Senior Maintenance Engineer

Round-Peg Solutions (RPS); Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace manufacturer in California is seeking a Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Engineer to maintain CNC mills and high tolerance grinding machines. This role involves diagnosing mechanical and electrical faults, programming PLC systems, and driving reliability improvements. The ideal candidate will have extensive CNC experience, strong mechanical expertise, and the ability to mentor others. Competitive compensation and a supportive work environment are offered by a globally recognized company dedicated to engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience maintaining CNC machines and high tolerance grinding equipment.
• Strong mechanical expertise across spindles, bearings, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
• Proven electrical and controls capability including servo systems and industrial diagnostics.
• Hands on PLC troubleshooting and modification on major platforms like Fanuc, Siemens, or Allen-Bradley.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced preventive and corrective maintenance on CNC mills and lathes.
• Lead mechanical fault diagnosis and troubleshoot electrical faults.
• Drive root cause analysis to implement reliability improvements.
• Programming and fault finding PLC systems including ladder logic, HMIs, backups and recovery.
• Driving root cause analysis and implementing long term reliability improvements to reduce downtime.

Skills

Mechanical fault diagnosis

Electrical troubleshooting

PLC programming

Root cause analysis

Mentoring

Tools

Fanuc

Siemens

Allen Bradley

Job description

Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Engineer

Location: Chatsworth, CA

Are you an experienced Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Engineer looking to lead uptime and precision in a world class manufacturing environment? Do you thrive on solving complex mechanical electrical and PLC challenges on advanced CNC and grinding equipment? Are you motivated by working alongside highly skilled engineers in a close knit and supportive team? If so, this opportunity may be the right next step for you.

This organisation is a world renowned aerospace manufacturer with over 80 years of heritage. They support some of the best engineers in the industry and are known for their strong working culture collaborative teams and long term investment in people and technology.

The Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Engineer will play a critical role in maximising machine availability and maintaining extreme precision across a fleet of CNC mills lathes and high tolerance grinding machines. You will act as the technical authority for complex faults reliability improvements and calibration standards in a demanding precision environment.

As the Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Engineer (CNC Lathes and High Tolerance Grinding) your responsibilities will include

• Delivering advanced preventive predictive and corrective maintenance on CNC mills lathes and high tolerance grinding machines
• Leading mechanical fault diagnosis including alignment vibration spindle issues backlash and thermal growth
• Troubleshooting electrical and controls faults across servo drives motors encoders wiring and power systems
• Programming and fault finding PLC systems including ladder logic HMIs backups and recovery
• Driving root cause analysis and implementing long term reliability improvements to reduce downtime

As the Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Engineer (CNC Lathes and High Tolerance Grinding) you will bring

• Extensive experience maintaining CNC machines and high tolerance grinding equipment in a precision environment
• Strong mechanical expertise across spindles bearings hydraulics pneumatics and precision metrology
• Proven electrical and controls capability including servo systems drives and industrial diagnostics
• Hands on PLC troubleshooting and modification experience on Fanuc Siemens or Allen Bradley platforms
• The ability to work autonomously mentor others and communicate clearly with production and engineering teams

This Senior Mechanical and Electrical Machine Maintenance Enginee role offers a competitive salary alongside the opportunity to work within a close knit team that values expertise collaboration and long term careers. You will be supported by an established aerospace business with global recognition a strong engineering pedigree and continued investment in advanced manufacturing capability.

All successful applicants will be contacted within two working days.