Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

michelinhr; Woodburn (IN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Michelin's Woodburn, Indiana tire plant seeks a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to provide mechanical technical support for maintaining machines and equipment in your area of responsibility. You will collaborate with methods and reliability teams, breakdown engineers, and maintenance crews to keep production running.

You will drive safety and quality compliance, optimize maintenance plans, monitor interventions for energy efficiency, and coach troubleshooters with standard problem solving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of industrial maintenance experience.
• Ability to interact professionally with external partners, suppliers, customers, and colleagues at all levels.
• Strong teamwork, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and data analysis tools; CAD experience preferred.
• Experience with CAD software (SolidWorks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD).
• Experience using a CMMS for maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Attention to detail and data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Ensure maintenance work complies with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Optimize maintenance plans for frequency, quality, and time spent.
• Monitor machine interventions to prevent breakdowns and keep production online.
• Improve breakdown and preventive stop times; support cycle time goals.
• Confirm efficiency of interventions, resources used, and energy efficiency of equipment.
• Support day-to-day shop operations.
• Apply Total Process Control (MTP) standards for maintenance procedures.
• Analyze equipment life for reliability, quality, and efficiency.

Skills

Industrial maintenance

Data analysis

Team leadership

Data mining

Education

B.S. in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

SolidEdge

AutoCAD

CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

This opportunity is in Woodburn, Indiana in Michelin's BF Goodrich Tire Plant (BFG4). Woodburn is a small town located about 30 mins east of Fort Wayne, IN. Fort Wayne is the cultural and economic center of northeastern Indiana, and the second largest city in Indiana. Established in 1961, our Plant makes passenger and light truck tires.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We have an immediate opening in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a Maintenance Engineer who will be responsible for providing mechanical technical support for maintaining the machines and equipment in their area of responsibility. The Maintenance Engineer works closely with the methods and reliability teams, breakdown engineers, and maintenance crews.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Ensure that maintenance work is performed in compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Optimize maintenance plans in terms of frequency, quality, and time spent.
• Monitor the effectiveness of machine interventions to prevent breakdowns, make sure that spare parts are available and keep production online.
• Improve rate and duration of breakdowns and preventive stop times and help improve cycle time rate consistent with the objectives of the shop and each machine.
• Confirm efficiency of machine interventions, as to resources used, consumption of spare parts, and sustained energy efficiency of equipment.
• Support the shop's day to day operations.
• Application of Total Process Control (MTP) standards by the maintenance respected, especially concerning locks and unlocking procedures.
• Analyze and provide information about the life of equipment, especially as to reliability, quality and efficiency.
• Become a technical expert of equipment with the ability to coach troubleshooters and maintainers' scheduled work, including training on technical interventions, ensuring the application of maintenance methods, promoting the use of standard problem solving, maintaining the conformity of the equipment, and updating technical drawings and information.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years industrial maintenance experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact in a professional manner with external partners, suppliers, customers, and colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Strong teamwork, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office® Suite and ability to become proficient in internal software systems. Demonstrated ability to use software systems for data mining and data analysis.
• Experience in CAD software (Solidworks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD).
• Previous utilization of CMMS system for maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Attention to detail, data accuracy.

Ready to Shape the Future of Innovation?

Michelin is building a world-leading manufacturer of life-changing composites and experiences. Pioneering engineered materials for more than 130 years, Michelin is uniquely positioned to make decisive contributions to human progress and a more sustainable world. Drawing on its deep know-how in polymer composite materials, Michelin is constantly innovating to manufacture high-quality tires and components for critical applications in demanding fields as varied as mobility, construction, aeronautics, low‑carbon energies and healthcare.

Why Michelin?

Career Growth : Personalized development plans, mentorship, and cross-functional opportunities. Unique career paths and opportunities for advancement.

Inclusive Culture : Thrive in a diverse, supportive environment where your competencies, contributions and behaviors are recognized. Option to join one of our Connected Communities.

Innovation-Driven : Work on projects that matter-from sustainable materials to digital transformation.

Community Impact : Be part of a company that does what's right. We use sustainable business practices while balancing the needs of our customers and communities.

Michelin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors. Consistent with these obligations, Michelin also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely hel