Facilities Maintenance Engineer

Brembo North America; Homer (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Brembo North America seeks a facilities maintenance leader to oversee the technical condition and environmental control of a defined area. You will supervise new equipment installation, define spare parts stocks, and prepare lubrication and preventive maintenance plans with daily inspections and routine work orders.

You will collaborate with HSE and plant management, analyze downtime causes, and lead root-cause analyses and Kaizen events to improve reliability, safety, and cost efficiency across

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing facility data to detect deviations and impact on uptime.
• Ability to perform root causes analyses and drive corrective actions.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement programs (Kaizen) in manufacturing or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Own technical condition and environment of the assigned area and supervise equipment installations.
• Prepare and implement lubrication and preventive maintenance plans; schedule inspections.
• Coordinate spare parts stocks, maintenance budgets, and supplier interactions to improve costs and parts availability.
• Lead root cause analyses and Kaizen events; guide technicians and operators on best practices.

Skills

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Kaizen

Preventive maintenance

Job description

• Guarantees the management of data detecting and analyzing activity concerning facilities with particular attention to damages/stops.
• Analyzes faciltity operations and eventual deviations, searching for causes and planning interventions suggesting eventual solutions in order to promote continuous improvement
• Data analysis and statistical influence to determine damage diagnostics
• Guarantees the detection of causes, types, frequency, costs of maintenance interventions for a damages diagnostics, analyzing the acquired data and processing them in statistic form to suggest improving actions
• Ensures the updating of preventative maintenance plans
• Contributes to the spare-parts warehouse management, planning, purchasing times, costs, stock levels and strategic importance
• Ensures the control of Maintenance costs, according to his area budget
• Defines benchmarks concerning maintenance control index/parameters and establish referring report.
• Works with purchasing department to search externally for the right suppliers to improve costs, timing, and availability of spare parts.
• Guarantees the analysis of facility operations and eventual deviations, searching for causes and planning interventions suggesting eventual solutions in order to promote continuous improving.

C. Solves Operational Problems:

• Investigates machine downtime and determines what intervention is needed.
• Ensures the correct management of operational deviation.
• Designing and modifying parts in order to promote continuous improvement
• Detects causes, types frequency, costs of maintenance interventions for damage diagnostics
• Guarantees the correct mechanical and electric operations of the facility as well as the efficiency of the scheduled preventive and ordinary maintenance, through a correct planning of interventions
• Works with plant HSE Manager to monitor safety and environmental risks and informs the plant manager of any new or previously unknown risks.

D. Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the technical condition and environment of their assigned area
• Supervises Installation of new equipment in their assigned area
• Defines spare parts stocks level in their assigned area
• Prepares lubrication plans and their implementation
• Prepares daily inspection PM’s
• Prepares of preventative maintenance plans
• Creates instructions for routine maintenance—Running inspections
• Develops the preventive and routine plans and spare parts lists.
• Ensures optimum facility operating conditions / parameters.
• Organizes works for maintenance shutdowns, to avoid downtime
• Performs Commissioning/Test/Startup after preventive or routine works
• Works with team leaders and technicians in solving problems
• Coordinates third parties and contractors
• Analyzes the failure modes and reporting
• Understands and diagnoses complex problems and executes corrective actions
• Keeps up with the documentation of equipment and spare parts.
• Keeps contact with machine suppliers and builds strong relationships with Machine suppliers and OEMs
• Introduces internal training for technicians and operators regarding facilities
• Leads or is however involved in Root Cause analysis or Kaizen events.