of critical systems such as Water Cooling, HVAC, and Fire suppression.

Requirements include a Bachelor's in Engineering or 5+ years of facility systems experience; Master Electrician is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field or a minimum of five (5) years of experience with industrial facility systems is required.
• Master Electrician License a plus.
• Working PC skills including Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point, AutoCAD, Maximo.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could affect plant or business operations.
• Work with maintenance, engineering, and 3rd parties to ensure reliability and maintainability of installations (Water Cooling, HVAC, Compressed Air, Fire suppression, etc).
• Develop solutions to reduce losses from repetitive failures affecting plant operations (capacity, quality, cost, regulatory compliance).
• Apply RCA/RCFA and FRACAS to investigate failures and implement corrective actions.
• Analyze asset performance (utilization, remaining useful life, operating costs) and monitor assets.
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace and buy/ make decisions.
• Track utility spend with CI mindset for plant cost reductions and provide on-site training.

Skills

Windows

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

AutoCAD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

5+ years experience with industrial facility systems

Tools

Maximo

Job description

The Facilities Engineer identifies and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.

This is an onsite position. At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, either now or in the future. Therefore, we cannot move forward with candidates who would require sponsorship and or are on (e.g., H-1B, F-1, STEM OPT, OPT) visas.

The primary role of the FacilitiesEngineer is to identify and manage risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.

What you will work on:

• Work with maintenance, engineering, and 3rd parties to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations for facility equipment including but not limited to:
• Water Cooling Systems
• Compressed Air System
• Facility cement work
• Hot Bag House
• HVAC
• Fire suppression systems
• Environmental requirements
• Plant Electrical distribution and efficiencies
• Other Facilities or shared resource related equipment
• Develop solutions to reduce losses from repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
• To fulfill the responsibility listed above, this position shall apply:
• Root-Cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA)
• Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Analyze asset system performance to include:
• Asset utilization
• Remaining useful life
• Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability, and costs of assets
• Develop and monitor asset
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/re-design, and make/buy decisions
• Track utility spend with CI mindset for overall plant cost reductions opportunities
• Provide documentation and on site training for maintenance and engineering personnel.

Relationships

• Report to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager
• Maintenance department and 3rd party resources to be utilized

What you will bring to the role:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical field, OR a minimum of five (5) years of experience working with industrial facility systems is required
• Master Electrician License a plus
• Working PC skills including Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point, AutoCAD, Maximo
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to define, collect, and analyze data

No third-party candidate submissions are being accepted at this time for this opening.

About Kaiser Aluminum: Talented people join our team because we are a company passionate about environmental sustainability, employee growth, contributing back to our communities and championing a diverse and inclusive culture. We are strongly committed to expanding inclusion, equity, and diversity – how we hire, develop, and inspire our diverse team members that reflects and relates to the increasingly multicultural community.